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Does anyone have a recomendation for a furniture repair place in DC? I have three oak kitchen/dinning chairs with seats that need re-caining, and I have no idea who'd do this - is it something any repair place would do? Any idea how much it would cost? Is it something I can do myself? Thanks!

A few days agom AT has a post on recycled glass tiles, which inspired me to want to get a kitchen backsplash made from it. Does anyone know of a good source for recycled glass tiles in the New York City area?

Random question...I have some 4x6 picture frames that didn't' come with hanging hooks. They're not wood so I can't screw the normal wire kind into them. Do you know if anyone makes adhesive hooks for hanging?

Thanks!

Rosie,
Re-caning chairs can be DIY or complex depending on the original type of caning. There are basically two types:

Pre-woven cane - I consider to be the potential DIY type. Visit http://vandykes.resultspage.com/search?w=cane&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search Van Dykes has a section illustrating various cane styles and the supplies to repair this type of seat. You will need to research the exact procedures for doing this. A furniture restoration business may also be able to do this for you.

Woven on the seat cane is IMHO more complex to repair. I once took a workshop on this and decided it was not for me. It involves long strands of cane which much be pre-soaked and carefully woven strand by strand to recreate the original patter. This is quite labor intensive and could become expensive.

I think??? the woven on the seat cane chairs can be converted to use pre-woven cane but you would want to check with a restoration person before trying this at home.

WELCOME MR. GREEN! ;-)

Yeah, I gotta say, I kinda like MrGreen.

New Question for AT: I have been a long time lurker of this website and could really use all of the readers advice. My boss is going to visit New York for the first time ever...She also just so happens to have recently purchased a McMansion here in SoCal that is totally devoid of furniture and style, unless you count the drapes the old owners left behind. I would love to give her a few super cool places she could visit. Maybe she could pick up a few pieces while she is there.

If you could only pick one place to visit for home decor in NYC where would it be?

gardenjen1234 :

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THANK YOU Patrick, this is just what I was looking for.

Thanks, elizabeth in AL & curtis.

elizabeth in AL, did you find that odor.

The reason I think it might be a mouse is because it is a rotten-fruit sweet smell when a rodent decays. I had dinner at a friend's house in the country and we ate in the kitchen. I smelled gas but we couldn't find a leak so we called the gas company and they found and fixed it. But I still smelled gas! But it wasn't sulphery, it was like a sweet rotten smell, but nasty. Eventually we found a mouse that had crawled back behind the control panel of the stove and died, it was fairly dried out by then. I had been sitting just a couple of feet from it.

So you may have a dead mouse stuck somewhere.

yuck. well....i guess we'll find that out soon because my lazy good for nothin landlord is FINALLY getting me an oven after almost 5 months of a non-working one in the NEW APARTMENT. you guys were right - i should have moved out but there's nothing i can do about it now. unless he doesn't give me the oven that i finally got him to set a date for - then i would assume that the lease was broken the second he said that i had a working oven and i didn't...? I sure hope there's not a dead mouse back there. that would wig me out. and i'd be p-ed at my cat. she eats only moths and no other bugs or creatures.