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How to Recognize and Refinish Antiques for Pleasure and Profit, 5th (How to Recognize and Refinish Antiques for a Pleasure)
Bob Brooke (Paperback) Globe Pequot 2006-12-01
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An not counting guide any part-time hobbyist or collection catering to them...
If you have an attic of old items or a propensity for garage sales and 'junk', you may be surprised to find with that only a few simple tools you can turn inexpensive 'found objects' into treasures for a live collection or resale. This is for the part-time antique collector and provides tips on...
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My grandmother passed away and we are selling some of her furniture. Is there a website that I can go look at to find what limit of price we should put on the furniture? We have an old bedroom dresser, dresser with mirror, living room furniture,...
I'm not assured of websites, but a quick search engine search will point you toward those resources. I promote asking a local antiques dealer or estate sale specialist to premiere c end and consult. You will probably pay them a commission of...
www.iantiqueonline.com Antique Furniture How to care for antique furniture
We bought an antique bookcase and later discovered it has bugs in it. They are eating the wood and leaving inconsequential piles of sawdust. They are very small and brown with little wings - they sort of take after weevils. (I do not think they...
The dilemma you have resembles woodworm, if there is powder dust from tiny holes, this is from the larvae and then they relocate through your entire house if not treated quickly allegedly. I would treat the suspect article with a proprietary...
I have a like antique dining set and I want to identify the style/period of the furniture. The back of the chairs is similar to Monarch Anne however, the legs are turned and straight (plumb from the corner of the seat to the defeat) not carved or...
Try this website. They have descriptions of all furniture styles.
http://www.restorations.net/mainstyl.htm #queenanne
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In Romania, Creating a Bohemian Attic
A former judge, Ms. VALCU, 48, moved here from a building in the center of the city. She had always wanted a bohemian loft, hanging over the world where I could imagine that I was nowhere, "said Ms. VALCU, which refurbishes old furniture now.
She purchased her apartment on the top floor of a room in 2008 at the height of the housing market, while the Romanian economy was doing well, to pay € 142,000 at the time, or $ 174,476 to 1 , $ 23 to the euro.
After a long search that exasperated estate agents, she says, she found a barn that was buried in the plaster and divided into five rooms.It reverses all the walls to create a loft.
"Suddenly, I could see the old, but high beams," said Ms. VALCU renovation. "The height, tranquility made me think of a cathedral."
She painted the walls white to offset the wooden beams and oak floors. "Because of the light through the windows," said Ms. VALCU, "the house has become an abstract, supernatural feel of another world, suspended in time and space.
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one of the pieces in the debut collection by Antiques Road Show dynamic duo Leslie and Leigh Keno for Theodore Alexander Furniture.
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Television shows about interior design, changing ideas of what an antique is, the rise of discount furniture stores and even the September 11 attacks have
