Homestead Antiques Llc

Well, it's a shop that I started almost 40 years ago, and we started out in the house in 79 with five other dealers, and we sell a mixture of antiques, country, Victorian. Then in two years after that, so many dealers wanted to join us that we started to open up the barn, and that's how we got to 35 dealers, and we sell everything. We just don't bring merchandise in and pile it up on top of a table, and you have to go through it. Our shop is all staged. We have some dealers who are very good on doing interior designing, and will help you put a room together. We also let you take merchandise out for 24 hours to try it. We have ladies who come in who have a wall, and they take a couple mirrors and a couple pictures and a couple shelves. They pay for it, take it home, put their wall together. The next day, they bring their merchandise back and get their money back. That's one of the features that we've always had. Matter of fact, I sold a table and chairs. The husband didn'take it home for a whole week and see if you And if not, bring it back. You'll get your money back. And he loved it, and they kept it. And they've been coming back here and buying their furniture. But we try to work with the customers. Most of our furniture is from the early 1900s, and it'solid. It's made out of wood. It's not pressed wood. It's real wood furniture. We sell an awful lot of tables and chairs, a lot. Dressers, a lot of jewelry. The barn is just so unique. If I'm there, and we have little children in there, I can tell them what was in all the rooms before the rooms got refurbished into the shop. I mean, I could tell you where the cows were and the horses were and different things But the barn is just a barn, and it'so different. Because everything is set up in rooms, and there again, everything is staged. Sometimes you get into one dealer and get to know this dealer and say, I'm looking for this or looking for that, and they will go out and see if they can find it for you. We give people free delivery. That's another service that people are amazed with, that the delivery is free. It's exciting as to what dealers go into somebody's home and end up buying and bringing in. It's And there's a lot of things you've never, ever seen before. So it's a challenge. If you see something that you It helps you get the piece and not lose it. Because people do come in and say, I saw this here a month ago. Well, it's not here anymore. So it's gone. So when you see it, you need to buy it. And we'll work with you. We will work with you.