Basements and Beyond
About Basements and Beyond
Basements & Beyond
Knowing that it is often difficult to liquidate your family's personal belongings, we offer integrity and experience that turns ordinary selling into a successful estate sale. We start by arranging and organizing everything in the home - emptying closets and cupboards, cleaning items as necessary - displaying is key! Besides the use of the internet for research we have a library of reference books on our personal shelves. We then price, advertise in local newspapers and other venues and use our large and growing email list for notices and sell, sell, sell! You only need to call. What could be easier? Basements & Beyond has been selling antiques, collectibles and household items on the West Coast for over 25 years!
About Me...Barbara
As soon as I could make change my mother had me buying. I bought all kinds of glassware and pottery: Depression, Fostoria, Heisey, McCoy, Roseville and Weller. That was for her. When I was about eight or nine years old, I started buying, fixing up and re-selling Barbie dolls. We sold at local swap meets and flea markets. Twice a year my mom would hold a three day yard sale in our backyard that could rival any outlet mall! I always knew that I would be selling something. My mother sold a mix of antiques, collectibles and nice quality second hand “stuff” at those outdoor markets. Never having an antique store of her own she sold to those that did. Being raised in that environment only led to my passion for selling nearly ANYTHING!
I started selling at those same swap meets and flea markets in the early 1980’s slowly adding outdoor antique shows such as Moss Landing, San Juan Bautista, Old Sacramento, Oakhurst and more. In the mid 80’s I rented a booth at Fulton’s Folly Antique Collective (And, yes, I’m STILL there!) By the late 80’s I had added indoor shows - Fresno’s Serendipity, San Francisco’s Cow Palace, the Tacoma Dome in Washington, the Portland Convention Center and others. It was about this time that I conducted the first of many estate sales. It began as just “helping out” a friend who needed to liquidate the contents his or her parents’ home. I worked several years with my dear friend Shari who eventually moved to Kentucky. Word traveled quickly that we were available to do such sales and one friend would tell another, who told someone at their church, who mentioned it to a co-worker and so on. I didn’t feel the need to advertise“🦆word of mouth kept me as busy as I had liked to be. Over the last decade I’ve worked with an amazing team.
A new era has begun. I'm advertising in the Valley Yellow Pages, creating this website (which will be an on-going project) and, as always, relying on word-of-mouth references.
Service areas
Based out of Fresno, CA also serving areas near San Francisco , CA , Los Angeles , CA , Hanford , CA and Fresno , CA