AntiqueWeekend: The Farmhouse Chandelier

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Farmhouse Chandelier

While still in California, on one our regular Saturday garage sale hunts, we came upon a wonderful multi-family sale. As David looked at the tables, I spotted a wonderful chandelier. Heavy iron painted a rustic cream, with animal silhouettes and “meat hooks”. It looked like it could have hung in a butcher shop and been repurposed to add lights. It was not old or repurposed, but it caught my eye and I stood in line (at a garage sale!) to buy it.

A few months later David had lunch at a swanky “see and be seen" restaurant, The Ivy in Beverly Hills. Hanging above a table occupied by actor James Coburn was the very same chandelier! At the time we were living in a California ranch house and I was collecting Danish modern furniture and globes. David asked what I intended to do with a farm-themed chandelier. This was about the time that Rachel Ashwell was beginning her shabby chic empire, hanging chandeliers as light fixtures in bedrooms and living rooms. I decorated our guest room around this chandelier.

But I also told David that someday we would have a little farmhouse of our own and we would hang this chandelier in the dining room. We have our farmhouse, and the chandelier is hanging in the dining room. Buy things you love and you will always find a place for them. As always, happy hunting!

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In 2000, with his temporary job in California coming to an end, David asked me where I wanted to live next.
I said Fayetteville (Texas), a charming town of 266 people in central Texas. And so we came. We moved into a loft above a commercial building on the square in Fayetteville. It was there that AntiqueWeekend.com was born. My husband had visited Fayetteville many times over the years, visiting his parents and grandparents. He told me wonderful tales of the antique shows held twice a year. It was hard to imagine that the fields of grazing cattle could be filled with tents and booths full of treasures. (They do move the cattle!) We love garage sales, prowling through antique stores, flea markets and thrift stores. In California we attended some legendary flea markets including the Rose Bowl and Long Beach. We spent our Saturday mornings driving through the greater Claremont area finding some wonderful treasures at garage sales.
With time on our hands and treasure hunting in our souls, we decided to utilize David’s computer skills and develop a website that would serve as a resource with information about the semi-annual Warrenton and Round Top Antique Weekend and a directory for the ever-increasing number of show sites and vendors. It was a different world 13 years ago. Few show sites and even fewer vendors had websites. And social media was unheard of. With smart phones and tablets the world has changed and we can see it in the visits to our website. And we have changed, too. The website now has a clean new look. We are on facebook and twitter, have thousands of photos on twitter and instagram, send a periodic newsletter and have recently launched an AntiqueWeekend blog.
We have changed, too.
We bought our own old farmhouse, planned weddings and have wonderful granddaughters who love to visit Mimi and PopPop at the farm.
We bake cookies and do crafts and many of the pictures you see on the blog are projects we have done together.
When you are making your plans to visit Antique Weekend we want you to have all the info you need and great photos of what you can expect to see. Between shows we want to inspire you. We’ll share ideas, memories and information about events that happen here “the rest of the time” so you can plan to come back more than just twice a year.