{"id":4561,"date":"2009-05-02T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/05\/02\/new-things-and-new-places-for-the-old\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T17:32:16","slug":"new-things-and-new-places-for-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/05\/02\/new-things-and-new-places-for-the-old\/","title":{"rendered":"New Things (and New Places for the Old&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working for\/with\/on the house isn&#039;t always blood, sweat and tears (although it does often seem to be the case). Sometimes, a new-to-you (not-as-new-to-us-anymore) MCM house can mean fun with new furnishings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bedroom: We&#039;d been without a dresser for some time and we knew that our older, walnut De La Espada stuff (bed and side table) would be tough (and\/or insanely expensive) to match, if only because of the fading\/patina of the wood, so we decided to go an entirely different route (somewhat). De La Espada makes a line called Atlantico and we picked up a &quot;coordinating&quot; (oak) dresser from John at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.areasanfrancisco.com\/\">AREA<\/a> in San Francisco. There&#039;s a few places in town to find this line, but John is much more affable than most and an overall joy to work with. John is also a fellow Eichler owner in Marin.<\/p>\n<p>Den: When we moved in, we knew we were going to need to get new &quot;den&quot; furniture. Our not-so-old pieces were just a bit too big for the space, although insanely comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>So, we finally ordered and received our new &quot;recliner and sofa&quot; &#8212; in our case, a Papa-Bear chair and Split-Rail settee from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernica.net\">Modernica<\/a> &#8212; ordered through Emmett at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidemodern.com\/\">Inside Modern<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; anyone need a sofa and club-chair (ad to come)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201156f71d5cd970c-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_4497\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201156f71d5cd970c \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201156f71d5cd970c-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201156f71d5f3970c-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_4499\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201156f71d5f3970c \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201156f71d5f3970c-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201157067e711970b-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_4500\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201157067e711970b \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201157067e711970b-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working for\/with\/on the house isn&#039;t always blood, sweat and tears (although it does often seem to be the case). Sometimes, a new-to-you (not-as-new-to-us-anymore) MCM house can mean fun with new furnishings&#8230; Bedroom: We&#039;d been without a dresser for some time and we knew that our older, walnut De La Espada stuff (bed and side table) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-modern-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Things (and New Places for the Old...) - Red Neck Modern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/05\/02\/new-things-and-new-places-for-the-old\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Things (and New Places for the Old...) - Red Neck Modern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Working for\/with\/on the house isn&#039;t always blood, sweat and tears (although it does often seem to be the case). 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