yep, she's reliant on my grandfather driving her to the furniture stores, but often on the Facebook groups you can find people willing to drop the furniture off to you for an extra tenner. with regards to porcelain and glass, we recently had to sort out a lot of my great uncles crystalware...
my grandmother is really into this. she uses a lot of local Facebook groups where people list old furniture for other to upcycle mostly. she also spends a lot of time in France, where she visits the dépôt-ventes, old warehouses full of second hand antique stuff, not sure what the equivalent in...