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andale virginia notoriously known as inside the beltway we ve been renting a home in roanoke va with its own mid century touches i ve instagrammed is that a verb a few photos from that house but mainly i ve been spending a ton of time moving stuff and getting work done on the uncle atom crib to get it ready for sale the time finally came and it recently went on the market here s the zillow link i am hoping to continue this blog once the dust settles i ve got an antique mall space now and four project cars along with a ton of stuff i want to do so no shortage of work to do and topics to blog about just no time i am hoping someone will fall in love with this house as we did and as a bonus they also get a 12 foot cat posted by uncle atom at 5 01 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 26 2017 hijacked by photobucket photos may go away hi all if you are active in one or more online forums you may have noticed that a once popular photo hosting service photobucket has changed their terms of service and is no longer allowing free accounts to have photos appear on third party sites most of the photos associated with this blog are hosted at photobucket from what i can see the blog has been unaffected by the photobucket change but i m anticipating that this could change soon i have made numerous attempts to download the album where i have the uncle atom images but i have not been able to download photos in batches and i don t have the time to download them one at a time so if you have a particular blog post you may want to refer to you may want to save it i do not intend to pay the high rate photobucket has begun charging so i m expecting that nearly all of this blog s photos will become unavailable soon posted by uncle atom at 4 58 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 30 2017 mid century cat supersized hola amigos it s been a long time since i last rapped at ya earlier this year we had some trees removed in our front yard they were too close to the house and i asked the tree man to leave about a 12 foot stump from the red oak outside our living room window at our fall block party the neighbors were quizzing us about the stump it had some newly sprouting branches with leaves and wasn t exactly a pretty sight ernest t provides some scale to the tree stump i had visions of carving something like maynard maynard in the prime of his life but honestly with this stump very visible from the street i didn t want something that wasn t really nice and to get something nice you either work very slowly and carefully or pay to have it done luckily my wife knew of a former co worker s son who does chainsaw carving professionally i interviewed andrew and looked over photos of his work on his website and we decided to have him do the work i thought a lot about what i wanted and what would appeal to more people than another tiki oriented sculpture and it became obvious that the answer was a stylized cat very mid century i shared some photos of stylized cats i had found and together andrew and i fine tuned his sketches and agreed on the look so one thing led to another and here it is ernest t gives some scale to the size of the stump these shots are from day one after two days work in windy cold weather artist andrew mallon poses with the finished cat we are thrilled with how it turned out an added bonus is that while the speed bump in front of our house is not very effective in slowing traffic the cat seems to be working pretty well we haven t settled on a name but i keep coming back to that darn cat from the 1965 disney movie of the same name i haven t seen this film in decades but a little online searching pulled up an original movie poster and a detail in the movie the darn cat had the shortened name dc and since we live outside of dc it seems like a good match posted by uncle atom at 3 24 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 3 2016 old office chair gets a new suit of leather this office chair was my first furniture purchase at an auction more than 20 years ago i used it for years as is and when the vinyl was too torn up i used an automotive seat cover on it i ve been putting off working on it forever but i finally tackled it recently and i m pretty happy with the results here s what it looked like when i started the vinyl was torn and had a very sticky coating all over it pretty gross it also had a lot of tacks and a ton of staples which all had to come out and the cardboard on the back was badly torn i fixed that with some packing tape and i also cut another piece of cardboard in the same pattern and used both pieces for the new back after i cleaned and used some restore a finish on the wood arms back and base i picked up some upholstery quality batting at a local fabric store and with a manual hand stapler i started to reassemble using this dark red leather i cut the new batting in the same shape as the old cotton batting which i also used doubling up on the seat padding i reused the 1 8 inch cord from inside the old vinyl piping to make new piping with strips of the leather then i just took my time and tried to stretch and fold the leather around the corners the way it had been done with the vinyl the leather was a little thicker than the old vinyl but with some cutting and stretching and a lot of staples i got it done here s the end result for the new back i used the same brass tacks i used on the turquoise chair in my last post it was hard to tuck the leather under the cardboard back and as a result it isn t nearly as tight as i would like it but i m satisfied with the look heck it s a very old heavy chair that has years of new life now but it won t be mistaken for something brand new and i like it that way it s good to be posting here again i don t think i ll be as prolific with my posts but i am hoping with the new year to be somewhat more regular happy new year posted by uncle atom at 11 48 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels chair leather office vinyl thursday december 24 2015 mid century swivel chair reupholstered hey everyone and merry christmas i thought i would do a post about another cool chair i ve been wanting to reupholster i got this swivel chair years ago at a local flea market for a nice price and had it at work for a long time great lines don t