Every inch of the Barter Post's 119- by 80-foot cinder-block warehouse is crammed with furniture and collectables. A one-room adjunct to the shop, arranged as a charming oak-and-calico prototype, holds some good buys like cast-iron ware for under $5, copper untensils under $30 and a handsome oak hutch for $260.However, it's not good karma to buy at the first shop (you can always come back), so onward.Ī few yards on the left is the Barter Post and Sower's Produce. Antiques will fill the house's other seven rooms, with kitchen antiques in th kitchen and bedroom antiques in the bedrooms (the better to inspire you, my dear). Proprietors Jim Kirby and Tony Suarez have just finished renovating the house so that front shop can be devoted to handmade Christmas ornaments and gifts. This is the Christmas Gallery and Antiques Shop, where every day is Christmas and weekends are flea markets. The word ANTIQUES is painted in sky-high letters on the roof of a two-storey gold house on your right after the first traffic light.
Almost as soon as I-66 ends and your front wheels touch 29/211, you'll see the first sign. About an hour from the city, it offers pastoral scenery, local color and shop after shop of pack-rat nirvana. One especially rewarding jaunt is a 15-mile stretch of Route 29/211 between I-66 and Warrenton.
Luckily for us in the latter category, the regions just beyond the Beltway abound with country roads studded with antique shops that are untrammelled by in-town pretensions and prices. Others can't tell a Hepplewhite from a Chippendale but happily spend hours combing used-furniture stores and junk shops for a good find - a golden oak dresser (manufactured at the turn of the century, golden oak pieces are not considered bona fide antiques, but why quibble?) or even a blue Ball jar. and patronize purveyors of period pieces. In this stratified world, there are two kinds of antique shoppers.
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