Where memories meet your heart.

When a house holds a whole lifetime, we know what to do with it.

Estate sales run start to finish, cash offers on entire households, and a vintage shop in Etowah Town Square. Family-run and local — you deal with the owners, not a crew of strangers.

The Red Unicorn: an engraving of a rearing unicorn

Why families call us

The careful part is the whole job.

Nothing leaves carelessly

We open the boxes, check the pockets, and go through the books. Photographs, letters, documents, cash, and jewelry come back to the family — that happens on nearly every job.

One person, start to finish

The person who walks the house with you is the person who runs the sale and hands you the settlement. No call center, no rotating crews.

We buy, so we price honestly

Because we run a shop, we know what things actually bring in Western North Carolina right now — not what a price guide said twenty years ago.

Please don't clean up first

The junk drawer is not junk.

The most expensive mistake families make is tidying before we get there. Costume jewelry, old tools, sewing baskets, tins, papers, half-used workshop stock, the contents of the kitchen drawers — that is often where the money is hiding.

Leave it. Let us look first. If something truly is trash, we'll say so and haul it.

What's usually in the house

  • Furniture, case goods, and primitives
  • Glassware, china, crystal, and silver
  • Tools, shop equipment, and garage contents
  • Jewelry, costume jewelry, and watches
  • Art, prints, frames, and mirrors
  • Books, photographs, and paper ephemera
  • Rugs, quilts, linens, and textiles
  • Toys, signage, typewriters, and oddities
  • Farm, barn, and outbuilding contents

The shop

Come see what came in this week.

The floor changes constantly, because the houses we buy keep changing. Farm tables and rolltop desks, mid-century glass and lamps, tools, typewriters, signage, books, and a fair amount of the genuinely strange.

  • Farm tables & case goods
  • Mid-century glass & lamps
  • Silver, china & crystal
  • Tools & primitives
  • Typewriters & signage
  • Books & ephemera
  • Oddities & curiosities
  • Where 20 Etowah Town Square, Suite 30, Etowah, NC 28729
  • Mon – Thu 10am – 5pm
  • Fri – Sat 10am – 6pm
  • Sunday Closed
  • Phone (828) 290-9937
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Everyone's so busy these days. Come slow down, take a stroll, and see if you can find Ruby.
The Red Unicorn

Not sure which option fits?

Tell us what you're looking at. We'll say plainly whether a sale, a buyout, or a donation run makes the most sense — even when the answer isn't the one that pays us.

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