you think once it began to develop a tear in the vinyl ok after a few years of living with the tear i finally brought it home and acquired some turquoise vinyl initially i wanted to try and use a sewing machine to come close to reproducing the look of the original with piping but after a lot of thought i went with the easier approach the burplap underneath remains in pretty good condition so i reused it and the original cotton padding i picked up some upholstery quality batting at a local fabric store and cut it to fit over the original stuffing for some much needed extra padding using a heat gun i warmed up the vinyl in places and carefully stretched it to fit the seat back in this photo you can see how the original vinyl was started at the top back of the seat back and then cardboard was stapled over top of the vinyl then it was a matter of folding the vinyl over the cardboard and beginning to staple the bottom i left the cardboard unstapled along the two sides of the back so i could tuck the excess vinyl under the cardboard to finish the seat back i picked up some brass tacks similar to the original ones which were only used along two back edges the rest of the work just involved carefully stretching the vinyl and stapling it to the frame of the seat base i m reasonably satisfied with the end result i have enough vinyl to have the base re done by a pro using piping and fitting it better but for now it s going back to the office posted by uncle atom at 5 37 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels chair seat swivel upholstery monday march 23 2015 shasta la vista baby i ve had my 1962 shasta travel trailer for 9 years and it still isn t done that s one of the problems with having way too many interesting projects i ve finally decided i should let it go to someone i hope will finish it and enjoy it anyway i wanted to let you all know in case you or someone you know might be interested here s the link to the ebay listing one of my spring and summer goals is to finally get the comet wagon finished enough to start enjoying it i ve got to weld in some front floor pan patches then put down some carpeting and bolt in the freshly covered seats then tackle an annoying ignition problem get the brakes done have a new exhaust system installed and then i hope i can drive it if the work on the comet stalls i ll probably sell it too i ve still got two other project cars waiting so yeah i ll miss the shasta but you have to let things go sometimes posted by uncle atom at 7 54 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels shasta camper trailer comet saturday january 17 2015 another eames knockoff gets recovered i recently picked up a second eames knockoff bent plywood chair and ottoman similar to this project from several years ago http atomicuncle blogspot com 2011 12 project plycraft chair gets bargain html the build quality of this chair seems better than the plycraft one the chair s original leather was faded but not consistently so i went back to my stash of barkcloth and recovered this chair too here s the result posted by uncle atom at 8 47 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels barkcloth eames googie plycraft plywood upholstery thursday december 25 2014 merry christmas 1963 posted by uncle atom at 5 06 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 30 2014 deck staining squared after my last update a few weeks ago i got started with my plan for staining the deck i wanted to have some color and decided to give this space something in common with our basement flooring with that decision made i picked out two solid stains to match up with the redwood color i used on the fence i tried out my colors in the raised areas first with those parts done in solid colors i could see how the three colors would work together and i decided to go for it i figured the space was big enough to allow me to make two foot squares if i had gone with one foot squares i would have gone crazy with all the taping i started out in what i considered the middle of the deck and began laying out the lines from there i used a 12 inch metal painting blade to keep the paint within the boarders about half way in i made a mistake can you spot it she who must be obeyed is a quilter and she reminded me that traditionally many quilters would purposely introduce a mistake into their work so as not to be perfect so that s my story too and i m sticking to it i knew going in that it would take a lot of effort to deal with the visible edges of each board and that took the most time as i squeezed the brush into the cracks between boards and worked to get complete coverage without getting spots of one color where another color is supposed to be i think the end result was worth it it worked pretty well but i ve got some touch up to do yet posted by uncle atom at 5 30 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels deck homecrest staining tiki older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog update 1 1 12 i finally set up a page here for aluminum screen door information and swapping of monogram letters for screen door inserts see the box below in this column of info or just click here like uncle atom on facebook save the mill finish aluminum screen doors visit this new page for info and connect with others who may be able to help you find a screen grille or monogram letter subscribe to uncle atom posts atom posts all comments atom all comments pageviews last month popular posts vintage mill finish aluminum screen doors and grille guards a few years ago i happened across a craigslist post for items being sold from a 1950s house that was going to be demolished i got five s trailer trash to treasure when i still had my old mercury colony park station wagon i got interested in finding an old camper to tow with the wagon i kept an eye o i ve always wanted an office fireplace i think you know how this story goes there i was minding my own business just innocently enjoying some retro renovation goodies on flic project refinish two lane acclaim tables part 1 ok so back in the summer i scored this great lane acclaim coffee table at an estate sale for a nice price because it had some seri search the uncle atom blog blog archive blog archive august 1 august 1 january 1 january 1 december 1 march 1 january 1 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