Big sale! Laurl Designs at Hanna Antiques

It is time for a big sale! I need to move some beauties to make room for new items. Items from 20% to 40% off are now tagged!


I love a great sale. I hope you do, too!


Hanna Antiques is located on 7th Ave South near Highway 31. Look for the big signs above the building.



Here's a peek of the items on sale!

newly upholstered chair with pretty nail head detail!

great size on these Staffordshires!

Green Mohair, caning, pretty legs... and a comfortable seat!

Cloverleaf table at its best! Perfect height for a side table.

I love this gold settee, pretty as is, or it could be recovered!

Green silk table with removable skirt!

Table from Bromberg's with a weighted base. Perfect for a lamp with the weighted base preventing tipping.

Beautiful leaded crystal lamp. Has really pretty sparkle. Custom shade.

You've come a long way baby- I finally feel full

I have worked on the transition from one antique store to another on the other side of town for the last two weeks and I finally feel "full" in the new space and the old is closed. I have taken pictures each day I go in to see the progress and to feel that there has been progress.

From day one to yesterday, here's how far I've come along in the space.

A few items, a little on the walls, and an open box started the first day.

Second visit brought lots of chairs, new clear shelves for my cameras and some more suitcases. And reminders from the staff at Hanna's that I "still have some space".

Phase three- I'm moved out on one space and can pick and choose my favorite items for the space... which means the house looks like an antique store... and not in a good way.

Phase three brought more tables and some styling opportunities to the space.
Yes, that 20% off is still available through the end of the month

In phase three, I created an "office space" on one end of the booth with my desk and awesome chairs serving as "guest chairs- perhaps I am missing Corporate America a little. However, this also brought the barrister bookcase for display for my bookend collection and a space for a fantastic hand cut lead crystal lamp.

New digs- Hanna Antiques

In the new year, I have decided to make some business changes- freshen-up, change of scene, etc.  Beside being published and the cover story in Birmingham Home and Garden magazine as a New Designer to Watch, I have changed my antique store locale. I am currently moving into Hanna Antiques at 2424 7th ave South in downtown Birmingham. I'll be full moved in this weekend!

It  is also Hanna's annual January Sale! New antiques, in new digs, with a 20% off sale! A perfect match for savings.

Stop by my space on the main floor near the small ramp to see the new items I have recently added to my stock for this new location! You will find a lovely Limoges tray, Nippon cocoa set, a darling armoire- perfect for a nursery, handsome vintage trunks, and some small Staffordshire dogs. A camera collection will arrive tomorrow!

Shop local, shop Staffordshire!

Today I hit three local antique/ vintage stores and noticed a variety of Staffordshires- dogs, cats, lions, and one fake lion. I am personally not into them. It is the human eyebrows on the figures that gets me.
However, I am in the minority. And Hanna Antiques was thick with Staffordshire figures. Here's a collection of what I found!