A furniture consignment shop can stock everything from a 100-year-old highboy to a 10-year young sofa. Just as in clothing, the trend these days is toward recycling, finding delightful ways to make ...

Buying furniture straight from the showroom floor is easy: You pay the listed price and it arrives at your house looking flawless and new. Consignment shopping, meanwhile, can feel like a risk or an ...

Leaf through any number of shelter magazines and it is almost impossible to find a home furnished entirely with new pieces. Yet in the early days of postwar America, few people of means ever ...