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Bunny's Attic Antique Mall
Two floors, 40 vendors, and the biggest antique selection between Nashville and the Kentucky line.
Two floors, 40 vendors, and the biggest antique selection between Nashville and the Kentucky line.
Bunny's Attic is the reason antique-hunters drive up from Nashville. Two full floors of a restored square-side building house about 40 individual dealer booths, each with its own style — one booth is nothing but 1940s kitchenware, another is Civil War letters and buttons, a third is mid-century furniture in genuinely nice condition. It is well-lit, well-priced (Robertson County prices, not East Nashville prices) and the staff will hold things at the counter while you wander. The building itself is part of the appeal: a deep, narrow brick storefront of the kind Springfield's square is built from, with the original high ceiling and a wooden stair running up the middle. Every booth carries a dealer number, every tag repeats it, and every sale goes through one register at the front. If furniture is what you came for, walk straight up the stair first and work down — the big pieces move fastest.
Plan on an hour minimum, two if you're a serious shopper. There's a small coffee counter on the ground floor and benches on each landing. Pricing is set by individual dealers — some negotiate, some don't; the counter can text a dealer for a lower offer on higher-priced items. Ask. The second floor has the best furniture and the primitives; the ground floor is stronger for smalls, jewellery and books. Aisles on the ground floor are wide enough for two people to pass; upstairs they narrow between wardrobes and dressers, so leave the backpack at the counter rather than swinging it into a booth of pressed glass. Restrooms are on the ground floor at the back. The practical way to shop it is one slow lap with nothing in your hands, a second lap collecting, then one decision at the counter — not four trips up and down the stair.
Weekday mornings are the quietest. Saturday afternoon is the busiest and has the highest turnover of new arrivals. First Friday evenings the store stays open till 8pm as part of the downtown art walk. Combine with Antiques on Main (across the square) for the full antiquing loop. Bring a measuring tape if you're looking at furniture — Bunny's will hold items for 48 hours with a deposit. Bring a moving blanket and a length of rope too if there is any chance you are buying a table; there is no delivery service and no loading dock, just the front door and the kerb on the square. Small bills help: a dealer texted about a $45 lamp will nearly always come down further for cash than for card. Photograph the booth number of anything you are undecided about, because you will not find it again on the second lap.
Getting here is a drive, and you should plan it as one. From downtown Nashville the direct run is US-431 north — Whites Creek Pike, then Springfield Highway — about 30 miles and 45 to 55 minutes depending on the lights through Joelton. The faster version in traffic is I-24 west to exit 24 at Pleasant View, then TN-49 east for roughly 12 miles, about 20 minutes of two-lane. Coming from the I-65 corridor, leave at exit 108 for White House and take TN-76 west about 11 miles. There is no scheduled bus service between Nashville and Springfield, so a car or a rideshare is the only realistic way in. Once you reach the square, park in the free two-hour spaces on the street or in the side-street lots a block back; the courthouse lawn is a two-minute walk from the door.
The cost of a visit is entirely under your control, because browsing costs nothing and there is no membership, no tour and no audio guide to buy. What you actually spend depends on the floor: ground-floor smalls — glassware, tins, ironstone, sewing tools — mostly sit between $5 and $40, books and ephemera run $2 to $15, and costume jewellery cases typically start around $15 and climb past $100 for good signed pieces. Upstairs, chairs and small tables commonly land in the $75 to $250 band, with case pieces and better mid-century furniture higher. Add Robertson County sales tax of roughly 9.75% at the register. Cards are taken at the front counter; cash is your leverage when the counter texts a dealer. A realistic budget for a browsing pair who intend to buy something is $50 to $150.
Time it and the same shop feels like two different places. The 10:00 opening through about 11:30 on a Tuesday or Wednesday is the quiet window — you will have whole rooms to yourself and the counter has time to chase dealers on price. Between noon and 3pm on Saturday it is shoulder-to-shoulder, but that is also when the week's restocking has landed, so serious buyers accept the crowd. Sunday's 13:00-17:00 window is short and some booths look picked over after Saturday; treat it as a browse, not a hunt. Seasonally, September through November is the strongest for stock as estates clear, and Christmas décor appears from late October. January is thin on new arrivals but the best month to negotiate. Holiday closures happen around Thanksgiving and Christmas — phone the day before if you are driving up specially.
It suits collectors, decorators and anyone facing a wet afternoon in Robertson County with two hours to fill. It suits a one-hour gap badly unless you stay on the ground floor, which is genuinely doable in 45 minutes. Families with toddlers should think twice: the aisles are narrow, the shelves are stacked with breakables to knee height, and a stroller will not turn upstairs — carry small children or come without them. Wheelchair users can browse the ground floor from the street-level entrance, but the second floor is reached by stairs only; ask at the counter and staff will photograph an upstairs booth or bring a piece down to look at. Teenagers do better than you'd expect among the vinyl, old cameras, comics and vintage advertising signs. If you need certificates and provenance, this is not that kind of shop.
