Those are nightstands aren't they? They seem quite out of scale next to the sofa. Nice, but I'd move them to the bedroom.

It Might Be My Favorite Second Hand Buy!

Yesterday I walk past a furniture store near where I live. It sells all sorts of furniture that has been made from locals in Villages all throughout Asia. There was an antique dresser in the window and I absolutely love it. It is suppose to be 150 years old and cost $2900 Australian to buy. I know it is pricey but I really, really like it. I'm young and am only starting to buy furniture. I rather have only a few things, but ones that I really like than have a lot of things that I only brought because they were cheap.

What should I do? Should I buy the dresser? Do people change their tastes in furniture? Am I wasting my money?

Please give me your opinion.

Those end tables are lovely, Grace -- great find! My personal favorite is a rare early 20th century mechanical bank I found in the '90s at the massive Portobello Road flea market in London. It was in perfect shape, and I got it for $50. If you can find them, they normally go for more than $800, so it was not only a collector's item, but the best deal I ever got!

Essentially all my furniture I bought from thrift stores are my favorite secondhand find. I have a great, large mid-century modern entertainment center (that was $100), a small MCM cabinet ($18), a great 60s-ish bar/cabinet piece ($30), a lovely blue velvet wingback chair in good condition ($30), and the most comfortable yellow velvet couch ever ($50). I also have a lot of artwork that I love and have displayed around my apartment. I'm a thrift store junkie!

So I have a mixture of Mid Century modern and primitive wood pieces in the house. My 2 greatest finds have been a pie safe and this awesome 2shelf teak end table which I now use as a bedside table.

My four Herman Miller Eames fiberglass side shell chairs in Greige. Got them on eBay for less thank 400 and I LOVE THEM! They're so comfortable and are perfect with my Herman Miller Eams kitchen table. I love to just look at them.

Courtachino , I found a yellow velvet couch JUST like yours not too long ago. Mines almost exactly the same except its a camel back with a carved wood detail on the back.The owner was evicted and she just gave it to me. BEST COUCH EVER.

Probably the MCM china cabinet and matching credenza. Found them the same week on craigslist only 6 miles apart. They were a bargain.

A $65 Hans Wegner Papa Bear chair and a $300 roll top desk by Edward Wormley, both I found on craigslist.

@wells2: if you really like that dresser, do two things. First, go in a few times and play around with it and look at it carefully. Ask lots of questions, make it plain that you're interested but that you aren't sure about the price. Also, do some research and make sure that it's a real antique, because sadly that's not always the case.

My best secondhand find was a free wooden plantation chair that was left out for the trash man on "large articles" day. It's teak, and gorgeous.

@smdarbyshire -- OMG! YES! The best $50 I've spent! The couch is SO comfortable and long enough for me to stretch out and nap :)

I would love to pick up so many second hand furnitures and ship them back to my home in Singapore, but will cost me a bomb!

My best second hand purchases are two stools, plates, a cheese plate and cups all with retro prints from a vintage shop in Subiaco, Perth

So many for me but this vintage metal cabinet I got on eBay for a steal stands out. I posted in this post on my blog:
http://www.piewacketblog.com/imported-20091031173850/2009/4/19/contained.html

@Piewacket -- I recognize the photo from LJ's thriftwhore. What a lovely piece!

I loved those tables Grace! Congrats! I think they look awesome next to the couch.

My favorite piece of secondhand furniture is this 1950s green settee I bought with my stimulus check last year. It's by far the most wonderful thing I own.

After stalking Craigslist for 2 years, this weekend I finally found the perfect dresser for my bedroom. For $70. Score!

Great end tables. And that finale was INCREDIBLE! I love my long bench made by Mennonnites in Mexico that I got at a local shop.

I hit a small town auction and scored an MCM floor lamp with a fiberglass shade and a coffee table with hairpin legs that spins up to dining height. I got each for a buck a piece. All the dealers were at a bigger auction outside town and the locals aren't into MCM. Best day ever!

