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Cleaning Up:  Vintage Ironing Boards  |
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TheSoapMaven
True Blue Farmgirl
691 Posts
Susan
LA
USA
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 Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 08:34:37 AM
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Does anyone still use the old wooden kind of ironing board? That is all I have ever used. Just the other day my husband says "You know, they do sell new ironing boards." Yeah, what about it? I love my old one. It was my granny's. And then just day before yesterday my sister in law calls and she has late my mother in law's old woodend one...did I want it??? YES of course I do. I just love old things. But I am going to make new covers very soon!
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 08:50:55 AM
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I have two old wooden ironing boards... and I love them. One is smaller and the other full size. The smaller one was my Great Aunts and I've had it since 1971. The larger one I picked up last year at the second day of an estate sale for half price ($5).... got a new cover for it and it's now in use too. One upstairs and one downstairs! I don't care for the new ones. They seem unbalanced to me. I think I mentioned this find in the clothesline section maybe?..... anyway...love 'em too!
****Gardener, Stitcher, Spiritual Explorer and Appreciator of all Things Natural****
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shepherdess
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Robin
Eatonville
Washington
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 09:11:11 AM
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I have several old wooden ironing boards. They are great to decorate with. I have used them for shelves and also for a table when I am doing craft shows. They are great for writing your receipts and holding your money.
Farm Girl from Western Washington
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl
1681 Posts
michele
farmingdale
n.j.
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 09:32:23 AM
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I have 2 old ironing boards. I use the one alot. The other is much smaller. I dont like the metal ones. Hopefully my daughter will use it one day. Its sturdy, I love it. Michele
"she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands". Prov. 31:13 |
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ArmyWifey
True Blue Farmgirl
712 Posts
Holly
Abilene
KS
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 10:07:50 AM
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I have one that I purchased in KS. Used to have a collection of family photos set up on it.
Varies from house to house what I do with it. I would love to have my utility room all country and have it up in the corner with a pretty vintage linen piece and my sad iron, but it won't work in this one.
Blessings,
Holly
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 11:01:55 AM
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I am still looking for one to use myself. I grew up with one until my father thought mom needed a new modern metal one that was light weight. Mom Got rid of hers and always regretted it because the metal ones are flimsey and wobbly. I find lots of great stuff around here at flee markets and garage sales but not a wooden ironing board. One day Mine will show up.
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 12:57:29 PM
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I use an old wooden ironing board and love it. I need to make a new cuter cover for it...It is so nice and sturdy..a big one.
Jenny in Utah
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ArmyWifey
True Blue Farmgirl
712 Posts
Holly
Abilene
KS
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 2:36:40 PM
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I found mine at an "Antique" type store for $10.00 Don't be afraid to shop at Antique stores......some things are pricey and some arent!
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 6:18:46 PM
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I have two and neither of them I use for ironing! One I use as a table behind my sofa and it has photos and a candlestick lamp on it. The other I am using for display like shepherdess mentioned at my recent antique sales and I have had quite a few people want to buy it, it's child sized! I would like to find another full size for my sewing/laundry room but it will have to be the magic price...under $5.00!
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 10:07:20 PM
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I have one and it's all I use. Mine is on the smaller side and sometimes I do wish it was a bit larger. I don't like the metal ones at all! I do like your ideas about using them for shelves and tables. Maybe someday...if I ever give up ironing!
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Jana
True Blue Farmgirl
482 Posts
Jana
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
USA
482 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 10:39:15 PM
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I have my mom's old wooden ironing board (She was married in 1932). Layers of old blankets are thumbtacked underneath for padding and the cover is over that. I learned to iron on that thing when I was a kid! I can't believe no one in the family wanted it when she and then dad finally passed. I grabbed it up and it is now MY ironing board.
Jana |
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KarenP
True Blue Farmgirl
666 Posts
Karen
Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jul 09 2005 : 03:47:33 AM
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Hi Jana,
I think that kind of thing is great to have as piece of your past.
I feel the same way about stuff that nobody else really cares about.
I'm still kicking myself and my husband for not taking the Hooiser cabinet that was offered to us from his grandparents!
KarenP
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luvnlife
True Blue Farmgirl
82 Posts
Michele
Quincy
WA
USA
82 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2005 : 09:49:20 AM
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This is both encouraging and enlightening. Last week my modern iron board broke a weld so I had to throw it out. But I also noticed a wooden ironing board down in the basement that had been left by the previous owners. I was just going to use it until I had the chance to purchase a new one. But from reading your emails, I think I have a treasure that had yet to be discovered hanging on the wall down stairs. I can't wait to get it cleaned up and try it out. Thanks gals!
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Jana
True Blue Farmgirl
482 Posts
Jana
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
USA
482 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2005 : 12:58:33 PM
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Wooden board addendum:
My mother's board that I posted about needed a little sprucing up, I decided, soooo.....I flipped it over and started pulling tacks out of the cover(s). The padding did seem a bit thick to me and I wanted to put on a new, scorch resistant cotton cover and fleece pad. You gals are NOT going to believe this, but I pulled off 7 ironing board covers, 3 pads (including the original woven horse hair one) and a sheet of muslin!!! I was pulling thumb tacks, linoleum tacks, carpet tacks. UNBELIEVABLE! Everything under the first 3 pads, which were the silver kind, were all scorched and just desintegrated when I pulled on them.
