Golightly's Antiques

Here we are! This is my favorite antique shop...the one featured in the winter 08 edition of Creative Homes, that I spoke of in this post. It's located in an old house that has been converted into a business. I would have loved to see the house in it's heyday! If you are ever in the Fort Worth area & want a fun shopping trip, then stop in & spend a couple of hours...the ambience is incredible! Golightlys is located @ 5505 Davis Boulevard, North Richland Hills, Texas. Fort Worth & Dallas are both comprised of lots of little "suburbias" & North Richland Hills is one of them so if you're in Fort Worth, you're close enough.

The tearoom is closed so I didn't get pics of it but to be honest, it's pretty far down the list on "my favorite tea rooms" anyway.

They're very proud of the article & showcase it on their counter.


Let's pour a cup of coffee before we make the tour. Today they're sampling Butter Toffee...yummm!

Most of the shop is now in sepia tones...even though every room is a different dealer's.

I may have to go back & get this little sconce.

I love the opened "chest" (I think it may actually be a large silverware box) as the centerpiece on this table! (click on picture to enlarge for details)

I love the toile plates w/ the white plates & the bronze chargers & I have all those components although my brown & white transferware plates aren't nearly this nice. I'll upgrade to nicer ones when I find some more affordable than $18 a plate!

They had these "Time for Christmas" clocks all over the shop...in all sizes. I have some clock face print-outs that I think I will use to mimic these & make a faux clock. I'll share the clock face images w/ y'all another day.

Most of the rooms have wonderful glazed walls .

Of course these little shoes reminded me of Dawn's wonderful pincushions.

I'm also thinking about going back for this iron piece. ( I think it was a porch support). I've been looking for a leaded glass window or a long, rectangular iron "something" to hang over my sofa but this is probably more shabby than I want & I'd really like a more substantial piece. It was only $30 though so I may get it, make do w/it until I find a nicer replacement & then use it elsewhere.

This is why I never buy my vintage ornaments from antique stores! $20 for 5 ornies....I'm not paying that much!

I love how they decorate the shop as rooms & don't try to stuff everything, they have to sell, in.

Look at the ingenious way they have of covering those ugly flourescent fixtures!

OMGosh! I love this French (?) piece!

Look how they stenciled chandeliers onto the walls & then bejeweled them w/ rhinestones.

In this room, they also glazed pages from books & antique photos onto the walls. I would love to do this but am scared I would change my mind later...how would you ever get that stuff off? I have that iron cherub wreath on my front porch but I bought it from eBay.

I saved the best for last. ;o) This is the room that Lynn Rodriquez (the woman from Creative Homes) has.... I adore it! Maybe one day I could do my bedroom in these sepia tones. It's so restful!

I ALMOST bought that birdcage & may still! And I'm also trying to tell myself that I neither need, nor have a place for, that gate but I don't seem to be listening. ;o)

Love the brown & white toile quilt.

Isn't this settee wonderful? And not a bad price I guess... although out of my budget @ $380.

And look at the fabric on those chairs! How chic!!!!

Hope you enjoyed "tiking" w/ me...I'll share my few purchases another day.