Category Archives: Hunting & Gathering

Buying Antiques

Do you love antiques? How do you know if what you’re buying is really antique, or just old? If you’re lucky, you have inherited a wonderful antique, one that you love, and you know it really is antique, because it has been passed down generation after generation in your family. However, if you are shopping [...]

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Buying & Caring for Antique Linens

    In the summer heat, nothing beats taking a nap on cool, wonderful linens. If those linens are antique, all the better, because nothing feels as cool, as luxuriously “comfy” as the linens made long ago. We’re so used to referring to sheets, tablecloths, and napkins as linens that we mostly forget the word actually [...]

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