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O.K. – so you like shopping for antique furniture and you have fun doing it but perhaps feel kind of dumb because some of the terminology is too say the least, unclear. Following is an explanation of some of the more common confusing expressions which we hope will save you some possible embarrassment and definitely…

In the mid-1600s a carpenter in ‘New Haven’ by the name of Thomas Mulninert created was is considered to be the very first piece of furniture made in America and by the end of the 17th century many more furniture makers emerged in order to keep up with the new demand for exquisite home furnishings….

To Throw Out Or To Keep, That Is Question? It happens to pretty much everyone at some time, you decide to do a major clean up of your house or apartment and you have to decide what to throw out and what to keep. Some things are easy because they have sentimental value whilst others…

The collecting of antiques can involve almost any type of item from almost any era in history providing it’s more than one hundred years old and deciding which area to focus on might be but needn’t be a very daunting one. If your primary interest in antique collecting is financial then your approach will be…

  The extraordinary adhesive capabilities of geckos and mussels have finally been combined to create a glue which unlike other adhesives that use only the ‘gecko’ principle work on both wet and dry surfaces. It works by coating a fibrous silicone which is similar in structure to a gecko’s foot with a polymer that mimics…