Mini Cart
EuroLux Home
Exploring Antique Furniture and Home Decorating Ideas
Buying Antiques at French Antique Markets
-
Antiques Buying Trip: English Grandfather Clocks
We found some lovely grandfather clocks in Belgium. If you’ve been following the story of our antiques buying trip in France and Belgium, you’ll remember that on our last stop we arrived in England where our hotel overlooked the fantastically beautiful Lincoln Cathedral. Now it was time to hit the road and go antiques hunting! Greg managed to drive us...
Read On -
Antiques Buying Trip England: Lincoln Cathedral
If you've been following the story of our antiques buying trip in France and Belgium, you'll know that our next stop is England! At this stage in our adventure we had finished our tour around France and Belgium and returned our big rental van in Paris. It had been packed with antiques that we bought, but now we had time...
Read On -
Belgian Furniture: Religious Treasures
We continued our European antiques buying trip in Belgium, where we found a wonderful array of Belgian furniture and religious treasures to ship home, as well as antique furniture. In my last blog post I wrote about the antique and vintage chandeliers we found in Belgium. So let's have a look at our next discoveries. We were mainly driving around...
Read On -
Antiques Buying Trip Belgium: Vintage Chandeliers
The next stop on our antiques buying trip in Europe was Belgium, which Greg calls his second home. I already wrote about our travels around France as we hunted for antique treasures to ship home to the USA, and you can read our last French antiques-hunting blog post here. As we drove our rented van into Belgium, we guessed we'd...
Read On -
Antiques Buying Trip in France Part 2
Greg and I have been in Paris and Northern France on an antiques buying trip before we head off to Belgium and England to find even more antique treasures. We already posted about the first days of our antiques buying trip in France, so here's the next adventure in our European Pickers tour 2017! This is one of the antiques shops...
Read On -
French Antiques Buying Trip
Bonjour from France! Greg and I landed in Paris at the weekend on an antiques buying trip around Northern France, Belgium and England. Come along for the ride! We've been posting more photos as we go on our EuroLux Facebook page so you can follow us there too and see pictures of the treasures we find. Our first stop in...
Read On -
Things We Love: Antiquing and Ziplining
Greg and I have just taken a five-day vacation in Asheville, NC, for Greg's birthday. We arrived in good time at Campfire Lodgings so we could get the tent up before sunset. We had found a very funky restaurant called the Stoney Knob Café in Weaverville on Trip Advisor, so we headed over there for dinner. The food was awesome...
Read On -
Antique Furniture Container Arrives!
From the time we fly home from Europe after an antiques buying trip, it takes about a month until the container arrives at the EuroLux Antiques Gallery in South Carolina. Our containers ship across the Atlantic ocean, arrive in Charleston, and then are trucked to Newberry after we receive the green light from US Customs. It's always exciting to receive...
Read On -
Antiques Buying Trip: Homecoming
Here at EuroLuxHome.com, we look forward to antiques buying trips with great anticipation - what amazing things will we find? This trip we had to upgrade to a larger container because we found so many beautiful pieces of antique furniture and 100+ unique vintage chandeliers. However, by the end of the trip, we are always equally excited to go home...
Read On -
Antiques Buying Trip Day 11: Chateau Tour
On our last day of the Antiques Buying Trip, Greg and I had finished everything we needed to do, so we headed to southern Belgium to visit the Chateau de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne. The lovely chateau dates to 1450 and has several rooms decorated in period furnishings from the 17th century. Although it's somewhat of a "busman's holiday", we enjoy visiting historical...
Read On