Best Place To Find A $20 Set Of Shelves

In these tough economic times, you're probably not going to drop $60 on an antique gilded picture frame. Maybe you weren't going to do that anyway. But you do need someplace to put those stacks of Bowie records and complete DVD box sets of The Wire and Lost, which are currently strewn all over your apartment floor. The CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUE MARKET feels your pain. Step away from the "Free" section on Craigslist, cancel that trip to IKEA, and get to Lechmere, where five floors and 150 dealer spaces of unique, non-particle-board goodness await. The antique market, whose sister store is in Provincetown, is an enormous treasure trove of furniture, knick-knacks you didn't even know you needed but will immediately want (oh, hello, enormous bronze owl), clothing, artwork, books, records, and more. There's plenty for the serious antique-hunter, but deals also abound — as does dust, so pack extra allergy meds for the trip.

CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUE MARKET | 201 Monsignor O'Brien Highway, Cambridge | 617.868.9655 | marketantique.com/cambridg.htm