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With the huge array of furniture on display today, from retro to funky and modern, why is it that antique furniture has come back with a ven...

With the huge array of furniture on display today, from retro to funky and modern, why is it that antique furniture has come back with a vengeance?  Perhaps it is the fact that unlike the many ultra minimalist furniture pieces out there, antique furniture can be simple, easy to live with, and often has a character that fits well with any interior design scheme you choose to go with.

As much as antique furniture does often add a real touch of class to an often characterless modern interior, these pieces of furniture were quite often made for the ordinary person on the street, not some wealthy statesman or aristocrat. Also, antique furniture reproduction has a wonderful way of letting us temporarily escape the frenetic pace of modern life, allowing us to look back at more genteel times when things were simpler and often more elegant.

Past building materials were often from much stronger than those now used today. Solid oak, walnut tree and mahogany were far more plentiful in the past. Many antique furniture pieces have far wider boards of wood than you ever see now. Trees today are fast grown to a much smaller commercially viable size. A few hundred years ago hard wood trees were far more plentiful and much greater in age, therefore much wider in girth. The durability of hardwoods such as oak mean there are still many antique furniture pieces on the market today, just waiting to be snapped up.

So if you have decided a piece of antique furniture would brighten up your living space where do you begin? Leather sofas that are antique by design are hard to locate. It is well worth your time thinking about what type of leather sofa you are most interested in, and where you would want to place it. What type of antique look would you be interested in? Do you want rustic examples, such as French country sofas? Perhaps the sleekness of art deco models are more your thing? Victorian furniture is wonderfully ornate. Simplicity can be seen in many American Primitive furniture pieces. Once you know what you want it is then far easier to go ahead and hunt out the best places to find such antiques in.

Some of the most useful places to visit are antique shops in your local area. These places by their very nature specialise in assembling a wide variety of antiques, far larger than you would normally see anywhere else. A real favourite of the antiques collector are the antique auctions that take place. Consulting the internet and phone books will also greatly help you to hone down places that are worth your time visiting.

Once you’ve got your list of suitable venues to check out, keep your eyes wide open. Antiques are not mass-produced, rather they are often limited in number, or even one offs, never to be seen again once purchased. When you see something that really takes your fancy you should stick with it and barter down the owner. In the case of an auction, you typically face antiques dealers who are trying to make a profit. So long as you keep on raising the bid you are likely to make them unprofitable and therefore win.

If you like the look of antiques, but can’t take the necessary time out to carefully consider and hunt them down, there are a wide range of  antique furniture companies stocking all kinds of antique style furniture, at very decent prices. Gorgeous old-styled furniture such as that of the Chesterfield sofa are easy to find and often readily available online or at a local furniture outlet.