GOING ONLINE...

Work caries on apace to get the online shop fully stocked. We still have quite a bit of gear waiting to be tastefully photographed, logged and put on the internet which always seems to take longer than anticipated. I’m also going to have to build more backdrops to keep the shots interesting and perky. Dan & Julia (www.mackandme.com), the photographers, however, are doing a grand job and are staying relatively calm with the constant “err….could you just re-photograph that with the thing, maybe across the other, and the bit a different way round” etc. etc. 

IT'S THIS WEEKEND!

Having slept on it, I realise that mention of a stuffed boar head wasn’t very ‘Christmassy’ although I could equally have said that our 5foot battleship now has fairy lights!

There are some beautiful and very different festive goodies to see, such as a large ‘ROBIN STARCH’ enamel sign or a beautiful chalk ware statue of someone…err…religious.

And this weekend there’s our very own recipe mulled wine, mince pies (thanks, Mum!), fairy cakes AND we may even put on some Christmas music…but that’s still up for ‘debate’ amongst ourselves….

CHRISTMAS!

Well – we’re set up for our Christmas Launch weekend. Lots of lovely displays for you to come and look at…although we still haven’t found a suitable party hat for our new taxidermy addition – a boars head!

HAS OLD FURNITURE BECOME LIKE SAND?!

We recently ‘pitched out’ at an Antiques Fair and took a lot of our large furniture to sell there. Having been unable to sell an early Victorian Flame mahogany linen cupboard in the shop I was dismayed that we only achieved £150 at the fair – 10 years ago it would have been £1,000 no problem!

And, at that price, large brown furniture has become like a large bag of sand. It has no real inherent value. It’s a case of how much it costs to move and store, not what it is actually worth. The sad thing is, even at £150 we made a small profit because the dealer we bought it from couldn’t afford to store it!

It’s been predicted for years, but the market for some types of furniture has now collapsed, in terms of traditional retail. This is sad because a large volume of Victorian furniture is now almost certainly destined for landfill.

Here at Nest we have decided it is now economic suicide to handle large brown furniture – see you at IKEA!