Antique Furniture

Distressing Furniture Techniques
While most people yearn for brand new furniture, some want their new furniture to look old. Distressed furniture is meant for the latter category. Let us take a look at some distressing furniture techniques, which can help you in doing this task yourself and saving money.

Antique Doorknob Identification
The most impressive style statement any home owner can possibly ever make is through the door knob! While most house-hold varieties involve a simple mechanism, there are some that are antique and complex designs.

Antique and Decorative Cabinet Hardware for Home Decor
Read on to know more about how to choose different types of antique and decorative cabinet hardware for your home cabinets…

Antique Fireplace Mantels: Stone and Wood Fireplace Mantels
"To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world" – Charles Dudley Warner. How true these words of Charles Dudley Warner are, there is truly nothing better than sitting beside a fireplace on cold winter nights…and what adds charm to a fireplace is the fireplace mantel. Lets read more about Fireplace mantels.

Queen Anne Style Blanket Chest
The Queen Anne furniture and blanket chest style in America was one of many which emulated fashionable furniture design forms brought from Europe by immigrants. Even though this style was in vogue only from 1720 to 1760 in America, its beautiful design elements still influence wood artisans of today.

Pride of Owning Antique Furniture at Your Home
Furniture plays a very important role in deciding the look of your home. Perfect set of furniture can make your home look stunning. If you have antique furniture at home, then it's a matter of pride and honor for you and zeal for your neighbors and relatives.

How to Recognize Antique Furniture?
Always on the look out for antique bargains at garage sales and flee markets? Make sure you know some of the basics to recognize real antique furniture.

Contemporary Floor Lamps Or Antique Style?
There are many designs and styles of floor lamps available, from antique style floor lamps to Tiffany floor lamps and then the more contemporary and modern looking floor lamp.

Useful Tips Before Buying Antique Furniture
Buying Antique furniture is an experience in itself. However, most people are ignorant about what to look for in an antique piece of furniture to make sure it is a genuine one. Read on to learn some of the finer aspects of identifying Antique furniture.

Let Your Life Shine With Antiquity
Antique furniture lends the extra dash required in home decoration. Antiques not only have a historical value but also the evergreen grace that refuses to grow old. Read on to appreciate the value of Antique furniture in our lives.

Good Finish – Vital For Antiques
Antique furniture lends grace to your home furnishings. The regal outlook of the antiques makes them the most sought after furniture in the town. A good finish on the antique furniture is what makes it the preferred choice. Read on the kinds of finishing available and the best option for your antique furniture.

Collecting only unique Chinese antiques – the what, how and why
About collecting unique antique Chinese snuff bottles, pendants and jade carvings. Explaining in what way these are so unique and why the author did not only collecting snuff bottles. Some useful thoughts for fellow collectors.