The trend today is to marry traditional and modern pieces to create your
own personal sense of style. Fabulous and functional. Sophisticated and always comfortable. Update antiques to reflect your lifestyle today. Integrating antiques into your design plan is a great example of recycling and re-purposing pieces for the way you live.
There is an art to balancing modern clean lines with traditional timeless
beauty. Find common elements such as burled wood in contemporary and traditional pieces. Modified cabriole legs on a modern console table look smashing with an antique chest with cabriole legs you may already have in your classic furniture repertoire. Diamond tufting on a camelback sofa of yesteryear may not be comfortable today. However, reupholstering an inherited overstuffed chair with contrasting button tufting is.
We have done away with our Mother's "don't touch that - don't sit on that" to "how can I use antiques for function as well as beauty?" People tend to relegate antiques to a guest bedroom or a study. Bring them out into the light where you can use and enjoy them every day.
Set your dining room table with your Grand-mother's china, even if there is no dinner party planned at the moment. Or take a mix of dinner and dessert plates and arrange them in an arch or circle above a buffet table.
Things to keep in mind:
early popularity had to do with the convenience of those wearing swords who 
could sit on such a chair comfortably.
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The distinctive texture and warm glow of hand hammered copper sinks appeals to the senses and needs only simple maintenance. What's even better is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently confirmed that copper has antimicrobial properties, making it capable of killing bacteria and viruses. The studies show that this beautiful metal kills 99% of bacteria within two hours of contact and even inhibits the life of the H1N1 virus. Beauty and practicality - that's what we love about copper sinks. 
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