Coming Soon . . . CHALKBOARDS

 
Vintage wood frame and steel frame rolling and rotating school chalkboards will be available for purchase very soon.

Pending slight tweaks and refurbs, we will have 5 of these classic classroom chalkboards for sale.

School Desks

While acquiring, transporting, cleaning, and processing school desks for sale at Dreamers and Makers it has become apparent there are many styles of the open-front school desk we remember from our days in the classroom.  I, for one, was an attentive student striving for straight As who also somehow had time to draw highly detailed Peter Max-esque designs on my desk top.  Good to know, parents, that the laminate tops on our school desks are eminently cleanable.

This author was intrigued enough by the subject to write an article about it:
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/10/visual-history-school-desks

We currently have in stock desks that are variations on Akanegbu's Steel-and-chrome and the Old-is-new-again desks dating from the 1960s through 80s.

We have desks in the sleek all-welded all-metal Heywood Wakefield vein: tops are fixed on this version.  They come in a couple different colors of book boxes as well as lamination on the tops.

Newer 1980s desks feature bolt-on tubular legs with chrome shins that have deeper adjustment capabilities than the HW desks.  This allows your desk to be used for a wider range of child sizes, up to adult size.  Metal book tubs.

Interestingly, some of the old is new again desks feature octagonal tops, giving a bit more surface area for those students who need it.

Finally, there are the economy desks with plastic book tubs mounted on metal adjustable legs.

All of these desks are easy to customize and refinish.  With a hex wrench, remove the chrome leg portions.  Carefully unscrew the wood top from the book box: Remember, those screws have been through decades of use.  Paint, wax, distress, etc the book box and top leg portions; then reassemble.  You might need a bit of screw tightener when reattaching the tops.  Adjust your leg height to match your student or other need (people all over the world use these desks as end tables, nightstands, little patio tables and storage cabinets, TV or computer stands, etc etc etc)

School desks now available.  We also have book-rack chairs and lots of other classroom-inspired furnishings that are functional, solid, and made in the USA.

Chaising Card Catalogs

Once upon a sunny southern California day we acquired some great burnt-sienna colored hotel-style Tropitone chaise lounges.  Loved the color and the quality workmanship in these late 80s lounges.

So we brought them to the shop and cleaned them up, put them up for sale.  Some time passed and
a meteor shower intervened so we decided to bring along two of the lounges for ideal eyes on the sky comfort.

Then there was a wedding in the woods.  Nothing like snoozing under the oaks after a great party.  Back to the city and work.  A big part of our work is acquiring new interesting things, and a real interesting item came our way involving travel to central California.  Made sense to make a mini vacation out of the trip, so we hitched up the trailer and grabbed the lounges again.

After an amazing sunset and cozy night on the Tropitones, we headed down the mountain to pick up our 80 drawer slide cabinet and trailer it home.

Toward the end of summer a nice couple bought the burnt-sienna lounges, I think with an eye to restrapping and powder coating them.  We can attest, after nights in Lone Pine, Palomar, and Lake Cachuma, that these chaise lounges had good bones, well worth restoring.

Brown lounges . . . I missed you for awhile.  But here's my new fave:

Aluminum frame with thick thick thick naugahyde spring loaded cushion.  Complete with wheels . . . where do you want to go?