So far has to be my George Nelson for Herman Miller Desk $29 at a thrift shop. Second would be a pair of walnut Eames DCM chairs from eBay I got them for about $100 each.

http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/behind-the-blog/behind-the-blog-tyler-goodro-of-plastolux--090047

My favourite has been a vintage Hermes Rocket typewriter that I got at an estate sale for $5.00. It's the deal of the century. I've looked it up on ebay and it goes for anywhere in the $275 to $450 range when selling.

My favorite is my vintage Krueger chair I got on Ebay for approximately $60 bucks (including shipping)...also my two vintage Eden moppet big eye prints found in the trash...the ultimate in thrifting.

Four chrome atomic kitchen chairs that cleaned up like they just stepped out of an old Montgomery Wards catalog.
They were a garage-sale find at $6 for all four chairs.

My curbside find MCM chair that I refinished and changed out the slipseat. So cute!

It was so dark, there were so many. But probably my favorite second-hand find is an appliance -- our refrigerator. It's not vintage, but an incredible simulation. My husband and I found an Elmira Northstar Model 1950 fridge at the local thrift store for $175. (For reference, a new one runs roughly $4K.) It works great, looks great, and totally fits the 40's vintage of the house. It's basically exactly the fridge I wanted for less than 1/10 the price...

Nice nightstands - They're too tall for your sofa by about at least an inch...
...but if you turn them so that their backs are to the sofa arm, they'll function better as end tables and a place to hold drinks.

My favorites? I have so many, it's like being forced to choose your favorite child...

My

Oops, messed up the html there. I was going to say, my awesome 1960s neon-yellow button-tufted sofa bed is the new darling of my living room: http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.90089725.jpg

That's the photo from the Etsy listing, not my actual living room unfortunately. It has some spackling/repainting issues to address before it's ready for a closeup. Still, I love my couch. It's like sitting on a sunbeam and it's in such great shape I can only imagine some little old lady had it tucked away in her attic, covered by plastic.

Found a pair of MCM night stands WITH drawers on Craigslist. Played email-tag with the seller until finally she replied that they had been sold. Days later i get a follow up email saying that the buyers never showed, so if i wanted them they were mine. Vintage 1965 from san francisco, i love them!

I recently bought a Hans Olsen dining table with chairs similar to this one on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/MID-CENTURY-DANISH-MODERN-Chairs-Table-Frem-Eames-Era_W0QQitemZ330387257552QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cec9d78d0

(mine had white seats instead). We were going to buy it from a dealer in Denmark but hesitated because of the shipping costs when I spotted another set on ebay for half the price!

I have found many things i love on craigslist...my whole apartment is dressed up with finds on craigslist...i have been hunting for MCM nightstands just like urs ..."i am so jealous"....lol

Craigslist: 1936 Hardman Peck Baby Grand Piano, Flame Mahogany, was the stage piano for the Goodspeed Operahouse, $100 and all it needed was tuning!!!

And this sofa sectional from craigslist seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplemoth/3198739935/

My whole apt is decorated with thrift store or ebay find. My most recent purchase was a suzani that I scored from ebay at 3 am .. Sometimes sleeping late for an ebay acution pays off: http://nychomework.blogspot.com/

love them and I know what you mean about DEXTER!!

I live a block away from the Dexter house in Long Beach. No, the show isn't filmed in Miami.

My grandfather and my dad were both good carpenters in their younger days and I have quite a few pieces they both made and later gave to me. The furniture is all at least 50 years old and I'm happy to keep it in the family. My aunt's ex-husband is a potter and I have quite a few of his pottery pieces that my aunt gave me.

My place is furnished with great finds that if I paid full price, I would not be able to afford them.

My 1960's leather sofa by Stendig forn Finland cost me $10. I found a pair of very early 1946 George Nakashima chairs for Knoll, $15 for the pair at Goodwill, an early example of the Isamu Noguchi table, $3 for the birch base and $20 for the glass top, a Gio Ponti "superleggera" chair and a Bertoia wire chair for free (someone left them on the curb for trash pick-up), a pair of Eames DCM for $5 each at the Salvation Army.

