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Photo of patina on antiques

 

When shopping for antiques, you want to look at the patina of the furniture. Just like an old tshirt, wood softens as it ages. Wooden furniture gets better with time and use. Patina is the result of cleaning, dusting, waxing, polishing, sunlight and dings and scratches which happen during the normal course of life.  Wood softens over time and sharp edges round out. After one hundred years. all exterior edges should be soft to touch. Old pieces that have been well cared for seem to glow and darken in color.

 

Antique Patina photograph

 

Patina is the number one attribute used to authenticate an antique. Patina cannot be faked, reproduced or replicated. Patina is the evidence of an antique’s history. Stripping a piece of furniture destroys its patina and the only way to restore patina is the passing of time. That is the reason why refinishing antiques is not a good idea. When the patina is lost, the value of the piece can one tenth of what the value had been if it had its original patina.

Do any of you collect antiques? What is the number one thing you look for in an antique?

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About Leslie Hendrix Wood

Leslie Hendrix Wood is the founding editor of the luxury lifestyle and design blog, Hadley Court and an has her own interior design firm, Leslie Hendrix Wood Interiors in Midland, Texas.

Leslie received her undergraduate degree in business. She worked briefly in banking and returned to school to earn her MBA.

Upon graduation, she moved to Washington D.C. to work on a Presidential campaign and received a Presidential appointment to a position in International Trade.

At the end of the administration, Leslie returned to her hometown and joined the family oil and gas business, although her first passion has always been, after raising her children with her husband, business and interior design.

When she saw her children were closer to leaving home, she decided to start the blog, Hadley Court. in 2012, which won the Design Bloggers Conference Hall of Fame award for Best New Design Blog in 2013 - a prestigious honor granted by her peers.

In 2014, she is, in addition to blogging, beginning to build the family friendly luxury lifestyle brand: HADLEY COURT, based on her values of Gracious Living, Timeless Design and Family Traditions.

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