While they have a place in our lives today ..Not the least of which is keeping China busy and its prudent, I think to keep China happy !.. Having economical things for us to buy is good within reason, but we have lost some of that...It's so seductive to have a new look every year, we spend all our time remodeling our homes because its cheap to do so with all this over merchandized stuff !! If you buy the sofa you need the vase ..The throw and the candles ..This goes with that and that and that and then again next year ..because it doesn't last !! ..It's not made to , the fabrics are poor quality, the construction basic and frail ..because they want you to come around next year and get the "new look" the "fresh look" and you believe them because you stuff is looking" tired"and "old" In the mean time all our quality vintage pieces end up in land fill ..Not old enough to be classed as antiques ..and at the rate we are disposing of them they were not going to make it anyway ...
If you had a choice between paying ..say two thousand dollars to restore and recover your grandmother's chesterfield or dropping into your local design furniture store and having a brand new one delivered this week ..Would you? ..Could you wait for grandma's to be done, would you pay that much for what you believe to be old furniture ? ..You should !!!..Because grandma's chesterfield was made to last ..and last and a quality piece will wear better than a new cheap imported one ..and the money you save and the time it frees up will give you the opportunity to go and learn how to restore some of the pieces yourself ..You will love them so much more if you have some input into them ...
Along with the furniture we are also losing the craft ..The artisan upholsterer with the book binder and the french polisher are being lost to our romance of all things brassy and cheap...
While on the subject of imports ..Buying online direct from the source has got to be the ....(I'll think of a word but stupid is the only one that comes to mind) ...Stupidest thing to do...To cut out the local merchant. ...The one that sends his or her kids to the same school as yours and buy direct !!!and I see this promoted in the media! ..What are we thinking ...
Some poor deluded refugee walks weeks over cold mountains and hot sands ...pukes his way across the straights in a leaking fishing boat , suffers the next two years in a refugee camp and thinks if he suffers this, works hard and starts a little import business he can send his kids to school and everyone will have a wonderful future ,only to find that the kids will have to repatriate back to where they came from and compete with half the local australian kids that have gone over there to find jobs because all the local jobs have gone broke because everyone is buying direct !!..and to top it all off because the local businesses have closed the area has deprecated and now your house is worth only half of what you paid for it because you wanted to save a few dollars on a cheap import...smart!!!
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