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Casa Query: What Antiques Do You Own?

Wed, 04/23/2008 - 2:00pm by casasugar
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While integrating Ikea products into your home may be easy and affordable, they're not the most durable products you can buy, in terms of both style and quality. If you're lucky, you have a mix of high-quality new pieces as well as antiques to balance out and give a more grown-up look to your less expensive pieces. Although some antiques, especially if you've inherited them, may not be the pieces you swoon over while flipping through your favorite shelter magazine, they're often classics and quite resilient, since they've held up for so long already.

Antiques can be some of the most unique furnishings you own as well. As much as I love me a West Elm coffee table, I know all of my friends have seen it in the monthly mail-order catalog that shows up at their homes like clockwork. So tell me, what antiques do you own?
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  • tkoblondee's picture
    tkoblondee
    1

    A few baskets that my great grandparents owned, lots of knicknacks, a dining table and a chest of drawers....and I love them all!

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • IslandGirl's picture
    IslandGirl
    2

    I recently moved with my parents back to the island that my father is from and we're living in my grandmother's house. What makes it pretty cool is that the house was originally the "great house" on a coconut plantation and so it's FILLED with gorgeous antique pieces from the original plantation owners.

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • elle j's picture
    elle j
    3

    my house is filled with them. mostly from antique stores and thrift shops, but some were inherited as well..

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Mintie's picture
    Mintie
    4

    I have a gorgeous bed from the 30s in addition to a collection of cobalt glassware, some silver and a couple tables. The bed is by far my favorite... and I paid 20 bux for it!

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • tweet hotpants's picture
    tweet hotpants
    6

    The desk i'm sitting at right now was my grandmothers growing up- it's beautiful and i'll keep it forever!

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • drinkerofh2o's picture
    drinkerofh2o
    7

    Just a few items of jewelry from my mom's side and a non-working wall clock from my dad's. I'd like to get more, but I'm in a transitional state right now.

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • colormesticky's picture
    colormesticky
    8

    I have:

    a Japanese painting I desperately need to get cleaned, but don't know how or where to have it done

    A tea set that has Geisha photos in the bottoms of the teacups when you hold them up to the light

    A few books

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • JEJJessica's picture
    JEJJessica
    9

    A 1927 cedar chest my grandmother saved from the dump to refinish that I then had to refinish again because my mother painted in her middle school years, 1940's early manufactured chest of drawers and dresser, along with turn of the century silver utensils in a wooden case I inherited from my father's side.

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • okmaebe's picture
    okmaebe
    10

    I don't own a single antique, well, except a really old copy of Pride and Prejudice, but I don't think that counts.

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • RosaDilia's picture
    RosaDilia
    11

    I need to look into stuff my mother gave me that she inherited from a friend. She gave it to me because she did not have room for it. Most of the furniture she inherited have really old labels on the bottom, china from "Brooks Brothers" and other fine china marked "Made in Occupied Japan" don't know how much value that has.

    37 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • haze's picture
    haze
    13

    Oh. You've seen my living room as a work in progress. Every stick of furniture and every accessory in it is authentic. There are no repros anywhere in my house. Now that is not to say that I have not refurbished and/or repurposed. I've done a lot of that.

    37 weeks 18 hours ago Report Comment
  • emalove's picture
    emalove
    14

    My parents have a lot of beautiful antique furniture that I hope to own someday...but all I have in my home now is an antique vanity table and bench and an antique desk.

    37 weeks 13 hours ago Report Comment
  • MrsJigglesworth's picture
    MrsJigglesworth
    15

    My favorite antique that I own is a prohibition bar that closes up to look like a chest.

    also:
    antique barware like shakers and depression glass
    an antique farm table that we use as a desk in our study;
    books;
    a marble topped table (don't know the name or design, but it is beautiful)

    I actually just got rid of several other pieces that I tried to fit into our house, but couldn't find a space.

    37 weeks 10 hours ago Report Comment
  • tdamji's picture
    tdamji
    16

    i have a lot of antique kitchen stuff, like mixing bowls, trays, serving ware, etc. and also vases, nick-nacks, and such - my favorite antique piece is my 100+ year old chinese bench which we use as a coffee table. i have lots of vintage furniture that is less than "antique" age, like mid-century modern desks.

    36 weeks 6 days ago Report Comment
  • harmonyfrance's picture
    harmonyfrance
    17

    I have an antique mirror collection. I have two 1950's stainless steel medical units. One is like a hutch and one is more like a large curio cabinet. They are huge and weigh a ton. I've taken them with me all over the country. I can't bear to part with them. Smiling

    36 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • kkbutler's picture
    kkbutler
    18

    I have a few chairs and a coffee table that are antique. I love the shape of antiques but assuming they arent one of a kind priceless pieces I prefer them to be updated with a more modern stain or paint job.

    36 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment

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