The "library table" is an early 20th C. Sofa Table, designed for a specific orientation. When a large sofa was placed in the middle of the room with the back visible one of these was put behind it.

@OdeInWessex

Жыл бұрын

Oooh you beat me to it!🥰

@evonnagale3045

Жыл бұрын

Well, now I know what to look for to go with the couch I just picked up

@jodierogers7111

Жыл бұрын

Yup-mid century, it was all the rage to cut them down and make them into coffee tables…. The fate of the gorgeous inlaid wood number that came from my grandmothers house. Still love it so. Few of the good ones survived as sofa tables when fashions changed.

@SirenaSpades

Жыл бұрын

Also known as a console table

@bethwaltz2607

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! Believe that ornate bulb places it in the Jacobean-influenced style popular in the 1920s.

Your black vase is barro negro from Oaxaca, Mexico.💜 Which made me sigh, seeing a piece of traditional mexican culture preserved with such love.

@NicoleRudolph

Жыл бұрын

That's so awesome! I've wondered about that piece but hadn't seen anything else quite like it (and googling got me nowhere). Thank you!!

I didn't realise how different it must be to go antiques shopping in the US compared to here in Sweden. What you might consider a lucky find could be just an average antique store staple to me. For example, my kitchen chairs are from the late 1800's and I found them collecting dust in a flea market.

@nonniperkl6273

Жыл бұрын

Heh heh as a Finn I couldn’t have any more different experience in this. My very poor foremen used everything until it was beyond repair and then turned it into fire wood. Legit one of the oldest building in my town is 150 years old, school made to honour the invading tzar and u know things are going well when getting invaded by Russia actually means liberation.

@LaviniaDeMortalium

Жыл бұрын

American's have a bad habit of throwing away their parents possession's as 'junk,' or are otherwise very limited on space (see California) and frequently purge. Most of the 'great find' antiques I've come across in my search were forgotten in someone's spacious basement back 'East,' as in the eastern half o the US where space is so readily available, things can be forgotten.

@bow-tiedengineer4453

Жыл бұрын

the saying I've always heard for this is "in America, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long distance." You have so much more history is so much less space, so it's no wonder you have way more cool old stuff.

@chrish2277

Жыл бұрын

Lol, in Australia, we get excited about things from the 1920's....

@caerrie

Жыл бұрын

I'm not big into antiques, so I may be way off base here, but I feel like this really depends on where you are in Europe though. Around the areas where my family lives, larger antiques (that are for sale) are also a rare-ish find - because many families were either bombed and lost their homes or were refugees from modern-day Poland, and thus only had a small handful of heirlooms left, usually stuff that was small enough to carry.

Two things: Your hair is glorious! I am heading off to Pinterest to look up red/cranberry hair looks. AND I would 100% watch the heck out of a "Nicoles Antique Roadshow." Please make more content about your treasures!

@roblove7328

Жыл бұрын

Roche, you look so beautiful, sweetheart 😘👌💘🌹 ~ Greetings from New York 😚🙏💝💐

@andybryant1772

Жыл бұрын

It is cool looking hair. I think my sister had a dress a similar colour.

The lamps are etched cranberry glass and are probably Bohemia in origin stunning pieces

Ahhh Nicole, you are a woman after my own heart. My living room is very much similar to yours, as my husband said to a guest we had last week “ minimalist we certainly are not” we are auction house addicts and there are certainly a few pieces that we have that I adore such as my Victorian sewing table which is difficult to describe and a wonderful display cabinet from 1890 that we picked up at auction 3 weeks ago for £30. No one wanted it because brown furniture isn’t wanted these days! Thank you for allowing us a peek into your precious items

I grew up around antiques, inherited what I had room for, and many,many were sold for a song. 😢 Seeing your things brings me back to my childhood, exploring so many great aunts’ fusty parlours and attics. Wonderful memories. You’ve brought them all back. Thank you. ❤️

@user-sg4ov7ng4h

8 ай бұрын

My grandma had a big oval table that could fit like 20 people, sold it for 100 euros, like bruh that sh*t costs like 600 now, but people don't want thzm.

The door definitely needs to lead to a secret room! I loved hearing about your antiques.

