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Furniture Restoration: The Old Becomes New
Some of our customers have been very creative in their furniture restoration and repurposing. When you buy a piece of antique furniture, that piece was lovingly hand-crafted for a specific use. Perhaps it was made as an armoire or a nightstand or a buffet or server. But there is no reason that you can't use it for a very different...
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King Henry Bed Bench
A bed bench at the end of the bed is one of the hardworking unsung heros of the bedroom. Today we are going to celebrate the bed bench by showing photos of a fabulous King Henry bed bench in our customer's bedroom. Anne F. in Texas bought this handsome new King Henry style end of the bed bench from us...
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Reupholstered Vintage Sheepbone Chairs
I love this “Reupholstered in Seattle” story. Greg and I found a set of 24 vintage sheepbone chairs that had been used as conference room chairs in France. The vintage chair set dated to the 1930s and each chair was upholstered in a rather ugly green, red and gold striped velour fabric. We optimistically thought of them as "Christmas chairs...
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Renaissance Buffet in Historic South Carolina Home
We delivered a handsome oak Renaissance buffet to a lovely couple who live nearby in Winnsboro, SC. Deborah and David own a gorgeous historic home. This is a photo of the house in 1810 when it was completed. (Thanks to the South Carolina Department of Archives and History for that nostalgic and rather wintry photo!) And here is the house...
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Antique Chairs & Aztec Calendar Stone Table
I've got a great story for you today, one involving antique French Renaissance chairs, the famous Aztec calendar stone, and singer Axl Rose, of the band Guns N' Roses! Yep, it's hard to see how those all fit together, but read on... I'll start from the beginning. I met Bernard M. through our antique furniture store on Etsy. He asked...
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Buffet Carved with Famous Painting
This is an unusual story about an antique French buffet with a carving inspired by a well-known French painting. Our customer Saul in Gurnee, IL, bought the antique Renaissance buffet from us last year while he and his wife were building a new home. Now they are settled in, Saul got in touch to purchase a bench from us and...
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Vintage Renaissance Dining Table
We just delivered a massive vintage Renaissance dining table to Crystal B. in Harlem, Georgia. Crystal found us on Ebay and let us know that she had been searching for the perfect table for her large, open kitchen for the past 4 years! It's a charming kitchen so let's take a look at the table and its new home.. This...
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Antique French Furniture in Classic Newberry Mansion
Today I have some photos of antique French furniture and Mechelen buffets that are a real treat to see in our customer Tamra's classic but eclectic home. The outside of her Greco-Roman mansion in Newberry, SC, is gorgeous too! You may think the dining room looks a little familiar as this home used to be owned by our good customers...
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Charming Cottage Style
We met Lenore and John M. at the Antique Tobacco Barn in Asheville, NC, while we were there restocking our booth. Lenore and John recently purchased a very charming cottage in Sapphire, NC, that dates to the turn of the century and sits next to a babbling brook. Lenore fell in love with two buffets in our booth and then...
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French Antique Chairs in Sandoval Restaurant
A couple of years ago we sold a set of antique Renaissance chairs to Bart D., the director of Business Development for Richard Sandoval Restaurants. He was in charge of opening a new location of La Biblioteca, a tequila bar that offers more than 350 tequilas in Denver, CO. I'm delighted to hear that La Biblioteca has been a great...
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