Smithville shop voted Best Antiques for second year in a row
By Ellen Pill
October 13, 2016
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I grew up dusting my moms antiques. They were family heirlooms from both sides of the family. As an adult one of the best Christmas gifts I ever received from my parents was a restored trunk filled with treasures and keepsakes held dear from several generations, said Daphne Ross, who grew up to create an award-winning antiques store.
Years ago on a weekly basis my husband, Ronni, and I attended his classmates auction house, Ross said. It was located at the rear of his antique mall. I enjoyed walking through the mall booths, thinking, I can do this.
After working as a dealer at an antique mall for eight years, the antique lover decided to go for it.
The building that houses the shop is itself an antique. Built in 1850, the Ross family has owned it for 40 years. When Ross decided to live her dream and open her own shop, it was her mom who suggested she go into the family-owned building.
With a prominent location on Main Street in Smithville, it seemed the logical choice. Ross was raised there and said, Smithville will always be my hometown.
From 1976 to 1984 the building had once housed her mothers own shop, Joanns Doll Boutique. It has great character and charm, a perfect building to hold the inventory I sell, Ross said.
The name originated with her family as well. Thirty years ago when Ross and her husband purchased a five-acre mini-farm, her mom suggested calling it Just Enough Acres.
When I was brainstorming to name my shop six years ago, our son, Mason, suggested Just Enough Antiques. It fit, Ross said.
Ross has collected a wide range of items in the large space. Primitive antiques are my first choice to fill six rooms, two porches, a rear patio, a shop front and a large yard space, Ross said. I also love to hunt and sell vintage pieces, advertising collectibles, farmhouse finds and barn digs. She carries a number of locally made products as well.
I love the beauty of imperfection. The antiques I sell are just that: beautiful and imperfect. The primitive antiques found in the storefront are actual primitives, not decor items, Ross said.
She is adamant about carrying U.S. made items. There are no mass-produced, made-in-China items here. Made in the U.S.A. is very important.
Ross explained the process honed over 34 years of marriage is a team effort involving her pickin partner husband. The two hit the road before the rooster even thinks about crowing.
With our flashlights in hand, we walk miles and miles up and down rows and rows of outdoor market vendors, Ross said.
The pair attends auctions within a three-county area and beyond. The antique lover said, I am buying every single week during all times of the year.
Ross reputation has spread far and wide, and her second win in a row with the Akron-Canton Hot List has proved the point and helped to spread the word. The shop is the current and past winner of the Hot Lists Best Antiques title.
I get invited to pick barns, garages, sheds and homes. I follow up on every lead that comes my way and will suggest buyers for items I am not interested in, Ross said.
Nov. 1 is the Sixth Annual Big Sled Reveal. Thats the day Ross will display the antique sleds she has collected during the year.
Last year I presented 61 sleds and sold every single one throughout the winter.
There also will be a Christmas open house Nov. 5 and Nov. 6 that will include a charity drive.
Just Enough Antiques is located in Smithville at 134 W. Main Street.