Fold it into a half-day on the square. Antiques on Main sits across from the courthouse, two minutes on foot, and doing both is the standard Springfield antiquing loop — most visitors give Bunny's the longer half. The Robertson County Courthouse lawn is the obvious place to sit with a coffee, and lunch spots on the square are all within a three-minute walk, which makes a 10:00 start and a 13:00 finish a tidy shape for the day. Ten minutes out by car, J. Travis Price Park and the Springfield Greenway give you somewhere to walk off the driving. Push 12 miles northwest to Adams and you can add the Bell Witch Cave; Port Royal State Historic Park is roughly 20 minutes west. Overnighters have Hampton Inn by Hilton Springfield and Holiday Inn Express & Suites Nashville North Springfield by IHG within a short drive.
The honest caveats. This is a dealer mall, not a curated gallery: quality swings booth to booth, and a handful of dealers price at Nashville levels and simply wait. Nothing is restored for you — check drawer runners, look under veneer, open every lid, and assume the wiring on any lamp needs replacing before you plug it in. A share of the floor is reproduction farmhouse décor rather than antiques, which is fine if that is what you want and irritating if you drove an hour for the real thing. The Civil War letter case is one glass case, genuinely interesting but small; people arrive expecting a museum room and are briefly disappointed. There is no shipping, no delivery and no lift to the second floor. Come with a tape measure, a plan for the tailgate, and a list of what you are actually hunting.
Always free to browse
Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00 · Sun 13:00-17:00
Second-floor furniture rooms — Up the main stair, north side of the second floor
Civil War letter case — Ground floor, booth near the back stair
Mid-century kitchenware booth — Ground floor, southeast corner
Ask the counter to text a dealer if a price seems high — most will negotiate.
First Friday evenings the store stays open late with wine and cheese.
Weekday mornings are the quietest for browsing.
No — entry is completely free. There is no admission, no membership, no ticketed tour and no audio guide upsell inside; the only money that changes hands is at the front counter when you buy something. Expect ground-floor smalls in the $5 to $40 range, books from about $2, and upstairs furniture commonly between $75 and $250, plus Robertson County sales tax of roughly 9.75%. Cards are accepted at the register. The caveat is parking discipline rather than price: the square's free spaces are two-hour limited.
Always. You only pay if you buy. That applies to every hour the doors are open, including the extended First Friday evenings until 8pm during the downtown art walk, when there is wine and cheese at no charge. Nothing inside is gated behind a fee, and staff will hold items at the counter while you keep browsing. If you want a piece held longer, the shop will reserve it for 48 hours against a deposit — that deposit comes off the purchase price, but ask at the counter whether it is refundable before you leave it.
1-2 hours; longer if you're a serious antique shopper. A quick ground-floor pass — smalls, jewellery cases, books — takes about 45 minutes and works if you have a gap before dinner. Doing both floors properly, opening drawers and comparing booths, runs closer to two hours, and dealers who are pricing a market rather than shopping it routinely spend longer. Add 20 minutes if you want Antiques on Main across the square, and another 30 for lunch on the square. Two hours matches the free street parking limit almost exactly.
Open every day. Sunday hours are shorter (1-5pm). Monday to Saturday the doors are open 10:00 to 17:00, and First Friday evenings run late to 8pm. The practical exceptions are the major holidays — Thanksgiving and Christmas in particular — when the square largely shuts; call before making the drive from Nashville in late November or late December. Sunday's four-hour window is also the thinnest for stock, because Saturday's crowd has already worked through the week's new arrivals. Weekday mornings from opening to about 11:30 are the quietest.
No — walk-in only. There is no reservation system, no timed entry and no group booking to arrange; you park, you walk in, you browse. Larger groups are welcome but the upstairs aisles are narrow between furniture, so split up rather than moving as a block. If you are travelling specifically to see a piece you spotted online or on a previous visit, phone ahead and the counter can check whether the dealer still has it — booths turn over weekly and nothing is held without a deposit.
West side of the Springfield square, half a block from the courthouse. Free street parking. There is no bus service to Springfield, so plan on driving: US-431 north from Nashville is about 30 miles and 45 to 55 minutes, I-24 to exit 24 at Pleasant View then TN-49 east is roughly 12 miles of two-lane, and from I-65 exit 108 at White House it is 11 miles west on TN-76. Street spaces on the square are free but capped at two hours; the side-street lots a block back are free and less policed.
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