Ahh, so beautiful! As someone who's Australian, lives in a city that was only founded 110 years ago (although wasn't a popular place to live until the 30s) and whose grandparents were either a) poor as dirt, b) immigrants to Australia or c) both, there's not really a lot of antiques rattling around here. You're lucky if you can get something from the 40s. So I'm very impressed by this collection, especially since so many of the pieces are family pieces!

As a knitter, crocheter, and novice spinner… I think I love the spinning wheel and skeiner the most! I can just picture the woman spinning the yarn all spring and summer after the sheep were shorn and then winding it onto the skeiner to make hanks of yarn, ready for winter knitting by the whole family. I think that’s something many don’t think about… the whole family knitted back then. And thinking about all the natural dyes she would have used. Man. She had quite the set up! As a modern woman I’m envious!

I live in the Sticks of a rural, East Texas county. In June we moved 3 miles deeper into the woods to the property my dad (of blessed memory) bought in 1981. We're guessing the house to be 90-100 years old, built in a nearby town around the lumber mill, built by the timber company for workers. When it was moved here, 15 miles away? 🤷‍♀️ We think it was a home for at least a little while but was eventually used as a hunting camp. I've found various vintage pieces here from lamps to shelves to wall pictures, etc. Our chickens have scratched up antique jars and vases from under the house. (Good job, Ladies!) One is an Art Deco canning jar whose design was patented in 1930. My husband is going to build a shelf around top of kitchen wall to hold my pretties ...that will be used. Such as his Grandmother's square, 5 qt, crank butter churn that I still use to make butter and buttermilk from our cow. I love antiques but they must be functional for me. I can't wait to move my wood, cook stove here! Nicole, your collection is awesome! ...but I especially love the fact you have pieces from your own family. That is super special and says so much about you. Thank you for sharing these things with us. 🤗

Silver cleaning, spray with hairspray after polishing, have not had silver or brass to clean for years. National Trust tip.

OMG THAT TEA SET! I'm in love! I wish I had the space, money, wherewithal to collect these kinds of pieces -- so beautiful. The only piece I have is my great-grandmother's spinning wheel, which I think dates from the late Victorian or early Edwardian period. :) Thank you for the tour!

When I was ready and able to buy a brand new bedroom set (back when everything was still “matchy matchy”) I was in an interior design store one day. One of the props being used was also for sale - a reproduction of a Victorian bedroom. I had no idea what year or what era it was from, but I was drawn to it. So I bought it and had a beautiful bedspread and chair cover made. I also had valances and sheers made. As I said, I had no idea what era it was from until a friend came into the room on a house tour and exclaimed, “I never pegged you for a Victorian gal!” The headboard is humongous - very tall with gorgeous inland wood details. There is also a tall linen chest, a chest of drawers with tri-fold mirrors and two faux marble top side tables with very tall lamps to fit the size of the headboard. It’s my favorite room in the entire house! I never knew I was drawn to Victorian furniture, either!

Bailey has good taste in furniture 💚

That was fascinating! Also - your hair looks great

That etagere is beautiful.

This was the most lovely thing to watch on a cold & snowy Michigan morning. Thank you for sharing your trove of wonderfulness.

Oooh I’ve been dying to find out about your antiques & decor. I’ve been collecting antiques since my youth, so this is right up my alley. Thanks for finally sharing this!!! Loving the hair BTW

I’m in love with the door to nowhere!! Also this is so my style! I’m redecorating my office in a similar way. I thrift a lot of my antiques.

New subscriber-coming from Abby’s site….loving your esthetic, I wish I had been able to adopt it during my life! I’m now 63 years old and retired due to disability with a fixed income, so it is too late to start now. I do have many antiques that my parents and I collected, but they aren’t really my style. I’m sorry I missed the goth and emo eras, but they would not been a hit in the 70’s growing up. Thank you for letting me indulge in my fantasy a few minutes at a time in your videos. 💕

@the.cityofgod

Жыл бұрын

you're 63, there's still time

LOVE the red in your hair --- it really looks good with your coloring and hairstyle! Also am drooling big time over those earrings! 😛 All the decor surrounding you is fabulous.

“Inherited” I love antiques! Settees are lovely! Great purchase!

