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@thatkris - Let me be clearer for you then: It's a stupid mod to perfectly good and solid oak chairs. Chairs that could be used for another 40 years. And, as it turns out, the practice of using elevated bowl is also unhealthy for the dogs. So it's doubly stupid.

You still want to defend it?

I hate when people ruin perfectly good and serviceable furniture. I may not like painted furniture, but at least you still have a usable piece when done. They may as well have burned these chairs in a camp fire.

Here are some variants:

Swap prosciutto with pancetta.
Toss in some green peas at the finish.
Brown and then cut up Italian sausage and simmer in the sauce until done.

Also, I always finish with cream and then remove from heat.

Good stuff otherwise!

Have fun

@LEPIDOPTERY - I understand your point, but why couldn't both survive? To me, it smacks of a cold-hearted business decision, and not a decision based on what the customers (i.e. readers) want. Gone is the cute, whimsical, folksy, hand-made feel of AT and say hello to the corporate brand. I understand that this is now a real business, It sucks when you lose a friend.

Average price of your "scavenger" items is $1,185. Doesn't sound much like a scavenger hunt to me. Seems more like high priced dealers paying to list stuff on your site.

Quit trying to fix stuff that isn't broken. Bring back the old scavenger.

Lastly - if you don't like negative comments, why do you bother allowing comments? I am sure you will delete this, like you have deleted other posts that are critical of your site.

@Rumagogo and @BrooklynJennie - If they treat the old Daily Scavenger like they did the redesign, your complaints will fall on deaf ears. They erased my posts from the first "new" scavenger link the other day because it was negative. I miss the old scavenger too.

@TAO_GENEVA I agree. I think if you're going to do something to modernize a piece (i.e. stained and painted, which I think is a fairly modern take) then Shabbi-fying the paint seems out of context.

A smooth paint job in gold, blue, sage or something that would compliment and existing color scheme would be very interesting.

Regardless, nice work and a very nice piece of furniture has been saved.

.PS AT - can we have more of these projects please??? KTHXBAI

I like the wood, not so much the dusty blue on the sides. The drawers look ok.

Oh, and it's about time you had a before/after piece AT. You've been seriously lacking these of late.

Ugh... cut and paste that into your browser. Or search for "Midwest Mar 21, 2012" and then you'll find it.

Good luck

They always seem to mess up the scavenger hunt posts

Be careful, CL is notorious for sending cease and desist letters to search sites that get too popular.