North Richmond News

Hunter Lange, which sits near the corner of Lakeside Avenue and Hilliard Road, was recently featured in Style Weekly’s monthly Home supplement:

Hunter Lange has an abundance of old furniture and garden accessories sure to delight shabby-chic aficionados.

�I don�t like anything new,� Jones says, but heavy, dark antiques aren�t her style either. �It�s cheerful,� she says. �It�s breezy and light.�

Jones, a cheerful, birdlike person herself, points out a few of her favorite recent finds. An Eastlake dresser, painted white, with the original acorn pulls (Jones does much repainting and repairing of the pieces that come in). A century-old Hungarian cabinet repainted with a primitive rooster and hen. An early 1900s Victorian lamp base with two clinging cherubs and flaking white paint. Wrought-iron garden furniture. And a 1920s birdbath filled with seashells and ivy.

Jones is too fond of this last piece to sell it. �I buy what I like,� she says. �I never buy what matches.