Small chairs, Big deal

Consignment shops can yield some great furniture and accessory pieces, but like antique malls and stores, you have to visit fairly often to find the out-of-the-ordinary piece before someone else comes and snatches it. The best advice is, if you see something you like at a consignment shop, buy it when you see it because most likely it will be gone before you come back. Most large towns have at least a couple of these stores. Many area small towns have at least one, although the inventory selections will not be as great, but prices will probably be lower than the bigger towns.

We were looking for some small size occasional chairs to fit in a living room that had plenty of seating for large size people, but nothing for smaller adults or children. A pair of these very fine quality club chairs fit the bill.

The jewel tone colors of the fabric stripes perfectly accented the reds, greens, and golds of the other furniture and draperies in the room.

The colors and the striped fabric also coordinated well with the bold Waverly wallpaper in the adjoining dining room.

These were high end quality chairs, manufactured by Henredon and were in like new condition. Cost new is estimated at $500 each. We got these for $100. each.

We found these at City Consignments in downtown Bloomington, IL. This is a store we really love. It encompasses two buildings with several floors and is surrounded by other quaint shops in the revitalized downtown area. There are lots of good restaurants downtown, so you can spend the whole day in downtown Bloomington shopping all specialty stores.

Everything we have found at City Consignments has been clean and odor free and we have spent several thousand dollars there over the past few years. We've purchased upholstered pieces and case goods, and all were reasonably priced and in very good to excellent condition.