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Decorating Tips and Tricks

Secrets to Buying Antiques

Decorating Tips and Tricks

Bespoke FM

Arts, Design, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6827 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We love buying antiques! It's fun, but there are a few things you need to know before you hit the shops. First be sure you know your decorating style. Many antique items are not returnable, so you really want to be sure what you are buying is going to work in your home. Check out how to know your decorating style, in EPISODE 2 [HERE](https://decoratingtipsandtricks.com/episodes/episode-2-finding-your-decorating-style/)

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, your designers are here.

0:10.3

I'm Anita from Cedar Hill Farmhouse.

0:12.7

And I'm Yvonne at Stone Gable.

0:15.1

And I'm Kelly with My Soulful Home.

0:16.9

And we have tips and tricks and decorating advice for you today.

0:20.8

So let's get started. Thank you. And we have tips and tricks and decorating advice for you today.

0:22.1

So let's get started.

0:35.9

Today is episode 58, secrets to buying antiques.

0:39.1

I'm interested. I'm going to be a learner.

0:42.0

Well, this is one of my favorite things to do.

0:46.2

So, you know, one of my favorite things to do is to go to Roundtop and buy antiques.

0:47.4

So, yes.

0:53.6

Well, even when I think I know a lot of things about a topic, when I talk with you guys, I do learn things each time yeah yeah me too I think I'll be a

0:55.4

learner too learn things and want to spend money that's yeah exactly the urge to to go acquire

1:02.7

something I wanted to say first on buying antiques that there's a prerequisite to what we're coming

1:09.5

what we're going to be discussing today.

1:11.9

And that is, I think you really want to know what your decorating style is first, and really know

1:18.1

the direction you're headed in before you go shopping, not just for antiques, but for anything.

1:23.8

And I'm going to reference episode number two, or we talked about finding your decorating style.

1:29.3

Because you don't, especially, I'm going to say especially with antiques, because most of this stuff is not returnable.

1:34.3

So you don't want to be buying something coming home and then going, oh, this doesn't really work with my style.

1:40.1

So I want you to really think ahead of time, is this going to work with what I already have in my house?

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