Finally, I cleaned off my board with some Murphy's and water and put on the new pad and cover, pulling it taught and, again, thumbtacking it neatly to the underside of the board. WONDERFUL!!! Just like new!
Jana
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littlehippiechick
Farmgirl in Training
19 Posts
Tina
Bloomsbury
Canada
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Posted - Aug 10 2005 : 11:06:49 PM
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2 years ago, we bought a 65 year old farmhouse. The wooden iroining board is hidden in a door in the kitchen and it folds out when you open the door. It's even got the original cover on it. I'm not sure how she managed to keep it like that all these years, but it's awesome! If anyone has time to build something like that in your kitchen, do it! I don't have to carry an ironing board anywhere to put it away, it's so great! I don't know why they don't make those anymore...then again I don't know why they don't make things like they used to. Guess I was born a century too late!
Tina aka little hippie chick
No man is ever worth crying over, and the one that is...won't make you cry!!! |
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Whimsy_girl
True Blue Farmgirl
576 Posts
USA
576 Posts |
Posted - Aug 10 2005 : 11:16:35 PM
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My husband always tells me I was born a century too late!! I listen to talk radio while I do housework rather than leave the tv on all day.. I just have to have that background noise!
Just the other day he told me that he could picture me dressed in the 1950's style sitting in front of the radio with the kids listening to the latest episode of superman or something.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
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littlehippiechick
Farmgirl in Training
19 Posts
Tina
Bloomsbury
Canada
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 09:08:28 AM
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Hehehe, we don't even have tv! We do have two of them, but no cable! As for peasant vision, we only have 1 channel that does work, but I haven't watched it at all. I have to be pretty bored, and well, there's too much work to be bored.
Everyone that comes to our house (including me) feels like they are in a time warp or something...I'm wearing an apron, cooking meals for 8 people all the time just in case people pop in by surprise (it's starting to happen more frequently, I think they're on to something) Some of our career-driven female friends just don't get it. I had such a good career in the city, and I left it all to be a traditional housewife. It makes me so happy, and the kids are only young once. I can always return to work when the kids are in school, work will always be there, childhood won't. I have to laugh when they say, "so what do you do all day?" HA! They think that being a homemaker I am weakened...can you beleive that! Luckily enough, my husband always pipes up and gives it to them. I left him alone with the kids when I was working part-time on the weekend evenings, and he went nuts. He always appreciates what I do, but after that, he treated me like a queen!
Wow do we ever have quite a bit in common! Do you live in an old house too? Ours is old, but the lady that lived here didn't have time to keep up with the necessary repairs. We found a true diamond in the rough. My kitchen is finally starting to take shape. It looks like 50's retro, but I'm throwing some modern lighting and stuff in too. Looks pretty cool!
Anyway, gotta go!
Take care Bobbi!
No man is ever worth crying over, and the one that is...won't make you cry!!! |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 10:08:32 AM
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Bobbi and Tina,
I too think I was borm a centruy too late! I love the 40's and 50's!!!
Tina, my boyfriend installed a built in ironing boarn in my laundry room. They still make them BUT not like they used too. It's sad....
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
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littlehippiechick
Farmgirl in Training
19 Posts
Tina
Bloomsbury
Canada
19 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 10:44:28 AM
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Hi Kim!
Yes it is sad. What's even worse, is when we went to the dump, we saw one that had been ripped out when someone was renovating their old house. My husband and I commented on what a shame it was. Some of that stuff is worth pretty good money at the auction. Tha'ts cool that your boyfriend made you one for your laundry room. They are very handy!
No man is ever worth crying over, and the one that is...won't make you cry!!! |
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Whimsy_girl
True Blue Farmgirl
576 Posts
USA
576 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 12:24:38 PM
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my house is just a 1980 split level so no it's not old enough to be old, just old enough to look weird :)We had oodles of shiny peeling weird wall paper that had to come down, and the downstairs bathroom totally looks like you took a time warp into 1978. It has weird avacado and orange gigantic swirley paisley things for wall paper and funky orangy tile.. plus the two downstairs bedrooms, one has a thick hairy avacado colored shag carpet and the other is rusty orange with giraffe looking spots raised up out of it.. thats where computer is now and it's wild down here. the stairways have that white powder coated wrought iron stuff used as a partition/stair rail and the kitchen cupboards are the darkest colored wood you can find, with gigantic brassy ornate weird handles. :)
I left a good career, a 401k and the best benefits in the city....and a bunch of VERY feminist friends.. (actually the friends sort of left me once I made my choice) to stay at home too. I remember my very best friend growing up, she called to chat with me, and I told her I had to put the phone down for a minute so I could get dinner out of the oven, and when I picked the phone back up she practically screamed in my ear "He's got you cooking for him now???" I still laugh when I think of that... It wasn't long after that when she decided I was much too "submissive" to bother with :)
My day is pretty insane too! Last night was tantrum city around here so both girls went to bed all sticky from dinner and so I did baths this morning instead. They are both napping now, so I better check the rest of the forums and get out side to do some watering and weeding :)
B.
