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Exploring Antique Furniture and Home Decorating Ideas
Using Antique Furniture in Your Home
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Red Renaissance Dining Room
We recently mentioned that our client Susan D. in Metamora, IL, bought a set of twelve dining chairs from us for her Renaissance dining room. In that Antique Chair Upholstery Makeover post, we said we sometimes find vintage or antique chairs with a beautiful frame but the upholstery is worn. These chairs provide a great opportunity to our customers to...
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Victorian Restoration Dining Room
We know many of our clients are working on Victorian restorations and it's wonderful to see how they bring their homes back to their original style and beauty. Here's a case in point. Our client Sal S. in New York is restoring a beautiful Victorian home that had been neglected through the years. He's returning her to her former glory...
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Best of August 2013: Antique Inspirations
We explored vintage and antique inspirations in our August blog posts, from groovy vintage clothing to antique spinning wheels. Every day is full of antique inspirations here at the EuroLuxHome.com gallery of course, and I wouldn't have it any other way! Whether I'm unpacking a new container of hand-picked treasures from Europe or chatting with clients on the phone about...
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Renaissance Chairs and Buffet in Chateau Home, Illinois
Bob H. in Prairie Grove, Illinois, found us on One Kings Lane. His neighbor (who is a designer) saw our set of ten antique Renaissance chairs with rich buttery leather upholstery. She thought the wonderful aged patina on the leather looked like an old football! She also thought the Renaissance chairs dating to 1900 would be perfect for Bob's French...
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How to Sell Antiques and Vintage Items
We receive emails nearly every day from people asking how to sell antiques or vintage items. Sometimes they have inherited antiques, sometimes they are just downsizing or have another reason to let go of a piece of furniture or other antique that they have enjoyed for years. Either way, they aren't sure where to start. So here is our advice...
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Things We Love Right Now – August 2013
Most of our antique finds go straight into the EuroLuxHome.com gallery so they can become someone else's antique finds! But sometimes we come across antique or vintage pieces that we keep for ourselves. Here are some of our own antique finds that we love right now. Therese is our Shipping Manager and she also handles some restoration work and many...
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Best of July 2013: High Style for High Summer
We've explored high style for high summer in many of our July blog posts. Topics included the glitzy design of a French palace, traditional royal nursery decor, and a star-studded antique armoire in our gallery. But high style comes in many guises, so let's revisit some of our favorite July posts. I was thrilled to write the story behind this...
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What is Mechelen Style Antique Furniture?
Mechelen style antique furniture is very distinctive and exotic. It is heavily hand-carved with foliage and typically a pride of roaring lion heads too! People who know the Mechelen look often fall in love with it, but many Americans are not that familiar with this Flemish furniture style. This wonderful antique buffet currently in our gallery is an excellent example...
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Palace of Versailles Historic Interiors
I blogged earlier this month about a Louis XIV armoire formerly owned by late movie critic Gene Siskel. The walnut armoire dates to 1710 and is currently for sale in our gallery. That got me thinking about Louis XIV who was on the throne of France at the time this antique armoire was crafted. One of the greatest achievements of...
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Antique Chair Upholstery Makeover in Illinois
We often find vintage or antique chairs on our buying trips that are perfectly gorgeous, but the upholstered seat is showing its age! The seat caning needs to be fixed or the upholstery needs to be replaced. If the chair frame is beautiful quality and in good shape, then we go ahead and buy the chair anyway. We know someone...
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