The display cabinet caught my eye as soon as I entered the store.
It shall be a hundred years old, made of soft wood.
Bright, friendly, with glass doors.
It would be ideal for wine and champagne glasses and the colorful coffee service.
It would look great in the living room - an original piece among the otherwise rather functionally designed furniture.
Catherine Deschka
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Luckily it doesn't smell musty and we can maneuver it into the car by folding down the back seat and seat.
What I don't notice despite all the euphoria are the pinhead-sized holes in the wood.
I only discover them at home when unloading.
That must be a woodworm!
Which is why the cupboard is now in the basement instead of in the living room to be on the safe side.
Not that the worm wants to eat its way into the parquet floor or other furniture.
No chips, no worm
But is the worm still alive?
In any case, there is no gnawing or smacking to be heard inside the cupboard.
Maybe he climbed in a hundred years ago and died long ago of old age?
Or he got bored and crawled out one night and went off to find another, tastier piece of furniture.
To find out if the worm is still stuck in the closet, there is a simple, tried and true remedy, a master carpenter tells me, whom I ask for advice.
You put paper under the cupboard.
If the worm is still alive, you will find light heaps on the paper.
If these remain absent, then there is no longer any worm.
After a week you can be sure, says the master carpenter: "No sawdust means there are no more woodworms." What we should do if it's still there is another question.
Then we would have to deal with the wooden cupboard and its worm for quite a while.