Antiques Programmes

[smurfchops]

I can’t help watching them to see what rubbish they buy. Does anyone really want antiques these days?

[emmie]

i could afford to outfit the living room with reasonably priced antiques, but as i said i recently changed all the tables to a particular style, not antiques.

[emmie]

if i could afford the good stuff i would go for it, but they run into many thousands of pounds if not a lot more.

[TonyV]

Neither can we but got some nice looking bits from Jens astute eye. Got our leather settee from local paper it came with recling chair, which we sold for the same as we paid for both, just needed some elbow grease to clean it up.

[emmie]

bought a chesterfield sofa and chair, not too expensive, talk about a waste of money, it's material chenille not leather

[DarceyK123]

An item has to be over 100 years old to be called an Antique.

[emmie]

since when.

[DTCwordfan]

since a 100 years ago....

nope, Darcey is correct on this one....

[emmie]

https://www.antique-hq.com/the-difference-between-antique-vintage-and-collectible-item-127/

[emmie]

not going on the antiques programmes i have watched. nor the link i have provided

[DTCwordfan]

well that article does say that an antique is >100 years but there are folk trying to hijack the concept to lower it to 50. Personally, I think it comes down to whether you like it, antique or collectable or whatever. I'll also add that I'm not a great fan of Art Deco or the 40s/50s stuff....

[emmie]

i love Art Deco.

[DarceyK123]

Emmie - the link you have provided confirms its over 100 years, but it really doesn't matter if you like the item.

[emmie]

they keep moving the goalposts.

[emmie]

some stuff from yesterday could be cool to buy, some stuff from 100 years ago may not. Personally i would have liked to stock my living room full of antiques, but lack of funds doesn't allow me that privilege. Not only that i would be afraid of buying an antique only to discover it wasn't. I like Chippendale, Adams, and not Conran.