I loved this little tour of your antiques! I think what we collect says quite a bit about us as people and I love it when other KZreadrs (Costubers especially) let viewers in like this! Thank you for sharing!!

You were so blessed to be in the state of Virginia and go to that estate sale and get that Victorian chair for only $50 dollars 💵 wow on utube you and one other lady named Tanya are the only people I have seen that went to a barn sale or yard sale auction for vintage that was blessed enough to get antique furniture and queen Ann Victorian furniture for only $50 bucks each piece wow this just blows my mind how you guys get such a steal on these antique furniture ❤🇺🇸👍🙏💵😇🎈☮️🗽✝️✡️👼⏰

50 dollars for that gorgeous settee!?!?!? 🤯🤯🤯

You should see Christine McConnell's video on gramophone refinishing. That might be good research to prep for your own project!

You are so fortunate to have so many lovely family things! Thanks for the tour!

if, when you and the others on the cruise in October, have any free time in Southampton, I can recommend going to the Mercentile Flea in Southampton for more lovely vintage and antique pieces to add to your wonderful collection

This is a great collection and you decorate with it so nicely. I think we need a full home decor tour!

There is a strong love for antiques in my family and my granparents have so many objects/pieces of furniture that have been in the family for more than a century for some; it has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. For now I still live with my parents and my room is small but I still managed to create a tiny antiques/historical nook and carefully stored the rest of my treasures while I wait to have my own house. I also inherited from all the remaining antique/vintage pieces of clothing from my maternal grandmother's side of the family, and I cherish these piece. My favourite is my great-great-grandmother's midwife apron from the early 1900.

We had the same settee, except that it was a loveseat. The settee in your videos caught my eye when I first started watching your videos, and made me go "same furniture!!"

What a treat! The settee is fantastic. I love the red glass lamps, and the black vase on the etagere. I have similar collections, with items from my grandmothers (one graduated from teaching college in Wisconsin in 1912, and had books with fancy covers and a pearl-handled dip pen she won in a poetry contest; the other lived in NYC and worked at a photography studio during WWI (age 17)...I have all of her family's photos, as well as a few pieces of her original artwork. My MIL has also gifted me items from her family. Anything from the 1880s through 1930 works in a tableau. I love rearranging things until they look 'right'. Thank you for the tour of your fascinating goodies!

I have always loved your "set", so it is good to get a closer look at everything. A couple of things 1.) I love how this room, this video, and your relationship with your antiques shows that a.) Antiques should be used and lived with and b.) Mixing eras is fine.....it just looks like a collection curated over time, and the pieces just sort of blend. 2.) While I have seen this in all of your KZread videos, so clearly it has become a sort of " set" for youtube, I did not see any sewing specific furniture which leads me to believe you have a separate space for that, but I have, in videos seen you hand sewing in this space.....I mention this to ask a question. I am looking at the idea of needing to reconfigure and redesign my fashion design studio in April when I move, likely having to downsize it and merge it into my bedroom, which has been evolving in a greens/browns Victorian witch direction and I was curious if you find the green on the walls problematic, both for KZread and for sewing in terms of viewing colors of pieces you are working on correctly?

@donkelly4718

Жыл бұрын

Edit: In the clip at the end showing the "forgotten items" I did notice pieces like your sewing table and cutting table were in a room with white or off white walls, so, yes, clearly a separate space, but my question still remains, lol

I'm a painter artist (I have to write that because of the different genres of artists) but I make my own historical clothing like you and have been making them since early 2000s like you. And like you I have a Victorian art studio/sewing room 😊 I love your channel. It's my favourite.

So many beautiful things! My most prized possession is a family heirloom. It´s a traditional austrian peasants table from 1814 (the date and names of the original owners are carved into it). What I love most about these type of tables are the big bread drawer (for the weekly loaf of bread) and the hidden compartment for valuables which can be accessed by shifting the whole table top

What a wonderful collection. Love the sofa and the yarn/fabric creation pieces. I've just got my 1st antique piece. A singer 12k hand cranked sewing machine from 1888. She will be carefully used as getting the needles for her are a nightmare in the uk.

