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How To Make The Most Of Antique Furniture Shops
By David Faulkner
It is a well-known fact that the layout and style of our homes accurately reflect our individual characters and personalities. Every item that we buy and display in our homes says something about us. As a result, it is essential that we pay attention to every item that we buy. Antiques are in fashion at the moment, as well as providing a sound investment, so more and more individuals are taking to exploring antique furniture shops in their quest for an identity and a bargain.
Antiques can bring your home a certain elegance and opulence that previous generations enjoyed in a vast array of styles and designs. Anyone taking a look around antique furniture stores is likely to find something to suit their tastes and browsing around several antique furniture stores will enable you to determine what kind of piece you are looking for.
Before even choosing a definitive style, you should identify what sort of era and place of origin you want in your furniture. Antiques are pieces of furniture over a hundred years old and come from all over the world so you have to really narrow the scope of your choice down. Antique furniture stores usually have an area of specialization and so browsing a few stores may help you to decide, although it is rare that you can actually browse through a range of eras in the one place. You must be prepared to travel or browse the Internet in order to help refine your tastes. As soon as you have defined a broad set of wants and needs, you can contact individual antique furniture stores in preparation for purchase.
Antique Oak Furniture Antique furniture stores are often few and far between in more rural or modern areas, but older towns and all cities should have a wide range of antiques available for purchase. However, more and more antiques furniture store owners are starting to offer their wares solely online. This cuts down costs and opens their business up to markets further afield. They can in fact sell their antiques all over the world. It also helps the consumer to choose the perfect piece for them because images and full descriptions are available online.
When dealing with online antique furniture stores, exercise a good degree of caution. The antiques business attracts big money so always be aware of fraudulent deals. Check out the store background and the history of the owner behind it. If you cannot trace him or her, or find something that you are not entirely satisfied with, then just walk away and try to find your desired piece elsewhere. Never hand over any money until you are satisfied with the antique furniture store's communication and have all of the relevant information in writing.
Always be aware of shipping costs too. If you are purchasing from online antique furniture stores then the likelihood is that the total cost will include a significant shipping cost as a result of the weight and dimensions of your antique. As soon as it gets to you though, all thoughts of cost will be swept away because you will be staring at an item of absolute beauty!
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Burn marks can be taken out of furniture with fine steel wool, a razor blade, a scalpel or craft knife. The shallow hole that results may be filled by artists' oil colors, mixed with linseed oil, or if a glossy finish is desired, with varnish, or mixed with turpentine, it will be matt. A filler can also be made from colored beeswax, from powder stain mixed with a medium such as epoxy resin, or shellac mixed with powder pigment.
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Inexperienced buyers, armed only with a smattering of book-learning and driven by a hunger for a home furnished with antiques, often payout substantial sums for pieces that take their fancy, but which carry no worth-while guarantee. At least until they have acquired a good working knowledge by dint of studying the things themselves, as well as by reading books. Buyers should ask themselves whether it might not be better to pay a little more - even a little too much - for the right thing, guaranteed by a reputable expert, than to grub around for so-called bargains that turn out to be 'fake'. Generally speaking, a detailed invoice from an established dealer is a much safer form of protection than any description in an auctioneer's catalogue.
Buy antique cabinets today!
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How To Make The Most Of Antique Furniture Shops
By David Faulkner
It is a well-known fact that the layout and style of our homes accurately reflect our individual characters and personalities. Every item that we buy and display in our homes says something about us. As a result, it is essential that we pay attention to every item that we buy. Antiques are in fashion at the moment, as well as providing a sound investment, so more and more individuals are taking to exploring antique furniture shops in their quest for an identity and a bargain.
Antiques can bring your home a certain elegance and opulence that previous generations enjoyed in a vast array of styles and designs. Anyone taking a look around antique furniture stores is likely to find something to suit their tastes and browsing around several antique furniture stores will enable you to determine what kind of piece you are looking for.
Before even choosing a definitive style, you should identify what sort of era and place of origin you want in your furniture. Antiques are pieces of furniture over a hundred years old and come from all over the world so you have to really narrow the scope of your choice down. Antique furniture stores usually have an area of specialization and so browsing a few stores may help you to decide, although it is rare that you can actually browse through a range of eras in the one place. You must be prepared to travel or browse the Internet in order to help refine your tastes. As soon as you have defined a broad set of wants and needs, you can contact individual antique furniture stores in preparation for purchase.
Antique Oak Furniture Antique furniture stores are often few and far between in more rural or modern areas, but older towns and all cities should have a wide range of antiques available for purchase. However, more and more antiques furniture store owners are starting to offer their wares solely online. This cuts down costs and opens their business up to markets further afield. They can in fact sell their antiques all over the world. It also helps the consumer to choose the perfect piece for them because images and full descriptions are available online.
When dealing with online antique furniture stores, exercise a good degree of caution. The antiques business attracts big money so always be aware of fraudulent deals. Check out the store background and the history of the owner behind it. If you cannot trace him or her, or find something that you are not entirely satisfied with, then just walk away and try to find your desired piece elsewhere. Never hand over any money until you are satisfied with the antique furniture store's communication and have all of the relevant information in writing.
Always be aware of shipping costs too. If you are purchasing from online antique furniture stores then the likelihood is that the total cost will include a significant shipping cost as a result of the weight and dimensions of your antique. As soon as it gets to you though, all thoughts of cost will be swept away because you will be staring at an item of absolute beauty!
You can also find more information at Antique pine Furniture and Hardware For Antique Furniture Restoration
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Burn marks can be taken out of furniture with fine steel wool, a razor blade, a scalpel or craft knife. The shallow hole that results may be filled by artists' oil colors, mixed with linseed oil, or if a glossy finish is desired, with varnish, or mixed with turpentine, it will be matt. A filler can also be made from colored beeswax, from powder stain mixed with a medium such as epoxy resin, or shellac mixed with powder pigment.
Buy antique cupboards today!
Inexperienced buyers, armed only with a smattering of book-learning and driven by a hunger for a home furnished with antiques, often payout substantial sums for pieces that take their fancy, but which carry no worth-while guarantee. At least until they have acquired a good working knowledge by dint of studying the things themselves, as well as by reading books. Buyers should ask themselves whether it might not be better to pay a little more - even a little too much - for the right thing, guaranteed by a reputable expert, than to grub around for so-called bargains that turn out to be 'fake'. Generally speaking, a detailed invoice from an established dealer is a much safer form of protection than any description in an auctioneer's catalogue.
Buy antique cabinets today!
antique star jewelry News From Around The World
New for You: Expanded Antiques Glossary
Would you recognize this Bakelite bangle as an "end of day" piece? If not, it might be time to bone up on your antiques terminology. This definition, along with...
Roman Antiques - Coins, Sculptures, Portraits, Paintings
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:22:20 -0600
Ancient Roman Jewelry, Vintage brooches, and Uncut Minerals. Bronze, Glass and Iron Artefacts from the Roman Empire. Learn a little about Roman coins, portraits and scuptures to know if the items you want to buy are really antiques.
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