Gilley’s Antique Mall

Growing up in Plainfield, I thought Gilley’s was just a «normal» antique mall. After venturing out into the world a bit, I can report that Gilley’s is not just average, Gilley’s is amazing.
Gilley’s is huge, with a great selection of both antiques, vintage, & decorating items. You could literally spend almost a whole day, aimlessly roaming up & down the aisles at Gilley’s. If you are going to visit, you want to set aside a minimum of an hour, and know that you still might not see everything. We typically find 1 – 2 items each time we go, & could easily snag more. Know that the majority of the items are sold in the «booth» set-​up, where booth operators come in once a week or so to arrange/​maintain their displays. Therefore, there’s not a lot of negotiation on price or anything here. The booth owners are typically not on-​site, and you can’t haggle. This isn’t a flea market. With that understanding, for the most part the booth owners set really fair prices on most items, and there are some serious deals to be found here. A trip to Gilley’s is a great «rainy day» activity, when you want to get some steps in inside. Even if you don’t find anything you want, it’s a great trip through time.

What a great gem :). This place is huge! It took me easily an hour to walk through all the rooms of furniture. I asked several questions of the employees about the pieces and they contacted the vendors in a timely manner to answer them for me. I bought two beautiful vintage solid cherry nightstands for my guest room that I love!!! $ 260 total for both pieces! I saw the same nightstand on ebay listed for $ 495 just for one. The quality surpasses many new pieces you would see in the 400 – 500 range. I was highly impressed. If it were closer to me I would go more often but it was definitely worth the 10mi drive to go there. Go when you have time to take it all in b/​c holy smokes it’s a huge store! Your patience/​time will undoubtedly pay off with something good though.

I’ve been coming to Gilley’s since I moved to Avon two years ago, and unlike some previous reviewers, I’ve never had a bad experience here.
Gilley’s is a huge antique mall just west of downtown Plainfield. It’s a great place to find just about anything for a reasonable price. I’ve purchased several pieces of furniture from Gilley’s, all for a much better deal than some other fun antique malls (Midland Antiques, I’m looking at you).
On the one occasion I did ask them to come down on price (a mid-​century modern bedroom suite), they had no problem immediately calling the vendor and speaking with her. I’ve also purchased pieces priced well below what they were going for on eBay, which is always exciting (though probably rare).
So excited that you grabbed ten fragile items and you’re trying to figure out how to properly juggle them in your tiny, T-​Rex arms? Have no fear! A Gilley’s employee is probably just around the corner to take your items off your hands and set them up front for you in a designated bin.
It’s even a fun place if you’ve got nothing to do on a Saturday and don’t feel like spending any money. I’ll continue to browse and furnish my little home with goods from Gilley’s!

This is a decent antique mall. I like to browse this mall every now and then. I usually find something to buy almost every time I visit. I like that they’ve expanded their mall, it gives you more things to look at. They have a lot of interesting things here.

We went to Gilley’s for an afternoon fun. We found couple of items and decided on one item. 6 cups and a coffee mug tree. We just wanted the cups and not the tree. Eventually, we started to venture more around the mall and all of the sudden we were being rushed out the mall. They were closing and they were announcing we will be closing every five minutes. Who does that? So we decided to go up and pay. We were greeted by a gentleman name Jeff. So, we ask if he can call the owner of the booth and ask if we can just buy the cups and not the tree. No we will not do that, so we said obviously he doesn’t want to. He got snappy with us and ask if we wanted the items or not. We said, we are not arguing with you about it. So he said, if we call the owners, we will be doing that all day. We are not about to do that. This is the only antique shop I have been to that does not want to barter. Anyways, he proceeded to be rude. So we paid for our items and he packaged them up and handed it to us and said here you go. No thank you, no have a nice day. Dude, you need to go and learn CUSTOMER SERVICE. This is the second time we have been treated badly by the employees at this establishment. We will not be coming back and I encourage others not to do so as well.

Gilley’s is a popular antique mall just a couple minutes west of Plainfield. The mall is row after row of vendors selling practically anything you could want. Several vendors carry vintage clothes, knives, vintage home décor, glassware, comic books, military items, clocks, watches and most of the popular collectables. A few vendor spaces have been tossed by customers and not as organized as you’d like but still if you are a real shopper it doesn’t stop you. Many rows of well lite glass cases to browse and you can grab a customer number as you enter or wait till you find something. Staff walk around an answer questions, take your items to the front counter and open cases if you want to see something. Friendly staff and will help you find what you’re looking for or at least where it might be. If you need to return to pick up an item purchased, they have a holding area for sold items.