Restaurant Furniture In Your Home
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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?