But I'm not bitter, lol.
We do sound like we have a lot in common.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
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kellygirl
Farmgirl at Heart
9 Posts
Kelly
Chicago
IL
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2005 : 1:01:43 PM
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Hello friends. For now I am a city girl here with a country heart. I have an old ironing board and I use it for a buffet table in my dining room. I have it draped with some pretty material and when company comes I can line it up with plates and glasses or use it to serve on buffet style. I love it!!!
To Thine Ownself Be True |
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littlehippiechick
Farmgirl in Training
19 Posts
Tina
Bloomsbury
Canada
19 Posts |
Posted - Aug 12 2005 : 2:08:13 PM
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Heheheheh Bobbi!
Your house sounds pretty crazy. All I know is that by living in this house, I've grown to dislike, wallpaper, the colour green, carpet, and el-cheapo renovations. You know what they did to our poor little house? First of all, they buiklt an addition to accomodate a laundry room, which is nice, but they only did a half @$$ job at the renovations. Our plumbing work that was right out in the open in the basement, looked like waterslides of some sort. Our heating pipes are also hanging out in the open, and when we figured out where the one pipe that's out in the open, is only to heat the washroom...here's the funny part...it heats up the space under the tub. Yeah...under the tub. They didn't even bother to move the vent to heat the washroom properly. We have to open the cupboard doors to heat the loo. While I'm on the topic of our washroom, the space that they have allowed themselves to traverse across the w/r to the toilet is about 1.5 ft wide. My poor grandparents (who are large in size) and our friend in a wheelchair, cannot use the washroom! I'd really like to get a hold of the original plans for our house so we can change it back. I know for certain alot of things aren't where they are supposed to go.
Our house was all cherrywood, maple, oak hardwood floors, doors and trim. The've left the living room and dining room like that, thank goodness, but everything else they've painted puke green, or covered the floor with puke green carpets. When we renovated upsatirs, we had got some new carpet to put around the house. When we were ripping out the carpet in our bedroom and the girls bedroom...hardwood floor was underneath. 1.5 months ago, I was getting ready to stemclean the puke green carpet in our computer room/guest room, when my husband got curious and looked underneath. Surprise, more hardwood floor that was in great shape! The only thing left we have in carpet is the stairs...which by the way looks like someone had too much to drink one night and couldn't make it to the facilities in time. When we get around to it, that's next.
Since we've moved here, we have really improved this place. It's been alot of hard work, and I'm so thankful my husband is a jack of all trades, ticketed in two big ones, so that helps with be able to afford it...if only there were 48 hours in a day!
But it was the new career I chose, and it's so much fun seeing all these changes. I'm glad to hear that you have also made that change to care for your children and for your house and hubby too! My friends had the same reaction with my new lifestyle, but my parents finally understand what needed to get done. They agreed with staying home, but they didn't like the idea of moving away to the country. I had to xplain to them that the finances just wouldn't be there for us to live in the city the way we do now. My husband would never be home to see his little girls grow up, and of course some lovin!
Hope that your girls are going to behave better. We had temper night last week, off to bed they went!
Well I should get going, the little monsters have woken from their slumber! This weekend I'm going into the city to celebrate my granma's bday and to enjoy some bad drivers, even worse air, traffic jams, and some interesting family members! Have a good weekend everyone!
Tina
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Whimsy_girl
True Blue Farmgirl
576 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2005 : 9:37:53 PM
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lol Tonight wasn't such a bad night for temper tantrums.. Kaylee actually ate a couple of slices of cucumber before she noticed they were green, and Halsey's teeth aren't hurting her so bad so we can give tonight an a+ :)
Your place really does sound interesting.. it's nice that you have the hardwood under the carpet. I would love to just tear up the ugly stuff and have something beautiful underneith... While I am not opposed to just painting the concrete under the lower level carpet, my husband wants to replace it with new carpet to keep it warmer and more insulated.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
497 Posts
cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Feb 26 2006 : 4:23:30 PM
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Hi all farmgirls! I haven't posted since last Nov. - just got too busy with the holidays, post holidays, etc. Today I was overjoyed (yes - that's the right word), looking over our local paper's "thrifties" ads, I came across one for an "antique" wooden ironing board. Upon calling I found that the lady who had it for sale lived a few houses from where I used to live! I got it for $10, and it's in great shape, I am planning to use it to iron. Though I have a modern metal board, there's nothing like a sturdy wooden one. I don't plan on using it for a shelf!
ce's farm
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farmgrlchick
True Blue Farmgirl
439 Posts
Theresa
Columbus
Montana
USA
439 Posts |
Posted - Feb 26 2006 : 7:41:16 PM
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Well I love my wooden ironing board. It was made by a family friend who is now past. Years ago he had it in his head to 'build' a boat. And build a boat he did. The story goes.... something wasn't just right, so with the scraps from after the re-do , he built his wife an ironing board. It is still the same finish as the boat, and I love that old ironing board.
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