About Antique Bedroom Furniture

Video Transcript

"So you're looking for an antique bedroom set. And you're not quite sure what to get. I'm Blake Kennedy and I'm here at Patty and Friends Antique Mall. A lot of people have a misconception when they say I'm looking for antique furniture. They think they can get stuff that's just mahogany, it has that antique look. You got to make sure if you really are looking for an antique piece of furniture, that you go in looking for something that well, over a hundred years old. That's what an antique is, it has to be over a hundred years old. And if that's the look that you're looking for, that's great. But you got to understand. The antique furniture from - the antique furniture is well made but you got to make sure that if you want a king sized bed, you're not going to get a king sized bed when it comes to antique furniture. You're not even going to get a queen sized bed to match that bedroom set because they only made fulls and twins back when they were putting together complete bedroom furniture. So if you go into a home and think oh that's a nice antique set, don't be surprised, it's probably from the nineteen-twenties to the nineteen-forties, if it's mahogany. Mahogany is a very popular bedroom set and so is oak. But if you're still looking for that look, you might have to match it and piece it together because antique furniture or bedroom sets might have been split up. You know, a dresser might have went to one part of the family, a bed went to the other family, the wash stand might have went to another set of the family, so it's going to be hard to go in and find one complete antique set of bedroom furniture if that's what you're looking for. You might have to go to different shops and different antique locations and an antique mall is a good place to go because you have sixty or seventy different dealers that are dealing in antique pieces, so you might be able to piece together an antique bedroom set by going into each individual booth and shops and do that. But to find a complete set and they might say yes this is an antique set, but look at the dovetails and see if they're machine made, 'cause it's probably again from the twenties and forties. So have a good time looking for that bedroom set, make sure it's the one that you want. I'm Blake Kennedy, thank you very much."