Delaquis Antiques

Twenty minutes south of Winnipeg on Highway 59, near the community of Ile-des-Chenes in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot, Delaquis Antiques has spent more than a decade turning castoff furniture into pieces people want to live with again. Patrick Delaquis runs the shop, and his background sits right at the intersection of dealing and doing: he does not just source antique dressers, oak buffets, china cabinets, and stoneware crocks from estate sales around Manitoba, he also refinishes and restores them himself, so a piece that arrives scuffed, water-stained, or missing hardware can leave the showroom ready for a dining room or entryway. That combination is the shops defining trait. Plenty of antique dealers sell as-is; Delaquis Antiques treats refinishing as a core service rather than an afterthought, offering free estimates on refinishing projects and free appraisals for family heirlooms that customers are trying to understand or price before a sale or an insurance conversation. The inventory leans toward solid wood case furniture and farmhouse-era practical goods rather than fine art or high-end collectibles: think buffets and hutches with real dovetail joinery, dressers with their original hardware or restored to take new hardware, vintage scales, and stoneware crocks and jugs that once did real work in Manitoba kitchens and root cellars. Because the shop regularly buys out estate sales in and around Winnipeg, the floor changes often, and Delaquis has made a point of telling regular visitors when a fresh batch has just come in from a local estate, since those pieces tend to move quickly once refinished. Shoppers who browse the online photo gallery before making the drive can get a feel for the range on hand, from small decorative stoneware to substantial case pieces, though the gallery is a sampling rather than a live inventory list, so a call ahead is worthwhile if someone is hunting a specific type of piece. The shop sits in a part of Manitoba where antique buyers already expect to drive a little, and Delaquis Antiques leans into that by being a genuine destination rather than a passthrough stop: people come from Winnipeg and surrounding rural communities specifically for the refinishing expertise as much as for the finished pieces already on the floor. Visiting hours run Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm and Saturday from 10am to 4pm, giving both weekday browsers and weekend antiquers a reasonable window to stop in. The shop is closed Sundays. For anyone furnishing a farmhouse-style home, restoring a family piece, or simply looking for solid wood furniture with some history in it, a phone call to 204-388-4850 or a visit to the Highway 59 showroom is the way in. What sets Delaquis Antiques apart in Manitobas antiques trade is that refinishing and restoration are not outsourced, they are done in-house by the same person sourcing the pieces, which means buyers are dealing directly with the craftsman who understands the material history of what he is selling. That hands-on approach, paired with a steady flow of fresh estate-sale finds and free appraisals for family pieces, makes the shop equally useful to someone furnishing a home and someone simply trying to learn what an inherited dresser or cabinet is actually worth. In short, Delaquis Antiques is a Ritchot-area antique furniture shop and restoration workshop in one, built around estate-sourced Manitoba pieces that are refinished on-site rather than sold as found.