
Another one is the furniture database at the Colonial Williamsburg museum ( here). One of my favorites is the Hancock Shaker Village database ( here). Museum furniture databases: An amazing free resource that I’ve found is searchable online furniture databases at museums or living museums.And quite often if I click through the image, I’m taken to an antique auction house, and I find multiple high-resolution views of the furniture piece. Google Image Search: This is usually where I start, because I can enter a term like “ antique trestle table“, and then click the “images” tab in Google, and I can scroll through thousands of beautiful photos until I find just the right look that I’m going for.Here are some free resources that I use for furniture ideas: I look at furniture that is pleasing to the eye, and that has the correct proportions for furniture.

For ideas I either visit a museum or look at photos of furniture, both antique furniture and modern furniture. I always start my furniture design process by looking at existing furniture pieces. Most furniture designs that you see were at least inspired by someone else’s earlier furniture design. There are very few original furniture designs out there.

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