Bye-bye, Chairs

It's splitsville for Chair No. 1

Remember the new chairs I was so excited about a few months ago? Well, we had to go our separate ways earlier this evening. Yup, I loaded up those bad boys into my car (all by myself, I might add!) and dropped them off at Lenox, where we first met. I was a little sad about it, but I held it together pretty well. I can't say as much for the chairs--three of them were already coming apart.

Har, har, har. I'll be here all week, people. (Actually, I take that back. We're moving in a few days. I'll be here most of the week. ha!)

Yeah, so on Sunday morning I sat down in one of our chairs to enjoy some toast and Coke. And something kind of pricked me or scraped me or something. Anyway, I turned around to find that the wood on the chair was starting to split! Tanna and I then examined the rest of the chairs, and the same thing was happening to another one--and pretty much in the same place. Not good. We hadn't even had the chairs for three months--and they weren't exactly what I'd call cheap, either. Also, it's not like the chairs are used heavily.

If you look up the chairs on Crate and Barrel's Web site, you will see that the same thing has been happening to other customers. :o( And that meant that I'd need to return the chairs and start my search all over again. If it was just one of them, I could order a replacement. But now we are back at square one. It took me a long time to find chairs that I loved. These chairs were just what I was looking for--the finish, the design,the simplicity. Oh well. I guess it was good we discovered the cracking before we moved them. Four less things to load up this weekend.

On the bright side ... Crate and Barrel was great about the whole thing--score one for their wonderful customer service!


Chair No. 2--splitting in the same place.


When I was getting the chairs ready to take down to the car, I realized another chair was starting to split as well. :o(