| Antiques with scars, stories add charm, warmth to homes
I am a sucker for old furniture. Whether it's a valuable antique or a vintage piece, these aged beauties, with their graceful lines and imperfections, lend warmth and character to their surroundings. I think furniture with a past adds oodles of interest to a space and gives a home a lived-in look. If you want to become a serious collector of antiques and invest in pieces of great value, you'll want to do your homework first. Reams of books and a host of Web sites can help educate you about what makes some pieces more valuable than others and what you should look for when selecting different kinds of antiques. But if you're like me, when you look for furniture for your home, you are less concerned with scouting out fine antiques and more interested in finding timeless treasures that will win your heart.
Longtime antique store owner dies at 77
When Shirley Dalton died early last week, Hutchinson's downtown antiques district lost one of its longtime business owners.
Dalton, 77, owned Down Home Antiques at 129 South Main. She died Jan. 8. Jim Seitnater, Hutchinson's downtown development director, said Dalton was an early presence in an effort that blossomed into a corridor of small businesses. "She was one of the original members in the antique district," Seitnater said. "She did some nice improvements on a great building there on the corner at B and Main. She helped lead the way like so many others in the area." Lloyd Armstrong, who owns Armstrong's Antiques three buildings north of Down Home, said when his shop opened, Dalton's store was one of few options for antique shoppers. Back then, Down Home was in a building in the next block south, just north of Smith's Market, Armstrong said.
An Unassuming Wife Brings Web 2.0 to Atlanta Service Providers
Demoralized and frustrated with trying to find service professionals in her area a woman takes action. As a recent Atlanta house wife she starts a robust web 2.0 service to acquire affordable and competitive products and services in her city. Atlanta, GA (PRWeb) February 5, 2007 -- Mamtha was an unassuming new bride when she moved to the USA. Although Mamtha A (short for Anantharaman) was marrying a software programmer, she had no aspirations to become an Internet entrepreneur and innovator. Launching an edgy Web 2.0 web application called AtlantaBestBargains.com was the farthest thing from her mind when she first arrived in the United States from India. She would probably have lived the life of a dutiful wife like so many traditional women from her country if the adage "necessity is the mother of invention" didn't still ring so true.
Mark Rutledge: What does 'Antiques Roadshow' know about step ...
These people who bring their furniture to TV's "Antiques Roadshow" never seem interested in actually selling. Someone tells me my rug is worth $57,000, I believe I would quickly part company with said rug. I look around my house and see only one inanimate object I would not sell at any price. It's the well-worn step stool I built in Mr. Geisler's seventh-grade shop class in Johnson City, Tenn. My classmates and I mass-produced enough for each of us to have two stools. The four-piece construction, using 2-by-10 pine planks with routed edges and decorative cuts, was Mr. Geisler's design. He assigned the project after a chance meeting with a former student whose class had made the same stool 10 years earlier. "He came over to me," Mr.
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