Posted on 01/17/2009 8:36:39 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie
I don't have a clue. I've never bought furniture--unless an antique trunk counts. I have two marble tops...one is a a dry sink that I love. I have another table with the claw looking glass balls for feet. I'm not into antiques big time...I just liked the ones I have.
I grew up in a furniture store. Literally. My father was in the business for 50 years--new, used, antiques.
I can't tell one wood from another...or style. I just know what I like.
I know hard rock maple early american---and I don't like it.
I like my bed better than the Obamas...the posts are higher at the head than the foot. It's darker than theirs. The mirror on the dresser hangs from wooden "thingies" that hold it up.
Aren't you glad you asked what period mine is? LOL!
Bed Bugs.
They ain’t the First Family yet...
I would think in the family quarters they would send their own things..but didn’t they also have a story about new furniture for the kids and the kids get to decorate the rooms as they like? I don’t think them getting their own things for the private quarters, as long as they pay for it, is a big deal.
Your bed sounds beautiful and you’re very lucky to come from such a background. But I’m amazed that you don’t want to find out more about your bed—how old it is, what part of the US it came from originally, who made it, etc. It’s all so interesting.
And I hope they never are. Further comments withheld.
I have no clue where my dad got it...some things he got he didn't like to sell. He was a "horse-trader" and enjoyed trading used more than selling new furniture. This was one...I got it when I moved into a new apt. in Houston. I was too young to care. I still like it...the bed is high.
I got my favorite sofa from friends who had her parents' "first sofa" in their first apt. I liked the shape...didn't care if it was chocolate satin brocade with fringe around the cushions. I loved it so much they gave it to me when they moved. When I had it re-upholstered, the guy told me "never get rid of that sofa because they don't make frames like that anymore...no amount of $$$ could buy one." Her parents paid $750 for it in the 1930's...I've had it since 1968..it's about 75 years old. It doesn't look old...shape is still good and I still love it. My dad drove 150 miles to get it and take it to his store for safe-keeping...about 4 years later.
My dad called me his best...worst-paying customer.
I had friends who were antique dealers...bought in Europe, sold to dealers. She had the story of everything she had---and I always thought she made most of them up. LOL. She had a secretary insured for $100K and a Tiffany lamp that had never been wired...and a story for each on how they survived WW2. LOL!
Thank you. That’s a nice website they have. Very interesting.
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