Mineral, Virginia is a small Louisa County town of fewer than five hundred people, originally called Tolersville before adopting its current name in 1902 to reflect the gold mining boom that once put fifteen mines within two miles of downtown. On the town’s Main Street today, across from Blue Ridge Bank, Yesterday and Today occupies a storefront at 401 Mineral Avenue that blends antique furniture, consignment clothing, and craft supplies into a single small-town shopping stop.
The store’s tagline captures its approach directly: old items, new items, and old items made new. That third category is where Yesterday and Today distinguishes itself most. Rather than simply reselling antique and vintage furniture as-is, the shop reinvents and upcycles pieces, offering Dixie Belle chalk and silk paint lines both for sale and as the basis for hands-on craft classes, letting customers learn to refinish and personalize their own furniture finds rather than only buying already-finished pieces. Alongside furniture and home decor, the shop runs a genuine consignment clothing operation, giving shoppers a rotating source of vintage and quality preowned apparel, and it also produces custom printed clothing for local businesses, events, and personal gifts, a service that sets it apart from a typical single-focus antique shop.
Because Yesterday and Today operates as both a brick-and-mortar storefront and an online seller, customers can browse posts remotely and pay over the phone to hold an item before coming in, a flexible model well-suited to a small town where not every buyer can drop in during business hours. For larger or heavier pieces that are local-pickup only, the shop uses outside lockboxes to allow 24/7 pickup, letting customers retrieve a purchase outside normal store hours without needing staff present, a practical touch for a small operation run without a large staff.
The shop keeps a limited but consistent schedule: open Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., closed Sunday through Tuesday. Mineral’s small, historic downtown, which includes structures on the National Register of Historic Places, gives the shop a genuinely small-town setting, the kind where a consignment and craft shop naturally becomes a gathering point for locals looking to sell, swap, or simply browse what neighbors have brought in.
For anyone in Louisa County looking for antique furniture with room to be reimagined, vintage clothing on consignment, or a hands-on paint class to learn a new refinishing skill, Yesterday and Today offers a genuinely community-rooted alternative to big-box home decor shopping. Yesterday and Today is a consignment and antique shop on Main Street in Mineral, Virginia, combining vintage furniture, upcycled decor, consignment clothing, and Dixie Belle paint classes in one small-town storefront.
