Villa Rica

ottoman

amazing settee!

I have a few new addictions to confess:  ottomans, settees, craigslist, and pinterest.  I search craigslist for free stuff, ottomans, and settees.  I recently purchased an ottoman and settee from craigslist.  The ottoman was from a store in Villa Rica.  So my longsuffering husband drove me an hour away last Saturday to the small town of Villa Rica where we spent a lovely morning perusing the antique shops there.  I picked up my great deal ottoman and Mike purchased a set of hardback Winnie the Pooh books that were published the year he was born (my husband is very sentimental and also suffers a few addictions of his own, one of which is that he can never resist buying a book)  I love my ottoman and am trying to decide what fabric to reupholster it in.  Yesterday, I purchased my first antique settee from craigslist.  While I like it alot, it will need a lot of work.  I am a bit concerned because it needs its coils replaced.  Mike has assured me that he thinks he can handle that part) We will see.  I was also supposed to purchase another one that was finished and had beautiful lines.  Unfortunately, the person sold it yesterday afternoon to someone else before I had a chance to go get it.  I am soooooo disappointed, but realize that part of the fun is the hunt, so the hunt will continue (fun for me but not so great on the pocketbook!)  I think I will have to stop looking for ottomans, although I love the old giant round ones, so you never know!
While in Villa Rica we stopped at a store that left me speechless.  It was so crammed full of stuff that I deemed it the "hoarding store".  It had anything you could possibly imagine.  Unfortunately it appeared to be going out of business.  Because I found it so fascinating I had to take some pictures so here they are:

Inside (just one aisle ahhhhh!!!!!!) 

Outside, it said, "If we don't have it, you don't need it!"