I love this channel! Your knowledge of history and how to make such exquisite items, ( such as lampshades, shoes, clothing, etc..), just boggles the mind! Thanks for this video 💗

wow! I could listen to you talking about those pretty things forever. This was very interesting and I love every single piece!

A banjolele! Such an item almost broke up Jeeves and Wooster!

Nicole, you are drop dead gorgeous with your hair that colour, it really suits you. Also, those earrings are fabulous.

Thank you! I love looking at antiques and vintage items. You have a beautiful collection. I've been admiring your copy of Goldsmith's book of poems for awhile now. I inherited my grandparent's Stereoscope a few years back. It looks to be the same as the one you have. Now I'm collecting Canadian photograph cards to view with it.

Oh my goodness, that lampshade was gorgeous. Excellent job!

I know how to spin and have 2 spinning wheels myself, so I was really hoping to hear about the spinning wheel. Do tell us in future as much as you know if it! My spinning wheels are both from the mid 1900's so not heirlooms, but we have lots of family pioneer stories that have to do with spinning. One is that my 5th great grandfather died with 9 kids at home. His wife made ends meet by spinning men's suits. She was awesome. Another great grandma was an aristocrat but she and her sister's, by the time they were 16, grew and processed all the flax to make a hope chest full of linens for their married life. She used it for tablecloths, linens, etc. They had to flee a mob for religious persecution and much to the shock of everyone she carried the mattress a mile on her back 7 months pregnant! She said she grew the flax and plucked the geese, and she refused to have her lying in without it. When she died years later she was burried in the linens she made as a teenager.

I love story times! No matter how prosaic the object, the back story can be so warm and/or fascinating. My favorite backdrop piece has always been the settee. Amazing how low the price ended up being at that auction. Its acquisition was a magical combination of the right place, the right time, the right price and (wish we had video) the slightly wrong vehicle. 😉

Bailey has good taste in furniture. You have great antiques.

Both of my grandfathers were in Italy during the war too! 36th Infantry. They brought back so many things...along with an aversion to lamb.

The beautiful door is meant for a Narnia wardrobe! I feel it in my bones.

What an excellent video! The tables & the open display unit in dark wood are exquisite! Real museum pieces!

All that carving was done by hand and looks really good.

Sofa 200 plus years old and looks in decent condition... my 4 year old modern sofa looking like it's dying... is so telling. The old radio 🥰... I remember my gram having a long tv/radio rectangular furniture peice.. it had such a different sound, but electric came in on it 😒

I’ve envied your space for so long, I’d kill to have that room! Thank you for sharing♥️

@themurrrr

Жыл бұрын

SAME!

@marieangie5663

Жыл бұрын

@@themurrrr right!!?

You have enough stuff to make this a series. I'd watch!

OOoooOOO how lovely , I adore Antiques ... My Deeply buried Gothic Witchy side of my Nature imagines the "Library " table used as a Coffin table ?? PS Those dear rings are DIVINE!!!

"a Bailey from 2009" 😂 the curtains are my favourite type of green 💚 You have such a nice collection of old and pretty things, thanks for the tour! ^^

My mother-in-law was a partner in an antique store here in New England. My husband and I used to go weekly, sometimes several times a week to auctions either with her or by ourselves. We had a space in her shop as a part time business. We managed to do all that while both of use worked full time in the corporate world. It was a great learning experience. I still have many of the items still crammed into this house. But what I wanted to mention was the yarn or skein winder. In the quick look at it, it appears that the arms are on backwards or the small handle on the arm is on the wrong side. That handle was used to actually spin the arms. I knit and spin fiber and I have an antique yarn winder here too. I also have a beautiful antique spinning wheel from the mid 1700-early 1800. Personally, I love antiques. The have such great stories to tell us.

those big vases with the peacock feathers in them look familiar and I don't know where I've seen something like that before and it's bothering me and will continue to bother me until I finally fall asleep. the radio though!! my dad fixes up old radios (and all sorts of old things tbh) so old radios are just fascinating to me, although now I think of it there is actually an old radio down in the garage along with a telephone exchange. the origins of said telephone exchange are unknown and had been in there for at least fifty years without anyone other than my grandpa knowing lmao

Hey if you love the arts and crafts movement it might be worth going to Standen House while you're in the UK later this year

Thank you for sharing such personal things and stories. What interests us enough to collect and spend our money on says a lot about ourselves.

