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Decorating Tips and Tricks

Gettin' Real, Treasure Hunting Truths

Decorating Tips and Tricks

Bespoke FM

Arts, Design, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6827 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk how to know when you've got the real McCoy! Is it real? Is it fake? Is it worth anything? We're talking about some of our favorite antique pieces and what we look for when we're shopping. How do you know when the silverware is French? Can you tell if a dish is ironstone? Listen in.

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0:00.0

We're getting real today, so tune in.

0:11.4

Hey, everybody.

0:12.3

I'm Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks.

0:16.6

Getting real, treasure hunting truths.

0:19.6

We are going to give you all the information you need to be a sleuth when you're out thrifting and at estate sales and flea markets and in antique shops.

0:31.4

Anita and I are sharing a lot of our secrets of what we look for and how you can, you know, scan white elephant tables and racks

0:39.6

and shelves and zero in on the diamond in the rough.

0:45.1

Yes.

0:45.5

And after you've listened to the episode, I think the best thing to do is to go to some

0:51.0

place where they have a lot of antique or vintage things and play what I like

0:55.9

to call, where was this made?

1:00.4

Wow, I didn't play this game with you when we were in Roundtop.

1:04.5

It was more, what was I playing?

1:06.8

Where is the bathroom?

1:08.1

Well, there was that.

1:09.3

Where is the money machine?

1:10.4

Yeah, that's Roundtop for you. Yeah. where is the bathroom? Oh, well, there was that. Where is the cold drink stand?

1:12.7

Yeah, that's round top for you.

1:14.5

I'm talking really about dishes.

1:16.4

I play a game.

1:17.3

I look at the front and I try to guess where it was made before I turn it over.

1:21.9

When I first started playing this game, I was really bad at it.

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