Antique/consignment furniture?

[Anonymous]

We need a few furniture pieces for our house. Love vintage and rustic pieces and would prefer to find something used if possible- or perhaps from a local furniture maker out of reclaimed/salvaged wood. Otherwise I feel like our budget only gets us World Market/IKEA and would prefer something more solid and well made. Found a great old buffet on Craigslist last year but for some things just haven't had luck for some other things (e.g. wine cabinet). I like Miss Pixies and was wondering if there are similar options out there (slightly cheaper would be good too, although I don't think her prices are too bad really)? Or even straight-up furniture consignment stores? Where have other folks been successful?

[Anonymous]

Estate sales. Most of them have photos that you can see in advance to see if they are worth going to. www.estatesales.net has all the listings, I think.

Do a search here for consignment furniture stores. Here is a list I made a while ago, some may not be around anymore.

Used Furniture Stores
Consignment Solutions in Leesburg (bigger store) and Manassas: http://www.consignmentsolutions.com/
Model Home Furniture Clearance Center in Gaithersburg, MD: http://www.modelhomeclearance.com/
Capital Consignment DC and Bethesda: https://www.facebook.com/CapitalConsignmentDc
The Back Dorr, 2711 Dorr Avenue, Fairfax, VA 22031 (Merrifield) [phone], and The Front Porch, 920 West Broad Street, Falls Church, VA 22046 [phone] http://www.frontporchfurniturerescue.com/
Cort Furniture Clearance Center http://www.cortclearancefurniture.com/clearance-locations
Cort Clearance Center 13946 Lee Jackson Highway Chantilly VA 20151. Telephone: [phone]
CORT Furniture located at 5720 General Washington Dr. Alexandria, VA 22312. Ph# [phone].
Habitat for Humanity Restore: http://www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx
Northern Virginia Restore-Alexandria, 7770-G Richmond Highway
Northern Virginia ReStore-Chantilly, 4262 Entre Ct Chantilly, Virginia 20151
Montgomery Co, Maryland ReStore
, 9100 Gaither Rd, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877
Prince Wm Co-Man & Man ReStore, 9506 Ctr St, Manassas, Virginia 20110
Resale store next to the Walmart on the northbound lanes of Rt. 1 in Alexandria
Home Anthology in Catonsville, MD http://www.homeanthology.com/
Eisenhower Consignments http://eisenhowerconsignment.com/Miss Pixie's: http://www.misspixies.com/ , Also, some ideas from Miss Pixie's website...
Kaboodle Home Home Gallery 16801 Crabbs Branch Way Rockville, MD 301/ 670-0766 Evolution Home 6239 Shields Ave Alexandria, Virginia 703/ 519-1911
Sage Consignment 4228 Howard Avenue Lower Kensington, MD 301/ 530-5723
Ruff and Ready 4722 14th Street NW, DC 202/ 726-2600
GoodWood 1428 U Street NW, DC 202/ 986-3640
Millennium 1528 U Street NW, DC 202/ 483-1218
Brass Knob 2311 18th Street NW, DC 202/ 332-3370
Mom N Pop Antiques 3534 Georgia Avenue NW, DC 202/ 722-0719
Modern Mobler 7313 Georgia Avenue NW, DC 571/ 594-2201
Corehaus DC 825 Upshur Street NW, DC 202/ 629-3966
Foundry 819 Rear 11th Street, NE
Mercedes Bien 2423 18th st NW, DC 202/360-8481
Simon Vintage 1911 9TH Street NW, DC 202/ 629-2517
Hunted House 510 H Street NE, 202.549.7493

[Anonymous]

That is an amazing list. Thanks for posting.

[Anonymous]

OP here- thank you!

[Anonymous]

There are also quite a few antique stores with lots of furniture in Frederick, MD.

[Anonymous]

Old Lucketts in Leesburg is great for things like this.

[Anonymous]

The store described as 'next to the walmart' on northbound Route in alexandria is Evolution Home. They post photos of new arrivals on their facebook page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The store described as 'next to the walmart' on northbound Route in alexandria is Evolution Home. They post photos of new arrivals on their facebook page.

Thank you! Evolution Home is noted later on the list so I will take that entry out. This was compiled from responses on the DCUM listserv a while back which is why it's kind of messy, and I have not visited all of them, but I keep the list as a note in my phone and try to stop into places like this whenever I can. And it doesn't include Gallery St. Elmo in Bethesda which is one of my favorites!
- List PP, who has two 2000-SF homes furnished almost exclusively from craigslist, estate sales, antiques and consignments

Happy hunting, all!

[Anonymous]

I just wish more of these stores had regularly updated websites like Pixies. They mostly keep relatively short hours, and w/a FT job and 2 kids it's almost impossible to keep tabs on what they might have in stock. I check Pixies website every week and I've bought several things there over the years as a result.

[Anonymous]

Some of the local flea/farmer's markets might have stuff like that. I've seen furniture and salvage sellers at Eastern Market and the Saturday market at Courthouse metro. (I actually bought a beautiful dresser and a nice set of nightstands from a guy at Courthouse a couple years ago. He delivered them for $20 - I just had to help him carry them into the house.)

[Anonymous]

I also recommend Sloan and Kenyon's Auction House and their Consignment shop, both at the same location on Wisconsin Ave in Bethesda. There is another very good auction house in downtown DC, can't remember the name of ii, but it is directly across from the FBI building.

[Anonymous]

The antique stores in Kensington have some nice things - I got a '40s desk for $75 there once. And there's a consignment shop in Rockville on, like Parklawn, over by the tile store and pan American supermarket.

[Anonymous]

Reporting back that Kaboodle in Rockville was a disappointment. They have a few nice pieces, but you can see them on the website. It's a very small store and one of the ladies who works there is obnoxious and a loud mouth.

[Anonymous]

We went to Habitat for Humanity's ReStore in Silver Spring (just opened) and it had a lot of furniture, most of it in good condition. It's right next to the Babies R Us on Plum Orchard Drive.

They had a lot of dining sets, chairs, couches, and in the back they had their hardwood furniture; desks, kitchen cabinets, dressers. Also bathroom materials (sinks, toilets, and tile).

Some of the wood furniture looked just OK, but some of it was really nice and just needed a good cleaning (dusty, maybe minor scratches).

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We went to Habitat for Humanity's ReStore in Silver Spring (just opened) and it had a lot of furniture, most of it in good condition. It's right next to the Babies R Us on Plum Orchard Drive.

They had a lot of dining sets, chairs, couches, and in the back they had their hardwood furniture; desks, kitchen cabinets, dressers. Also bathroom materials (sinks, toilets, and tile).

Some of the wood furniture looked just OK, but some of it was really nice and just needed a good cleaning (dusty, maybe minor scratches).

Good luck!

I had no idea this had opened- thanks! Way more convenient than trekking up to Gaithursburg.