| Antique furniture has always been very popular and | | | | furnish your house with some nice replica pieces and |
| many people would not consider decorating their home | | | | you have that feel of period furniture. No doubt it does |
| with anything less than priceless antiques that they | | | | look good. Some of the modern designs do leave a bit |
| have spent a lifetime collecting. It doesn't take long | | | | to be desired in the style department. It can be little |
| before your furniture is more valuable than your house. | | | | difficult to assimilate antiques with TV sets for instance |
| How do you sit in a chair comfortably when you know | | | | and you can get a cabinet with doors to hide our |
| it is worth thousands of dollars. You dare not have a | | | | modern hi fi gear. |
| cup of coffee. What if you spill it or drop some cream | | | | If that is too hard then maybe you just want to do out |
| cake on that gorgeous upholstery. The hand carved | | | | one room in antique looking furniture. The main |
| armoire fits into that category too. A very expensive | | | | bedroom say is the perfect room to start your |
| piece. | | | | collection. It is not on display to everyone and is just |
| When I used to visit my grand parents, they lived in a | | | | there for you to enjoy. There are some beautiful |
| house with an old lady who had been there all her life. | | | | pieces of bedroom furniture in many period styles for |
| Her parents were there before her and the house | | | | you to choose from. What about a nice four poster |
| was just as it was in her parents day. She would | | | | bed complimented with matching dressing table and |
| always invite us for a morning or afternoon tea or | | | | maybe a couple of other pieces. This is where our |
| sometimes lunch. We usually had tea in her drawing | | | | hand carved armoire fits in just nicely. Being a relatively |
| room, an original old room filled with the original antique | | | | small piece it wont be intrusive and will fit nicely into |
| furniture. However it was just furniture to her and you | | | | that small space that looks a bit empty. The hand |
| sat on these lovely old pieces. You would dine at the | | | | carved and hand painted styles are really beautiful and |
| large wooden antique table and lunch would be served | | | | are useful in that all your jewelry and scarfs etc can |
| up on old wedge wood dishes. She used all this stuff | | | | be stored away in there out of sight. |
| as everyday dishes and furniture because she always | | | | The beauty of a piece like this is it's size. you don't |
| had. There would have been a fortune in antiques in | | | | have to go round heaps of antique shops to find it |
| that house of hers. I know when it was time for her to | | | | because it is readily available online and can be |
| sell up and move into a retirement home the antique | | | | delivered to your door. It will need minimal assembly |
| dealer sold her furniture for her. He would keep it all in | | | | just to attach the legs and top but that is a small price |
| storage and just sell a couple of pieces at a time so | | | | to pay. And of course, because it is a replica, even |
| as not to flood the market. | | | | though hand carved and painted, you are going to be |
| Because antique furniture is so popular and so many | | | | surprised just how inexpensive they are to buy. So |
| would love to have it but can't afford it, an industry has | | | | that could be a starting point for your replica antique |
| grown in the antique replica market. Many | | | | furniture. Just start off small with say a small piece in |
| manufacturers are making replica antique furniture in all | | | | an armoire for your bedroom. But be careful. Once |
| the popular pieces and from the popular eras. Nothing | | | | you have started you may get the bug and then there |
| wrong with that as long as they don't try and sell it as | | | | is no stopping. |
| real antique as a few have tried. You are able now to | | | | |