Entege is awesome and yes I would Sweat if I had to move thar too. I vote for a gramophone refurbishing video! Your hair looks lovely. I almost saved this video for dinner time but am glad I indulged.

@becauseimafan

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see gramophone video too!!

I love your "antique" hair color!

Great collection Nicole, thank you it was interesting. How nice for you to have vintage family heirlooms, extra special. Like the look, you wear it well. Sweet doggie👍🤗

Thank you for sharing your amazing decor! I really got hooked on your videos when I saw my cousin’s (caitlin McCarthy is my cousin on my father’s side) artwork sitting behind you 😆. I’m also a seamstress and love watching you recreate clothing in your own style! Keep these amazing videos coming.

I would love to see a gramophone video!! The design of your piece, the taking apart + cleaning out + reassembly, the restoration of the horn thingy; anything goes! Sounds like a lovely time ☺️🧖💆♥️

Incredible. Just... stunning.

Wonderful video. I have two hidden rooms in my home. At first I was afraid they would be too obvious. But nobody noticed. The key is to not use gorgeous, carved wooden doors. If you do have a match made, they will deserve pride of place in any room lucky enough to have them. I do like the idea of using them as wall decoration. At present I am doing a room-by-room, piece-by-piece Victorian remodel of my home. I'm starting with paint. I just bought some damask (damask like?) stencils. I plan on doing all the woodwork myself, Once I get a CNC router I'll be set to recreate some of the amazing carved pieces of this much beloved period.

I could listen to you talk for hours about all your cool old stuff as I am very much the same. I wish you could have talked about the Frazier's Dairy milk jug as I was also born and raised in Frankfort , Indiana and know that name well. My maiden name was Sneathen.

Well I enjoy learning things from you! I find your creativity admirable! Thank you!

That is some serious decorating talent to make these super unique pieces to work together so well

I love all the little stories..

The antiques are beautiful as well as the history behind them. I wish I had family photos that old, I'm so glad someone cherishes their family history that spans back generations, as not everyone has that luxury. Great video!

@infamoussphere7228

Жыл бұрын

I think immigration is one of the things that really disrupts those collections, even when it's economic peacetime immigration and not fleeing a country. 3 out of 4 of my grandparents were immigrants, and one did have to escape Hungary pretty fast postwar. They couldn't take furniture or many items with them, so we're lucky if we have a few photos. And now I'm going to move to Finland, and I'm facing having to ship things. It's expensive, even though I'm only shipping clothes and a little bit of homewares! I can see why a lot of people just sold everything, especially in the past.

I like to play a game of spotting different background objects in KZread videos, so it’s really cool to get a close up view of all your antiques! I would love to collect more antiques when I have my own place, but for now I just don’t have the room for it. I do have a few pieces that are probably more on the vintage side (including a chest from my g grandma (maybe early to mid 20th c?) and a tea set from Japan c1950s?) I’m the self-proclaimed “family historian” so I have quite a few items earmarked for me in the future!

I just saw the white shoes on a pedestal, and the idea of Ruby Slippers came to me. Have you ever thought of making a pair of Ruby Slippers? I would love to see you make some.

Yes to all!!!! 😍😍

Oh your room is a dream. I am currently a student living in a boarding house devoid of decor funds (because they are expensive), so I couldn't buy much, but I am slowly collecting antiques. Your room is absolutely gorgeous.

What a beautiful room, Nicole!😍 So many wonderful antiques! I LOVE it! ❤ (I also LOVE your earrings! Very pretty & they play nicely against the red in your hair!😊)

I love your settee! I work at a ReStore and we get a lot of gorgeous settees and chaise lounges but for some reason they take forever to sell and dont sell for a lot. I wish I had room for them all!

@jayneterry8701

Жыл бұрын

I bet they weigh a lot too! My Grandmother had a wine coloured couch with velvet fabric and wood carved lion arm fronts. I loved it! A 6' person could lie on it and their feet wouldn't reach the other end. It was dark and a bit spooky . I would have loved that piece but it way too heavy to lift.

