Everyday Antiques: For Every Room of Your Home

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Summary: A common sense guide for the collecting hobbyist
Review: JJ Despain has written a well-told story of modern-day treasure hunting. Everyday Antiques reads like good advice from your best friend on the ropes of collecting and discovery in the world of flea markets, antique malls and shows, thrift stores, auctions and yard sales. Despain is a collector and antiques dealer in Indiana, specializing in the supplying to interior designers. She has drawn from her life experience and shares her experts advise with the reader. She'll make you giggle while giving you her mother's wit advice. This book illustrates to the collecting hobbyist how to acquire antiques and collectibles that are comfortable with which to live; and decorating advice on filling your home with curious, affordable, useful, and even valuable objects that reflect the home owners personal style. Everyday Antiques is filled with illustrations, exemplifying how items that don't serve their primary purpose anymore can be used in new and creative ways. Some of her examples include old fashion ice tongs to hold your toilet tissue rather than a modern day plastic devise, and how an antique sewing machine base can hold your 21st century microwave oven. There is hidden potential that can be uncovered in many antiques, and Despain's guide can assist you with this discovery. She's got the insiders "scoop", and if you are looking for someone to show you the ropes, Everyday Antiques is for you.