Start your collection of antiques by recognizing what might already be in your house or gathering dust in a relative's attic. Restoring a family heirloom is more rewarding than buying someone else's. Next, educate yourself about your favorite period or style, both to increase your enjoyment and sharpen your eye. Finally, treat furniture shopping as an adventure that takes you places you've wanted to visit - and results in exceptional mementos.
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Beginner antique furniture repair and restoration. DVDBy www.AntqRestoration.com. A beginner course for restoration & repair of antique wood furniture on DVD. If you want to enjoy antiques as a hobby, preserve family heirlooms, restore, repair, care for ...
Beijing Shop offers Chinese Antique Furniture, Video 2/3http://www.shopping-in-beijing.com/beijingshops/Buddha-sculptures-295.html Beijing Shopping: Viking Home is a Beijing antique furniture shop. It's located in the Sanlitun area of Chaoyang district in ...
WSD FURNITURE china antique furnitureI have a big warehouse in Beijing China and have a lot of furniture in it. We have different kinds of Chinese Antique furniture, for example: Mongolia, Shanxi, Gansu, Shanxi and Tibet furniture. They ...
Antique sales plummet, stores deal with slumpCherokee TribuneSaturday 16th August 2008Recent trends in plummeting antique prices have had a direct effect on Cherokee County antique dealers. Prices for antique furniture have dropped down to a quarter of what they fetched a year ago, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Battle of Waterloo: Who owns what?The Star-LedgerSunday 17th August 2008Thousands of pieces of the past -- antique furniture, 19th-century household items, Lenape Indian artifacts and more -- are gathering dust in padlocked buildings and a truck trailer at the Waterloo Village historic site as its former operator and the state argue over who owns them.
Dealers get moving to catch up to buyersThe Post-StandardSunday 17th August 2008Jack and Dirinda Houghton have been selling their primitive furniture at Turnpike Antiques in the village of Madison for nearly a decade. They have a piece of prime real estate on Route 20, alongside other antique and collectible dealers.
The Downturn: Davis boutique owner's rosy dream fades to blackThe Sacramento BeeMonday 18th August 2008The woman looked relaxed, sitting comfortably amid her collection of "chick stuff" ? a rack of vintage linens, a table of pretty collectibles, an assortment of gently scuffed furniture. She smiled, but her voice betrayed urgency. Deborah Jory sits among the remnants of her former shop's merchandise at her Davis home last week. Jory closed Bower Bird on June 21 after sales had fallen 80 ...
