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Daily eBay – vintage pine chest

What do you keep in yours? Shoes, handbags, spare bedding? What? You don’t have a trunk! Well, check out today’s Daily eBay.

Discovered by designer and greenmystyle.com home style coolhunter Vic Tristram, today’s Daily eBay is this aged vintage solid pine trunk cum blanket box.

Apparently it’s at least 80-years-old. It’s made of solid think pine with dovetail joints, metal carrying handles and a thick skirted base. It’s quite large, at 17″ high, 37″ width and 19″ deep.

The condition is described as “good and original for its age”. It has the normal knocks, natural splits, marks and agewear that old pine often has.

Current bid is £23 and bidding ends on October 12 at 9.32pm.

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Daily eBay – Habitat table

A stylish bedside table is as hard to find as a sober footballer in Chinawhite. There’s more pine than there are pine forests it seems (why, we ask?), and if it’s not pine, it’s white MDF and made with the same degree of skill as baby’s first painting. ‘My kid could make that better,’ we exclaim as a nation at yet another Ikea object with wonky joints.

But we’re nothing if not tenacious at greenmystyle.com, and undeterred by a tricky challenge in the face of recycling and re-using, we’ve toiled at the coalface that is eBay to find what does pass as an attractive bedside table.

Yes, today’s Daily eBay is this Habitat contemporary purple plastic bedside table with sliding doors. Purple plastic might not strike you as the most stylish, but I’d have to disagree. I think this would look great as a standalone colourful piece against a range of more sedate bedroom colours and styles. And purple’s a very hot fashion colour right now too.

Height is 23 inches, diameter is 12.5 inches, and it has three separate compartments. Strikes me as being rather useful.

Current bid price is £7.50, and bidding ends September 23 at 12.23pm. It’s a pick-up from Godalming, Surrey.

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Daily eBay – Ikea day bed

Today’s discovery hints at the fact that I was out late last night and am feeling a little sleepy today. I was at Feelgood Fashion, an ethical fashion event and part of London Design Festival, if you’re wondering. It was great. I met Safia Minney, founder of People Tree, a greenmystyle favourite label.

Anyway, I digress. With sleepiness on my mind, I headed just now for the day beds on eBay. It’s all making sense now, yes?

So, today’s find is this incredibly simple, suits all styles, Ikea day bed, with a  current bid price of just £25. That’s a steal.

Everything’s beige, which is a bit of a gamble, but the covers are washable. It’s 169cm long by 80cm wide and 40cm high. I’ve lost count of how often I’ve been inflating a blow-up mattress and wishing for a spare bed like this. You know what I mean.

Bidding ends September 24 at 13.57pm. It’s a pick-up only from Weybridge, Surrey, buy hey there are worse things to do on a Saturday afternoon.

By the way, I seem to be having an Ikea moment this week. Fear not, readers, it will pass.

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