I think the total at this time to furnish the apartment is less than the cost to park a car in Century City.

i like the way the night stands look with your couch.

My favorite find is my $35 vintage couch. It's a hideous gold velvet, but it has good bones and was so cheap, it makes me happy each time i remember how much i paid for it

AND OH MY GOD, DEXTER!!!!!!!!!!

I just got a tall (with headrest) medium brown Westnofa Siesta chair for $40 on Craigslist. It was cheap because it has "age appropriate wear," though the canvas (?) is still tight and great, and so is the frame. I oiled the wood and now that looks great. The leather looks great, too, except for some wear to the seat coloring. By the way, any ideas on the best way to go about re-dying it? (I don't want to change the color.)

my mcm slipper chair with swivel base and tripod legs for 35 bucks. Even with shipping it was under 80 and my Paul McCobb nightstand with the nickel circle pulls for 100 bucks.

Nice nightstands! My favorite piece of furniture is still my lovely blue 1910s vanity. It was about $400, but it is the one piece of furniture that I absolutely, completely adore and could never replace.

As for best deals, I have found some great stuff curbside for free, including my coffee table, a side cabinet (which I refinished), the table/desk in my bedroom, and a vintage metal stool that I use as a side table.

My favorite CL find is my dining table. It's a small table (seats 4 comfortably, 6 in a pinch) with cast iron legs and a marble top. Now if I could just find awesome chairs to go with it...

The huge oil painting that sits above our living room couch. It's an abstract of ships on the waterfront, and I bought it for $5 at Goodwill two years ago. I LOVE IT. Most of my art is second hand. I love the hunt!

recently one of my daughters was moving to an apt in brooklyn and i was on the lookout for a much needed couch. incredibly i came across the perfect, mint condition, basic, neutral, modern sleeper sofa at a local salvage place for only $50!!! i took it immediately without asking my daughter or even haggling the price...she loved it! score!!

It would have to be all my Pyrex bowls because they remind me of my grandma. I wish I had kept hers and not let my mom give them to Goodwill.

my set of 6 kai kristiansen chairs in teak for $25 each at a yard sale, and my complete bedroom suite of 60's broyhill brasilia furniture (king headboard, double dresser, arch mirror, 2 commodes and tallboy) for $100 at out of the closet thrift store 15 years ago.

My MCM teak desk with chrome legs and matching file cabinet, which I picked up on the last day of an estate sale for $100. It's huge and the wood is gorgeous - it makes me feel so legit just sitting at it! It had belonged to an architect and came from a fab 60's house in Pasadena - score!

I saw those nightstands! I know exactly which ebay store you got those from. I loved them when I saw them but am on a budget right now so I couldn't put in a bid. Glad to know they went to a good home!

Three vintage Italian blown glass lamps. Two are brass tole with glass flowers and a glass globe on the bottom, and one is pink glass all over with white/gold glass applied flowers. I love love LOVE them all :)

don't get me started on this question. I lived in Ohio once, a mid-century thrifting wonderland. sigh. I've thought of taking photos for Apartment therapy with pricetags, but it would be too cruel. I have not paid over $10 for anything but my couch, and that's from Macy's.

My favorite right now is a blue damask couch I purchased the other day for $80. The fabric is just lovely http://geekdetails.com/blog/?p=2032

I've also picked up a 1960s reproduction of a Victorian couch, original fabric and only $50.

My favorite eBay find was just delivered this week from Florida, and I love it. It's the same coffee table that Fawn Galli has in her Brooklyn home, an octagonal chrome and glass jewel that I've wanted every since seeing it in Domino. And it was cheap!

I got a vintage Map Chest for $300 on CL. I've never seen its equal...and it matches my antique oak desk. I kinda want to replace the tracks with metal...the wood ones have some friction...but since I'm a paper-freak, it's a great way to stash fancy sheets flat, and tools and supplies in the file drawers on the bottom. Seller brought it home from Paris!