Post #543620 by Paipo on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 4:54 PM

Finally...very surprised to find this in the town I live in!

Quite an epic saga involved in procuring this treasure in the end...and now a lot of work ahead of me. I have found some amazing pieces of furniture lately, but old stuff in this town is pretty much always badly damaged from neglect...

I'm thinking of pilfering some of the trim from the back side to refinish the edge of the bar top:

First step: pulling this godawful check fabric off the stools:

What was underneath - worst tropical print fabric EVER!

I will probably use the green tapa barkcloth on the bar in the above pics to recover these.

Anybody got any experience of repairing these bars or replacing the trim and binding on rattan furniture? I see 1961surf had a bar restoration thread but it never progressed much beyond the sanding/refinishing stage.

I am thinking I may have to find a sacrificial specimen to cannibalise for materials. You need to soak or steam the stuff before wrapping it, correct?

Any advice or tips appreciated!

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