Recently antique furniture has been out of favor and many antique furniture stores are getting to discount their merchandise 50% or more to sell it. So, right now many people say that antique furniture is not a perfect investment because they believed that modern, sleek furniture is “in” now, but antiques could be fad in 10 years. Most people also can’t afford to purchase the pieces that are of worth collecting. The maintenance and upkeep of these “piece of gem” are also particularly tedious and you really have to know what you are doing as well, one mistake can completely break the value of the piece.