How is it that something as lovely as this could be dumped?
It's around 250 years old, maybe more, and has been polished so often it feels like silk. Despite being mahogany, it is a completely different colour to my grandmother's chest of drawers upstairs. Did you know that no two pieces of mahogany are the same colour?
Antiques are the ultimate in recycling. They don't use up valuable resources being made new. They're not poisening the planet or us by offgassing manufacturing fumes like MDF and laminate do. They don't fall apart on you like chipboard furniture does, and if you knock them the marks can be polished out or invisibly restored.
At the moment, brown wood furniture is apparently not 'fashionable' and it has no real aesthetic or financial value to the 'proper' collectors, so us mere mortals who love the stuff are having a field day finding wonderful bits of furniture cheaply. In the next few years the prices are going to rise and they'll turn into investment pieces. Maybe not for another 20 years or so, but I'm in it for the long haul, and at the end of the day I still have amazingly functional furniture that will be here long after I've shuffled off the mortal coil.
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That is really rather lovely! Score for you :-)
Posted by: Maria | June 20, 2014 at 10:39 PM