How to get family heirlooms, used furniture from here to there

Like many green, budget-minded consumers, Fayre Makeig, of Belfast, Maine, furnishes her home only with secondhand furniture.

“I can’t imagine buying a new piece of furniture,” said the wife and mother of two. “I wouldn’t want to pay that much.”

Until recently, however, her furniture search never went beyond her immediate area because she was the one picking it up. That changed when her 100-year-old grandfather died, and she had the chance to inherit several heirlooms.

“He was so elegant and had great taste,” she said.