Odd. This Mirror and Table Didn't Sell

Beezer

Beezer

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On Facebook Marketplace in my area. It was my late mother's set from her front hallway. I thought it would fly in an hour for 50 bucks, but no takers. So my daughter reduced the price even more...not a sniff!

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I’ve got just the spot for it. 😉🤭😂
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I like them and would take them on as a project for a first apartment if they were free but for fifty bucks I would take a pass.
 
IF that was the photo used to sell it, take another one in better light and/or clean the items.
They look dull, dingy, and dirty.

The suggestion to paint them is also a good one.

And cut your price WAY down!
 
Alas, speaking from experience, that's the way it is nowadays. The people that went for this style are dying off and young people, for the most part, aren't interested in old furniture. They want what I call "toothpick" furnishings (a.k.a Ikea). Would make a nice plant table, though.

I had three pieces of furniture out at my recent garage sale. No one even looked at them, except the pedestal table, and she wouldn't even give me $5 for it. Would only take it if it was free.

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If you watch Antiques Roadshow, you’ll know that “brown furniture“ has taken a nosedive in the past twenty years. It has to be exceptional or very old and rare. Otherwise, nobody wants it. It’s landfill fodder. One exception is mid-century modern. Some of that goes for crazy prices. There was some teak danish modern at a local thrift store recently. They wanted several hundred dollars for each piece. It was gone in a couple days.
 
People tend to want furniture similar to the style they grew up with. My parents embraced mid-century modern, as did all their children, and now their grandchildren. My kids (and I) wouldn't be interested in the wicker or pedestal table. Not even if they were free. Nothing to do with quality. Tastes have changed.

As for IKEA furniture - @debodun is quite right. People buy what will serve their needs for the next 10 or 15 years.
 
My living room set, and bedroom is Swedish Modern. My parents' stuff. Such fine wood and deep drawers! My mother so proud of it, bought 72 years ago new for our new apartment, one which they owned. A new start from Bronx tenement.
 
Young people are more mobile than people were years ago. No roots to put down, they move frequently and don't want heavy furnishings. Just something thy can throw in the back of a friend's pickup and away they go.

I remember my maternal grandmother's house and all the shelves with knickknacks and china cupboards with dishes. You don't see that in a modern home or apartment. I had two tables of figurines and knickknacks at the garage sale, only sold one set of Asian style figurines.

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@EmptyCup, we were posting at the same time!

A couple of mid-Century modern chairs (from my mom's house) needed reupholstering. The furniture repair guy asked DH what he knew about the chairs. (Ummm... They were my mother-in-law's???)

Turns out they were made by someone whose designs became rather famous (Adrian Pearsall). Both chairs and the coffee table are now worth thousands EACH. DH had to promise the furniture maker that he'd give him first offer if I ever wanted to sell them.

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debodun said:
Young people are more mobile than people were years ago. No roots to put down, they move frequently and don't want heavy furnishings. Just something thy can throw in the back of a friend's pickup and away they go.
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That's because young people have been priced out of a buyer's market. Owning homes isn't part of a young person's burden anymore. Like furniture, for old people.
 
Pepper said:
That's because young people have been priced out of a buyer's market. Owning homes isn't part of a young person's burden anymore. Like furniture, for old people.
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Fortunately that is not true everywhere... many places are still affordable. Mortgages in my neck of the woods are less expensive than rent payments.
 
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