Certain Pyrex pieces including primary colors nesting bowls, butter print Cinderella casseroles and glass percolators are bringing decent money. There are some niche categories like vintage Japanese made radios, 70's stereos with turntables and 35mm film cameras.....are also improving. China and large furniture is weak due to the weight and transport factors. In my area anyway.
Yes, I have noticed this. Glad I have never owned a set of china. I do have a few pieces of it that was MY grandmother's--and I use it! Use your stuff now, and wear it out. Don't worry if you break it. Cuz, what the heck, seems no one else cares.
My mom just passed away in May and her big overstuffed furniture (like new) is still sitting in her empty house. We couldn't sell it and none of us wants it.
As for the big brown furniture, I notice a trend among the millenials is to buy this stuff cheap, sand it down, paint it white then distress it. You might market it to them that way.
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already!
Those are really beautiful green and white dishes Tybee. Beautiful. However, my actual dishes are Correlle , so I am not the market I'm afraid!
I haven't always cared what things look like either (though I don't mind my dishes). I call it simple living. I also don't travel much. I call it simple living
Trees don't grow on money
Haha, IL. Yes, I realize that. I was pretty much joking
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The thrift stores here won't even take china cabinets because no one wants them. A friend of mine ended up giving away old china to a thrift store because it was so cheap on ebay not worth the effort. I ended up selling my curio cabinet that looked like new for 50 and I paid 200 20 years ago. I gave all the antique glassware and hummels to a husky rescue that has a thrift store. In my son's home they have 2 candles, a vase and a bowl as decorations and that is it. About 6 years ago we had a huge garage sale before downsizing and we had 40 boxes of books. 2 book dealers came and bought many of them. What did not sell went to a thrift store. I have had good luck selling furniture and appliances on Craig's list but it must be cheap. I also used offer up last time and I sold stuff that I was unable to sell on CL.
Please consider buying a old round pedestal table, an antique. Save it feom the landfill! And then buy chairs separately, perhaps modern ones.
I am not sure what "too big" means but you can find 100 year old tables that are 40"ish in diameter that are beautiful.
I love my civil war era table so much, I get veeklempt when I think about it. It is, at its basic layput, about 42" in diameter, and then it has many leaves that expand it out to seat 10 people. It has a beautiful skirt that prevents very tall people from sitting comfortably because it was made for small mid-Vctorian people, but DH and I are short, so that is ok.
when we were young and our kitchen was small all the round oak dr tables were too big. Then we found a bar table that was perfect. It was round, oak etc but just smaller in size.
I mix my 1927 oak table with my 3 dollar plastic school chairs, which I spraypainted gloss white, which now look kind of like this:
So you can certainly mix these elements very handily, but I too would go for the oak 20's pedestal table, which are lovely.
Okay, I just looked up the docsta materials, which are as follows:
Table top: Fiberboard, Acrylic paint
Leg: Reinforced polyamide
Mounting plate/ Inside leg: Steel, Pigmented epoxy/polyester powder coating
So I think recycling a 20's table--you can paint it white--might be the environmental winner? Only problem is it is heavy!!!!!
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