This store is an experience. It can only be described as a treasure hunting paradise, and it is NOT for the faint of heart. This is not your neatly organized view the shelf kind of establishment, this is "it sits where it fits, and that's...
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This store is an experience. It can only be described as a treasure hunting paradise, and it is NOT for the faint of heart. This is not your neatly organized view the shelf kind of establishment, this is "it sits where it fits, and that's it." I have been a thrifting, antiquing, salvage yard crawling individual since I was knee high to a grasshopper and ya'll the place made me just stop. I just needed a dresser and a nightstand after arriving in Detroit last fall. Those diy build a furniture pieces aren't adequate enough for grown folk clothes. Thankfully as I short circuited one if the employees saw me and inquired what I was looking for, and then proceeded to lead me on an adventurous path around the store. He showed me one dresser then looked at me and said "Mm....no. That doesn't look like something you would want and much like the Hare in Alice he rushed off toward another section of the store as I raced to keep up. It's not only vintage- its also hotel liquidation, and he took me to a dresser that was exactly what I had been seeking, along with several matching nightstands. Then he said "Do you want to see the second floor?" Sir my wallet was not prepared for the first floor, let alone a second, I thought, as I politely declined the second floor invitation on the way to checkout, as I deftly retrieved a vintage leather attaché case that I didn't need, to add to my bill. My child would later lay claim to said case and we have agreed that it I will maintain custody unless he should find himself a law school graduate.....
I can't tell you how ridiculously affordable the bill was, including delivery (delivery was in HOURS because the truck was coming to my neighborhood that day anyway!) Especially after weeks of looking on FB at "flipped" dressers for hundreds upon hundreds of dollars, or diy builds for double the unbuilt price, or even just grandmas dresser that hadn't even been wiped for photos. I went to a habitat store, thrift stores, and perused holiday sales with no luck...but Fred's laughed and said, "We gotchu."
Will I be back? Absolutely, after string coffee and a protein filled breakfast, and maybe a headlamp to thoroughly examine every nook and cranny because it is after all a treasure hunters paradise. 10 out of 10- highly recommend!