Inspiration for Every Home Decorator with a Passion for the Past "The Heirloom House" is a humorous personal account of two interlocking obsessions: eBay and the quest to create a vacation house that looks and feels like a family heirloom. Beginning with recollections of her childhood summers in Nantucket, author Sherry Lefevre narrates the development of her personal aesthetic: wanting everything people with old inherited houses have. When she receives a bequest that allows her to purchase her own ramshackle summerhouse, she clicks on eBay and emerges two months later with a house fully furnished with other people s ancestral treasures, from toile curtains to taxidermy, at a more-than-affordable price. Filled with photos and drawings, "The Heirloom House" invites readers to follow Lefevre s eBay searches and imitate her heirloom-hunting strategies. Antique treasures are classified and eBay search words are suggested to assist the reader s own treasure hunting. Anecdotes, both informative and entertaining, enliven descriptions of the antique objects acquired, and while the whole endeavor is relayed with humor, the underlying message is a serious one: with enough love, anyone can have an ancestral homean heirloom house.".