You are going to reach a varied audience by listing it on CL. Some folks are just looking for a 'cheap' set and think of it as 'old furniture'. There are, however, collectors who frequent the lists too and they'll know what you have and be willing to pay a fair price. The smoking stand is NICE. I think Linda is spot on as to what it would bring at $150. Most people under the age of sixty five would not even know smoking stands exist but I think it would be ashamed to give away a nice one with the humidor for much less than that. The bed? Again.........I have one and I have a modern mattress on mine, but not one of those poofy jobs. My matress just squeezes into the footboard and you practically need a shoehorn to change linens. I gave a 1930s set to my step-daughter because it belonged to her g'mother and I thought she'd consider it special. She could not find a mattress to fit it. It went all the way to Texas, so we didn't send the original mattress with it. You can still find mattresses for them, but it has to be 'just the right' one. The one I have in my bedroom is very like your set, only mine is fancier and carved. It went for $40 at an auction fifteen years ago. You just can't move them here. The armoire is lovely. I'd think it's the most desireable item in the set. Unfortunately, they tend to get carved on and repurposed as entertainment centers. It might bring up to $250 here to the right person. Prolly fetch more like $150 and that is way too low for what it's really worth. The caned items don't move in my area very well. The dresser by itself also would not bring what it's worth......perhaps $150. So, really in this area $400 for the set (without the smoker) is not so out of line. I have absolutely no clue what prices are like on the East Coast or New England. Should be higher than here. Our area is saturated in vintage furniture. Good luck...........I really like the set.

Thanks for the responses! I am having a plant sale/open house starting in ten minutes, so must run (need to make money to pay for tiles! :>), but will try and draw up a picture and color (if I can find where I packed the pencil crayons)to give a better idea of what I'm asking. Guess I'm needing help visualizing the whole room- starting to pick bits and pieces. Was going to go for a white spa look, and somehow ended up ordering the cabinet in hickory! Oh well, it goes extremely well with the laminate flooring in the rest of the basement, if that matters at all! I'm just wondering how to deal with tiling walls and what I do where tile meets vinyl flooring- put up a wood baseboard? I'll have to find some time to look at pics- anyhow- must run-

Storage, storage, and more storage. Think about how you want to use the space, and plan plenty of closets to accommodate all the things required. Otherwise, you will have a job on your hands to keep it from getting junky. So here is more than you wanted to know about what we did: When we did our basement, which also included a long one-car garage along half of one side, we put in a u-shaped light shop space (no power tools except drills and the like) at the end with a deep sink in the center of the U, one side dedicated to plant care and flower arranging, peg board (painted white) lining the walls up to 6'8", and a deep shelf on ordinary white hardware store brackets above that. I recycled two L-shaped wooden countertops that were cast-offs from another project, stained them, and finished them with spar varnish. I designed the supporting structure (painted dark gray) to accommodate three mobile storage basket units that I already had. I painted the wall over the sink (no pegboard there) with chalkboard paint, which was great for jotting down measurements and things to go on the shopping list. We used plain old rectangular florescent tube fixtures in the ceiling, which gave exactly the kind of clean light we needed, and a couple of boxes of peel and stick vinyl tiles on the concrete floor. The short wall of the house which had the garage door and the entry door from the driveway was our foul-weather entrance, and had a fireplace in it, so I allocated half that space to a warm sitting area, and put a trestle table to serve as a desk behind the small sofa that faced the fireplace. I dealt with the high little windows along the long wall (with a lovely view of the bottoms of the boxwoods along the front of the house) like this: Behind that area, I created a hallway to the back space by building a cedar closet on one side, which ran under the staircase, and a long deep closet with three doors in the wall and deep shelves lining the whole thing on the other. Where the cedar closet ended, under the low part of the stairs, I built in a niche for a long 2-drawer lateral file cabinet. We had the stairs rebuilt to create a 3 x 3 landing at the 3rd stair up, so we could turn the bottom stairs to face into that hall, and create an easier and more attractive entry to upstairs. Beyond that hallway was enough space for a pantry closet and a wine closet along the short wall, and a chest of drawers perpendicular to that. Beyond the stairway was the door to a new laundry room and a walled-off area for the HVAC and hot water tank (with louvered doors), and between the laundry room and the back wall of the garage workspace, we put in a big bathroom with changing space for anyone using the pool, or coming in from the garden all covered with muck. We did the bathroom very economically - the things we spent any money on were a Venetian marble shower stall and long countertop with an integral sink. Instead of a vanity, we mirrored the wall and attached a simple framework with a stained birch plywood fascia along the wall to support the countertop, built a 10" high plinth along the floor under it, and put big baskets of towels and washing and sun supplies on it. Then we ran a 2x10 along the wall opposite the shower with many hooks for damp towels and bathing suits, and added a simple garden bench. I loved it. It made my too-big house completely manageable.

This is pretty much what the builder had as their finished basement. They had a closet in the room at the right of the plan and where I have a bar they had another closet. My concern about this plan is that it may make the space feel small and that I won’t have enough space for the second tv area.