Aladdin Consignment is your destination for high-end, gently used furniture and accessories. The store has a two-week waiting list to get items in the store. Aladdin also has a whole wish book of items that buyers are looking for.
Aladdin Consignment is your destination for high-end, gently used furniture and accessories. The store has a two-week waiting list to get items in the store. Aladdin also has a whole wish book of items that buyers are looking for.
Aladdin Consignment is your destination for high-end, gently used furniture and accessories. The store has a two-week waiting list to get items in the store. Aladdin also has a whole wish book of items that buyers are looking for.
the virginia gazette • williamsburg, virginia november 17, 2010
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Aladdin Furniture Consignment & Rug Matchmaker 7131 Merrimac Trail • Williamsburg 757.206.1665 www.aladdinconsignment.com Aladdin Consignment: Bringing Lovers of Bavarian Garden • Alizé Bistro 601 Prince George Street • Williamsburg Fine Furniture and Accessories Together 757.258.8882 By K.H. Queen www.BavarianGarden.com • www.AlizeBistro.com arlier this fall, a Richmond fam- Concrete Jack Costs about one third of replacing concrete Call us today at 757.566.1534 E ily brought a whole dining room of Henkel Harris furniture to Aladdin Consignment in www.ConcreteJack.com Williamsburg. Although there are plenty of furniture consignment stores Creative Cabinet Works in Richmond, this family knew that Come See Our New Showroom 7191-A Richmond Road • 757.903.5801 even after hiring movers, they’d still www.CreativeCabinetWorksVa.com come out ahead. “It still paid them to bring their furniture here,” Aladdin Designs by Varujan, Master Jeweler owner Mary Ann Gist says. “There 1321 Jamestown Rd., Ste. 201 were shocked.” Williamsburg Office Park The consigners weren’t the only 757.259.2262 • www.designsbyvarujan.com ones to come out ahead. The buyers daughter-in-law Lori Detwiler, or Richmond, Tappahannock, Mathews William A. Doig Health Club and Spa also felt fortunate. “The Henkel Harris another member of the talented and elsewhere check in on Saturdays, table and chairs went out the same at Williamsburg Landing Aladdin team will look at them in your often lining up at the door for the 10 757.565.6545 day,” Gist says. “A woman came in vehicle and determine if they’re a a.m. opening. Customers have www.williamsburglanding.com just as we got it set up, took a picture good fit for Aladdin and its clientele. bought furniture at Aladdin and and went home and showed her hus- Aladdin also can arrange for pickup moved it to homes in North Carolina, General Nutrition Center band. He said, ‘You better get back and delivery. Florida, Massachusetts, and Iowa. 4680 Monticello Avenue there and buy it. That stuff goes fast.’ Monticello Marketplace She got lucky.” Call Gist a furniture matchmaker. If you really want an item at 757.565.5100 She has a two-week waiting list to get Aladdin, don’t hesitate. One man You’ll hear stories like this often at items in the store. She also has a recently told Gist he liked a sofa, and Heritage Commons Aladdin Consignment. Aladdin, beside whole wish book of items that buyers then walked away to look at other 236 Commons Way • Williamsburg WaWa on Merrimac Trail, is your des- are looking for. Often when someone furniture and accessories. Within min- 888.623.6131 • TTY 800.828.1120 tination to find high-end, gently used calls her with an item they want to utes, a woman walked in the store www.heritagecommonssl.com furniture and accessories at reason- consign, she already has a buyer in and began admiring the same sofa. able prices. The House Key mind from her wish book. “I even call Gist quickly went back to the man and 7628 George Washington Memorial Hwy. asked him his intentions. He was Yorktown, Virginia 23692 ready to buy, so she marked the sofa 757.968.5266 ‘sold,’ and the interested lady missed out by mere minutes. Piney Pointe Landing Gist enjoys redecorating the shop New Kent Riverfront Development John Britt 804.514.5235 Bob Klein 804.241.8102 after items sell. She also helps her www.pineypointelanding.com buyers with decorating tips. Stop by during the holidays, look at the deco- Pyramid Roofing rations including a fabulous Christmas Certified Green Screened Company tree, and take time to enjoy Christmas Wmbg 757.258.3595 • Peninsula 757.247.9600 cookies. www.pyramidroofing.com You’ll quickly see why Aladdin has Jeanne I Ruff, OD, LLC Optometrist become a favorite stop for buyers and 1107 Richmond Road • Williamsburg sellers alike. “In 3.5 years, I’ve built my 757.229.4222 clientele of buyers and sellers into the www.ruffeyes.com thousands,” Gist says. “The quality of furniture I get is high-end and that Schumann Professional Dentistry Center quality reputation and our reasonable Dr. Nancy Schumann prices attract both buyers and sellers.” 5309 Discovery Park Boulevard Come in once and you’ll see why. 757.564.0900 • www.DentistWilliamsburg.com
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at Williamsburg 5425 Richmond Rd. • Williamsburg VA 23188 At Aladdin, you may be able to 757.565.3000 • www.carolina-furniture.com furnish an entire home with coordi- nating pieces that someone else lov- Spa Botanica ingly assembled over the years. “We Embassy Suites Spa & Convention Center had a big houseful of natural cherry 1700 Coliseum Drive, Hampton, VA 23666 custom made furniture from 757.213.8511 • www.spabotanicahampton.com Kingsmill—four corner cabinets, tables, chairs, dressers, a bed and a lot Thomas Nelson Community College of artwork,” Gist says. “We sold Historic Triangle Campus 757.253.4300 Hampton Campus 757.825.2700 almost everything.” www.tncc.edu Consigners like Aladdin because they get 60 percent of the sales price, The Velvet Shoestring a better split that many similar stores 311 2nd Street • Williamsburg offer. They also appreciate that their 757.220.9494 items usually move quickly. Gist has thevelvetshoestring.biz an expert eye for what will sell so if Vertigo Dizzy Clinic, LLC she takes your sofa, china cabinet or 337 McLaws Circle • Williamsburg other pieces, she’s confident there’s a 757.476.6628 buyer somewhere. Aladdin’s mark- www.vertigotesting.com down after 30 days is just 10 percent,
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compared to 15-20 percent at some shops. Accessories such as lamps, mir- people on the wish list and tell them what date ‘their’ item is going to in focus... 494 McLaws Circle • Williamsburg rors and art are never marked down. come in the door,” Gist says. 75.229.0275 But most items never make it to mark- Sometimes the store gets so busy Aladdin www.thewhalingcompany.com down. that regulars checking on when cer- Consignment WindsorMeade of Williamsburg “Eighty-five percent of my inven- tain items are arriving end up pitching 7131 Merrimac Trail 3900 Windsor Hall Drive • Williamsburg tory moves out in less than 30 days,” in to give the team a hand. “Everyone Williamsburg, Va. 23185 757.941.3615 • toll free 866.403.5503 Gist says. wants to be in the know,” Gist says. 757.206.1665 www.windsormeade.org If you’re a seller, Gist will make an Aladdin regulars stop by as often www.aladdinconsignment.com The Williamsburg Players appointment to go to your home and as three times a week—the store is Hours 200 Hubbard Lane • Williamsburg look at large pieces you’re interested open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday MON–FRI • 10AM–5PM 757.229.0431 in consigning. If you have accessories, through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. SAT • 10AM–4PM www.williamsburgplayers.org you can bring them in and Gist, her on Saturday. Others customers from Closed Sunday
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