A modest Ballard storefront with a scrolly sign on the side of the building, Almost Antiques has room after room of gilt mirrors, tapestried love seats, lamps, and dining sets. Lots of quality furnishings in mahogany, maple, walnut, and cherry. There's crystal, china, sterling, and quality flatware, too.
New shipments arrive often.
Without a doubt this is the largest antique store in town, with 22,000 square feet of sales and storage space. Browsing among the antique kitchen accessories is great rainy-day fun. Endless variety and good prices, but don't expect perfect quality. Paintings, ceramics, bronzes, ivory, jade, and furniture from the Orient are museum quality - and priced accordingly. A Capitol Hill mansion provides a resplendent showplace for exquisite 18th-century English and French furniture, as well as Oriental rugs, porcelain, screens, and art glass.