The Process Of Buying Furniture At Yard Sales

When buying furniture at yard sales, you have a wealth of options to choose from, but you must have a discerning eye when making those purchases.

Perhaps you’re the creative type and are thinking of designing your favorite images on furniture. If you don’t already have an old piece of furniture to practice on, shopping yard sales is the best way to come up with a piece.

Feel free to keep on buying yard sale furniture if you are motivated by your creativity and personality in terms of design. If you are looking for a particular piece to use, take time to look the furniture over to make sure you are getting a solid piece at a good deal.

Let us start with a quick enough example — you are wanting to purchase a small dresser for your guest room, and want it with a country flair to it — the very first thing you want to ensure is the furniture’s condition. You can give almost any style the look you want, as long as the furniture is sturdy and in good condition. Give the furniture a look-over — is there any evidence of buckled wood, or perhaps a few scratches too deep to be sanded out properly? But if you are looking for something old and rustic, the scratches might actually add to the old-world flavor. But take note that buckling is a serious concern especially when it comes to the drawers, which may be especially hard to close or open. Uh, you don’t want warped furniture for very obvious reasons.

If you are shopping for sofas, loveseats, chairs and other related types of furniture, there are a few things to remember before making that purchase. Will you be using the furniture as it is or do you plan to give it a fresh coat of paint or some new fabric treatment? Is it clean-looking? Ask the seller if the furniture has been used recently in a home or if it has been in storage. If it has been stored, ask if the storage unit was climate controlled. It would be quite likely you will become very well acquainted with household pests and/or mildew in due time. Make sure you look the seating over good check out its frame, springs, cushions and the over all wear. If you believe that such furniture is in decent shape and can get a good deal for it, then what’s stopping you?

Anybody wanting to delve deeper into furniture shopping through yard sales and make it into a full-time hobby needs to read up about the different types of furniture. Reading and researching will give you the wherewithal to discern merely good, solid deals from great finds and savings. And in case you are planning to recycle your archaeological finds from a few yard sales ago, the last thing you want is to paint over a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture. By knowing the nuances of furniture – what is unique and truly special and what is something you can merely convert from garbage to gold – you can save yourself the agony of realizing you just painted corny little fishies and seashells over a classic piece of Americana. Due to the questionable veracity of Internet data on antiques and uniques, you’ll want to do all your research on old furniture in the library. Once you emerge from the old library a wiser man or woman, you’ll be hitting the yard sale scene like Tom Brady on the first day of the NFL season, confident and able to spot a great find just like Mr. Brady spots receivers for a touchdown pass!

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