Wednesday, October 24, 2012

German shrunk or schrunk

I mentioned the other day that I wanted to buy some furniture off craigslist.  Well it turned out that every time I made appointments to see furniture they would text me and tell me that it had sold.  That is all but the German shrunk that I wanted.  I text ed several times and the lady said the ad was about to run out and she was not going to renew it and that she would save it for me.  Its a few hours away so its not like we can just jump in the pick up and run over to get it so I am thankful she is so willing to wait.  We will try to get there Monday or Tuesday and rent a uhaul when we get there.
One dear friend had never heard of a shrunk so I asked the seller to send me pictures since the craigslist ad was no more and here they are.  Oh and I had never heard of one either until my sister got one and was talking about them.  Anyway here are pictures of the shrunk I am buying.

The top picture makes the shrunk appear darker than it really is.  These pieces come from Germany and were brought over mostly by service men.  They come apart in several pieces so they are easier to transport.  The problem is the service men pay several thousand dollars for these shrunks and then when they get to the states they discover that the homes here usually don't have enough wall space to allow them to be set up.  I happen to have just the place for this one.  Granted it it will take up one entire wall but it will look beautiful.  Of course we wont have the bar part set up as we don't drink but it can be used for other things.  I am quite excited to purchase this first piece of furniture for our new home. This piece is something like 9 feet tall by over 9 feet wide and about 2 feet deep at the deepest part which is the bottom piece which by the way is the largest piece of all.

5 comments:

loves2spin said...

That is SO beautiful! What a blessing!

RickinMidBeach said...

Beautiful! I've been looking for one for my mother's FL condo. She collects a lot of 'knick-knacks', so I've looked at a lot. Your's is the prettiest one I've seen. Congratulations! Rick

RickinMidBeach said...

I've been looking at Shrunks for months for my mother's Miami Beach condo. This is the absolute prettiest one I've seen. You are so lucky! Rick

RickinMidBeach said...

Beautiful! I've been looking for one for my mother's FL condo. She collects a lot of 'knick-knacks', so I've looked at a lot. Your's is the prettiest one I've seen. Congratulations! Rick

Anonymous said...

LOL yes that's the problem SPACE :) I was stationed (I was active Duty Air Force for 20 yrs) in England about a decade.. I would see ton of people come from Germany and NO ROOM for the beautiful shrunks so they end up selling them!

Shelly Foster