Look at my treasure

It doesn’t always take a lot of money to find a treasure. But it does take a good eye.

Alice Rhoads has a good eye.

When a new job took her to the Atlanta area in the 1970s, Rhoads took advantage of the fact that most people at the time were looking for mahogany. Rhoads liked the look of old oak and she talked her way into the back rooms of shops and auction houses across the south. She purchased pieces that needed a little work and with the help of her late husband, restored her less than perfect finds and turned them into beautiful antiques.

Each room of Rhoads’ Spokane home is testament to her discerning eye. The house is attractively filled with a fascinating assortment of furniture, crystal, china and silver pieces she discovered across the country. With a real talent for display, Rhoads has built vignettes that highlight her collection.

“I always loved to find something that is different, that you don’t see every day,” she says. “And it’s been fun to find a way to show it off.”