A guest bedroom in Wrisinger’s house includes an antique iron bed frame and other antique furnishings, from the night- stand to the light fixtures.
that her home has a special style all its own. “I’m pretty content with what I have,” she says, “and I don’t want my place to look like the person next door who went to Nebraska Furniture Mart and bought the same thing, only in different colors.” ^ Writer Corbin Crable will choose antique stores over Nebraska Furniture Mart any day. You can e-mail him at ccrable@jccc.edu.
able to enjoy it – besides, the table’s absence leaves a bit more room in her own home for antiques that might catch her eye as she strolls through Kansas City’s City Market and its antique stores. It’s only in one of the metro area’s many antique stores and flea markets that Wrisinger knows she will find those special treasures that one day will belong to her son. In the meantime, she continues to be proud to know
on the table’s underside. “I told him, ‘I don’t care if you’re penniless. Don’t sell that pool table,’” Wrisinger laughs. “I get a lot of offers for it, but I always say, ‘No, I’m not letting that go.’ So, I’ve got people who are waiting for a phone call. … But I think the older he gets, the more he will appreciate that I kept it and I wanted him to have it.” She didn’t have space for the pool table in her own home, but says she is glad her son is
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