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Antique Furniture Collector Tips: Setting a Theme
Antique Furniture Collector Tips: Setting a Theme
Antique Furniture collections are rewarding because you gain works of art that are both beautiful AND functional. Unlike collecting vases, tools, portraits, and similar antiques, furniture makes for an equally impressive showroom but at the same time can actually be used for day to day activities.
If you prefer to use them for purely show purposes that's fine too.
One of the best things about antique furniture, however, is that you can use it to actually set the mood for your antique showrooms. This is especially true if you collect other antique household items aside from furniture.
To that end, you can set a theme for your antique collections. For example, if you're fond of the victorian era you can buy an antique four poster bed, coffee table, and cabinets. THEN you can ramp up the collection by adding antique books published during that era for the shelf, old porcelain cups and saucers for the coffee table, silverware, and other similar items.
Setting a theme like this is a good way to channel your hobby, as it will separate your showroom from the average collector's. Regular antique collector's showrooms often wind up looking like a shop, with items displayed like they're at an art gallery or museum. By setting a theme for your work, people who enter your showroom will wind up feeling like they've been transported to another time and place.
As I said earlier, the backbone of a theme showroom is the furniture. The very act of doing research for a theme can also be a pleasure in itself, as you will start off by finding out more about that time and place, then moving on to the culture and lifestyle of the people. After this initial research, then you move on to find out what furniture was often used in certain rooms, and in what combinations they were found.
After determining the furniture then you can move on to the other accessories that can make your theme come alive, so you'll probably wind up looking for antique dining ware, weapons and weapon racks for the walls, antique rugs to set near the couches, brass bookends for the shelves... the possibilities are endless and can provide you with months of pleasure as you scout around for everything you'll need. So if you collect antique furniture but want to add an extra element to your hobby, you can't go wrong by setting a showroom theme!
