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...Veronica Fowler and her husband Giles just dismantled the living room in their 1930s Cape Cod--style home in Ames, tearing down two walls to add volume and connect it to the needs of the present. Says Veronica, a garden writer and renovation addict: "When you move into a house, you're moving into the lifestyle of that era. If it's a 1970s house, you will have to suffer the conversation pit. Our 1930s house was small. People's needs, desires and expectations were completely different than they...
...makes perfect sense, says Bernard Beck, a sociologist at Northwestern University. As children have become more powerful and vocal, and present, adults have a greater need to pull back. "I love my children, and I spend enormous amounts of time with them--there is no escaping them," chuckles Veronica Fowler, a mother of three, who added a new master bedroom suite next to the expanded living room. "But there is [the idea of] creating a buffer zone. I desperately want a calm, clean, quiet place where I can go--maybe just for 15 minutes if I'm lucky--and read...
...prefer mirrors, Chartres Street's Mirror Mirror has about 300 American and European items in stock, ranging from the 18th century through 1950, says store partner Ellie Fowler. Her prices run from $300 to $10,000. Animal lovers can find a potpourri of specialties at Animal Art Antiques, located on Arabella Street outside the Quarter. Owner Charles Murphy cites items ranging from oyster plates costing $175 each to an 1853 British oil painting of English Setters...
With so many antiques shops to choose from, how do you make the most of your buying experience in the Big Easy? Have your budget in mind ahead of time so that you are looking for merchandise you know is definitely in your price range, recommends Mirror Mirror's Fowler. If you have a digital camera or a Polaroid, she adds, take pictures of antiques you are considering buying as you wander from store to store so that you can visually compare different items at the end of the day. Examine pieces carefully by opening drawers and cabinets. Look...
...accept a merchant's first asking price for more expensive items, Fowler suggests. Feel free to bargain, but be reasonable. You may be able to negotiate a $4,000 price down to $3,000, but don't expect to wind up paying $1,000. "Save the hard-core bargaining for the really pricey pieces," Riddle says. "If you see something that costs $50 and it really speaks to your heart, then just get it." New Orleans antiques dealers all know one another and will work together to ship items bought in their stores, Moss says, so you can consolidate shipping...