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Restaurant Furniture In Your Home |
By:
Bob Benson |
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There's a certain degree of nostalgia associated with booths
from old diners and tables from old soda shops. They just give
the aura of 'good old days.' If you dare to be different, you
can bring those good old days back and incorporate them into
your home décor by using restaurant furniture in your home.
Think how much fun it would be to have breakfast at a diner
every morning. It can happen if you put a booth in your
breakfast nook or dining area. Every lunch or dinner would be
like a blue plate special! Or, treat your kids and their friends
to banana splits and milk shakes at tables reminiscent of an old
soda shop.
So you're willing - but how do you go about finding such
treasures? You could pay someone to custom design them for you.
But where's the fun in that? You could use an on line search in
your quest by using key words like "used restaurant furniture"
or "restaurant furniture." Both key words will turn up a number
of results.
But the fun way to find used restaurant furniture starts with
scouring the classifieds of your local newspapers. Some actually
carry a category called "Restaurant Equipment" or "Used
Restaurant Equipment." If not, search general merchandise and
furniture for sale columns. Then, start looking for auctions.
Your area newspapers will probably have a particular day of the
week on which they run auction ads. Ask to find out when your
paper runs its most of its auction ads. Look for restaurants
going out of business, then read the list of items to be
auctioned in the ad. If you see a piece of furniture that sounds
promising, go check it out. If it is what you are looking for -
or can easily become the perfect piece of furniture with minor
modifications - start bidding. The auction process is fun and
don't be surprised if you get caught up in it. It's always good
to go into an auction with a budget of how much you will allow
yourself to spend. Check out the items closely first before
placing a big. Otherwise, you might pay too much for a furniture
item that looked good from a distance but upon closer inspection
you find cracks and other damage.
If you decide to go with a restaurant look with your furniture,
you have many decorating options available to you. You could
concentrate on a theme room with décor focusing on the theme,
like breakfast, Coca-Cola or other brand names. Decorations
ideas to accentuate your restaurant furniture might include old
magazine ads for the theme product, old menus from restaurants,
or labels from your favorite cans and boxes of food. You might
even create a wall border using labels from canned foods!
Whether you incorporate one piece of restaurant furniture into
your home or create your entire kitchen and dining area around a
room full of it, you and your guests will always enjoy the
novelty. After all, who doesn't like going out to eat?
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