Craigslist and eBay become interior design muses (Newsday)

After hours of scouring through the cheap and the ugly on Craigslist, interior designer MaryBeth Wilson found gold: two French-carved chairs with matching ottomans for $750. All they needed was a good steam clean, and she had a pair of nearly perfect, antique chairs worth about $3,000 and a happy, budget-conscious client. “You look through a lot of junk on Craigslist,” Wilson said, “but you can …

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