Need help evaluating antique bedroom furniture

There are certainly elements of art deco to this and it is of the same period. Most specifically, the way the exotic woods are geometrically used to outline the drawers and door, the little drop feather motifs on the top large drawer, and the fan shape at the bottom would fit with deco. The general form, turned legs, corner fluting, edge moldings on the tops, and hardware are all pretty traditional.

 

Thanks Brad.......that was kind of you.......I feel somewhat better now !

 

Thank you, Brad. As a general rule, would furniture from the past 100 years that is of higher value today already be rare and of greater value within a short time frame of when originally manufactured and purchased. In other word, for pieces to be of higher dollar value today, would they have typical costs beyond the viable reach of blue collar families at that time?

 

would they have typical costs beyond the viable reach of blue collar families at that time?

A lot depends on how they felt about used furniture.
They could have bought earlier stuff that was cheap at the time.

You mentioned PVC. Does this mean something other than polyvinylchloride in America. I'd not use a cheap inflammable plastic in decoration

 

About 60 years ago, my father jacked up the house to replace the "beams", which were huge tree trunks in the basement, and he replaced them with steel beams and steel supports. Unfortunately, a lot of area of the walls developed huge cracks, some of them 20 feet long! Some of these cracks were like when tectonic plates shift up against and actually pass each other! That, along with the house being 140 years old, not knowing what can of worms I might open if I started removing old materials and replacing with sheetrock, plaster, etc., etc., and not wanting to make a restoration lifework out of it, I opted to cover the walls with PVC 2X2 foot glue up tiles, as well as go over the tile ceilings with them, which were not affected as the walls were by the lifting and re-settling. Here are some of the results using the PVC tile. I didn't mention the company I purchase these from because I'm not sure if that would be considered advertising and be against board guidelines. I'm going through the house, room by room, choosing a different pattern for each one.

Taken from the living room looking into the main hallway:


Main Staircase:



Sunroom (added sometime after 1925) ceiling done in pearl white "tin-type" style PVC. The walls are covered in TrafficMaster Carrera marble tile:



Same for the adjoining kitchen. PVC white on the walls, TrafficMaster Carrera marble on the walls and cabinets:



Kitchen walls (white PVC) and the marble cabinets:



The gold and black figure in the sunroom window photo is the back of one of the statues in the front sunroom (Enclosed in the 1950s):



More of the front sunroom:



A different "marble" tile used on the walls and the same Carrera marble tiles used for the winged lion's pedestal.

 

talk about Egyptian revival............oh look...a Nubian Queen !!!!

 

She's the only one allowed on the throne. I'm only allowed to dust it and brush it!

 

her.......or the throne...? hawhahaha!!!!

 

A good rule of thumb is, that if it was expensive when new, it is more likely to be expensive today. Designer furniture holds its value for the most part. Of course this is not always true and some things that were inexpensive when new, bring good money later. Value is somewhat based on fashion so what might have been valuable at one point, may not be now. For example, oak Victorian furniture was the rage in the 70s-80s. It is out of fashion now and bringing half or less than what it was then.

 

Your tiles look fabulous, I love the red and gold ones

 

Understood. Thank you, Brad.

 

Thank you! Very easy to put up using cove base glue. The tiles that have a lot of depth to them, like the red and gold ones, don't flex like the ones I have in the other rooms, so they only need to have the glue applied the central 12 inch area or so, the edges stay flush overlapping each other because that style is more rigid. This is a huge time saver, not having to glue around the edges, which no matter how carefully you glue and apply, once applied and pushed down into place, the glue can ride up and over past your seem, requiring having to stop and thoroughly clean the glue off of the channel between the tiles.

The only application snag with these tiles is that the greater the depth, the deeper the relief of the pattern, the more you'll be able to see "behind" and into the edges of cut pieces, not so critical at wall and ceiling corners, but a problem around doorways and windows. So my solution was to add molding to the original Victorian molding already around the doors and windows, but mounted in reverse so the tile edges "disappear" into that molding and you can't see into the edge and the wall behind.

 

Nice source......I think my neighbor has a catalog, but with this.....who needs the catalog taking up space????!!

 

HOLY PATOOTIE!!!!! That's SOME place......or palace!!!!!

 

I don't think that telling us where you bought something is an issue.

 

I have been there a few times, and ordered from them, though I had an issue then.
If still up there...they have a quite interesting lighting museum.
They also sell old lighting and repros.

 

Wasn't sure if it would be considered the promotion of a business, understandably where commercial conflicts of interest exist for a forum's advertisers. Since it's not an issue, here they are:

https://www.talissadecor.com/ceiling-tiles/

 

If you posted something that was only about a biz that may be of issue. I suppose it depends. Direct marketing surely wouldn't be.
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Just yesterday I gave out biz info that may help many and so I felt it viable.