How to Identify Hepplewhite Style Furniture

Ever walk into an antique shop and wonder what the different styles of furniture represent?  There are so many beautiful styles of furniture.  Part of the fun when antiquing is identifying the styles.  Hepplewhite furniture is just one of the many unique and beautiful styles of furniture available.

About.com gives the following description and history of Hepplewhite furniture:  http://antiques.about.com/od/furniture/a/Hepplewhite120109.htm

Who is this artist/painter?

Last weekend I enjoyed 4 days at the beach along with quite a bit of antiquing for inventory purposes.  While shopping around,  I came across this beautiful oil on canvas painting.  I actually won this at a bazaar through a silent auction.  I have been researching the artist's name "G.Broliers" (see second picture).  So far, I am unable to locate the artist but I will keep on researching just in case this is one of those pieces that belong on the Antique Roadshow!

What interesting pieces have you found while antiquing?

 

Check out the cool landmark I used to locate one of the shops! 

 

What is Chippendale Style Furniture?

Ever wonder what Chippendale style furniture looks like?  The style is absolutely beautiful!  The following link http://antiques.about.com/od/furniture/p/aa071908.htm from our friends at About.com provide a nice description.  When I am out and about buying inventory and I come across Chippendale pieces, I must admit, I just want to keep it!  What's your preferred style?

Great Bed and Breakfast Homes

It's almost fall and such a beautiful time of the year, especially for travel! I came across this website http://www.antiqueproperties.com/listings/ that provides listings of antique/vintage homes and the first thing that came to mind was how great some of these homes would be for a bed and breakfast!  If you have not visited one yet I highly recommend it as the concept creates a very comfortable and pleasant "home" experience while traveling. 

Our friends at Wikipedia define it as: A bed and breakfast (or B&B) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast, but usually does not offer other meals. Since the 1980s, the meaning of the term has also extended to include accommodations that are also known as "self-catering" establishments. Typically, bed and breakfasts are private homes with fewer than 10 bedrooms available for commercial use.

Hope you enjoy the website!  Be sure to visit a B&B soon!  

Restoring Wooden Furniture Finish

Ever wonder how to clean or restore furniture finish?  I came across this article and thought I would share it with you.  There are some great tips that I use myself before I display furniture pieces in the shop.  Click on the link and take a look!  Good luck!

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/how-to-restore-wooden-furniture-finish.htm

Welcome to my revised blog!  It's so much more reader friendly and just an overall positive feel to it.  Thanks so much, Michelle, for your help, the blog looks so much better!

I thought I would share a link (http://www.classicboat.com) to some cool classic boats that just so happen to be for sale.  Take a few minutes and peruse through the pictures, these boats are quite unique.  I'm a huge boat fan.  Are you?

Hi! Once again, time has slipped by without me posting!  So I will once again make a better effort to post more frequently. 

It's been quite hot outside here in the VA/MD/DC area.  For those that lost your power during the recent storms, I hope by now you have power.  I know it has been quite the challenge. 

If you have not had a chance to stop by our shop, I would highly recommend it!  There are four dealers in one location and there is so much to see!  We have quite a few things on sale right now as we need to make room for new merchandise.

Feel free to let me know what you are shopping around for so I can keep a look out for you.  Once I find it, I will send a picture to you to see if you like it! 

Hope to see you soon!

Where Have I Been?!

HI!  Wow!  It has been six months since my last blog!  Really?  Not good, right?  OK, I will do a much better job at blogging more often, definitely more than once every six months : )

Things at the shop have been going very well.  Lots of merchandise coming and going.  So many things in the shop that I just want to keep for the house but I am running a business, right?  You should definitely stop by if you have not had a chance to do so.  If have already been to the shop, come on by soon as our merchaandise is always changing.

It's in the 70s this week so Spring is sneaking up on us.  Now we are getting outdoor merchandise ready and displayed.  Wrought iron, and of course cast iron, do very well.  Some of the iron pieces we even sandblast and repaint, depending on its condition. 

There are so many topics that I have on my list to blog about so get ready for my "more frequent" postings.

Have a great day!