If you’ve shopped for furniture, you have definitely been confronted with this fact: it can be really expensive. While you can get run of the mill furniture that doesn’t really stand out from what else is out there, the great furniture that sticks around in your home for many years and that you grow to love usually has a vintage or designer quality to it and those unfortunately also carry a high price when bought from the growing number of vintage furniture stores.
However, one of the best tricks for getting around these high prices is going to a flea market and finding one of these pieces being sold out of some dusty warehouse or forgotten basement by people who are just trying to make space in their homes or businesses. This is, of course, where those vintage design store owners go to buy the furniture they mark up to ridiculously high prices, so you’ll be essentially cutting out the middle man.
You’ll need to have an eye for the top quality furniture, however. Most of the great pieces may need some work, namely a fresh coat of top quality Majic Paints, which will protect the piece and literally give it new life. Doing this will take a little time out of an afternoon, but it will save you literally hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a piece that you found at one of these flea market sales.
So here’s what you need to do: find a flea market that’s off the beaten path, since people regularly throng to these types of markets these days. Maybe find a couple flea markets in a day, so you can devote a whole morning to it. Get there early so you have the first choice on everything and when you find a piece you like, test it out. Open all the drawers. Move it from side to side to make sure it is structurally sound. Sit in it and make sure it is comfortable and can support you. Imagine where it would go in your home or business and try to visualize it with that fresh coat of Majic Paints that will bring it back to life. Anything that isn’t quite right with the piece will allow you a bargaining angle on it, driving down the price so you can get a better deal. You’ll have to repair it yourself of course, so why shouldn’t it be cheaper?
Then buy it and get to work! You’ll be amazed at the longevity of an old piece of furniture with only a few repairs and a fresh coat of paint. After you have fixed this old piece up, head to one of those overpriced vintage furniture stores and see what they are charging, so you can feel happy about how much money you just saved.