@ah5721

Жыл бұрын

The only antique settes I've sat on are dreadfully uncomfortable and very springy

i LOVE collecting things, and i love other people telling me about their own collections. it's especially cool that some of the items are family heirlooms

Your étagère is the stuff of dreams! So pretty and delicate 😍 Thank you for this lovely tour, you have some gorgeous pieces ❤️

Watching this gives me such nostalgia! When visiting Michigan as a teen, we would stay with my grandma's best friend, and her house was filled with Victorian antiques. They were all pieces that had been used in her family for more than a century. I stayed in a room with a 3/4 sized bed, and I got to read old LIFE magazines (I specifically remember one from 1936 being very critical of Germany). She even had an old Sears-Robuck catalog from the 1880s, I think!

Fellow Merry Blackbird Society friend!! ♥And such a lovely box to keep them in!

Hi Nicole. Regarding your silver tea set, I have a tip. Maybe you already know this. How to clean silver without having to polish it. Take preferably a large glass bowl or tray (I think the bathtub would work also, but I haven't tried that) line it with aluminium foil. Then strew some salt on the aluminium foil. Regular salt. Boil some water, put the silver items in the bowl / tray and poor the hot water on them. This causes a chemical reaction (smells like sulfer) that immediately makes all the black tarnish on the silver disappear and makes the silver shine. Since it is a fairly big item you will most likely have to reline the tray with aluminium foil and ad new salt and hot water to it because it only works on the part of the silver that is under water. I use this method for silver jewelry and cutlery. Good luck.

I'm so glad you made this video because I'm so enamored with your beautiful decor and it's great to hear the stories behind individual pieces.

Amazing condition of the settee! We paid several hundred for our Ethan Allen Victorian sofa that we then had to pay several hundred to reupholster, repair and restful. It actually looked like it had been left outside in the weather. I’d happily trade it for a smaller settee beach use it’s heavy and doesn’t really fit well in the parlor, but has no other room it will fit into or look right in. Your items are beautiful

Such a beautiful display! Your earrings are gorgeous too!!

I love Bailey; please more Bailey content.

"Bailey from 2009" has my entire heart. Please give a pat from us who admire her. I love and covet the aesthetic you have created for your space and I hope you get much use and joy from it

Love this. More videos like this! Make it a series! I want the next one to be up-close and stories of all the stuff you “forgot” at the end!

Loved the Italian book your grandfather purchased. I have an edition of Wordsworth poems that originally belonged to my great, great grandmother. Her name is inside, as is my grandmother's name. It slips a generation, but I did a calligraphy signature on my name inside. Love it.

I fully agree with your love of old books. I try to only buy old books that at least reflect my interests, even if they are just far enough outside my interests I'll likely never use them, because I personally feel that someone's collection of books ought to say something about them. My collection of old books expanded quite a lot last year, because my college was selling off some of the books from the library. My favorite of these is probable "the new metal worker pattern book", a book from 1911 on how to make all sorts of things with sheet metal. It's a nice big paving slab sized book, with gold lettering and a subtle embossed geometric pattern on it's cover, and it's full of technical illustrations of how to make fancy architectural elements from flat sheet metal. Half the illustrations are drawings of interesting architectural elements, and half of them are complex geometric constructions showing how to cut the sheet metal pieces that you would then bend and combine together to make these cool pieces. It definitely stands out on my shelf, as it's a bit taller and wider than my largest textbooks, although not quite as thick.

Thanks

I’ve just bought a bouillotte table which has a marble top and very slim legs. It’s French and gorgeous but moving it is nerve wracking in case the legs snap.

I've been told that a yarn winder from that era is called a weasel. It made a "pop" sound when you had wound a certain amount of yarn and is the origin of the song Pop Goes the Weasel.

I love the wall paint colour. And your hair accent.

I really enjoyed seeing your treasures! Thank you

I could hardly pay attention to what you were saying because I was so focused on your hair. It's gorgeous!

FABULOUS!!!

Love your taste and peices! Thank you for sharing.

My favorite is the eteger withe the display of hats and your incredible shoes you've made! I like the work you put into the two lamps, very authentic looking! Tfs

You have such beautiful pieces! As a fellow lover of antique and vintage décor, I really love your decorating style.