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Your home is finally exactly how you want it. Each room is furnished with vintage finds you have carefully selected over many years that cleverly express your unique style. It hasn't been easy, especially when your cat decided to dig to China through the 1960 Swiss shag rug made from New Zealand wool, or when the movers reduced the 18th century corner table into kindling right before your very eyes, and even after your boyfriend moved in with all of his tools and his fourteen-year-old dog. FULL STORY... Vintage Holiday Decorating FULL STORY...
Overall, the time-saving implements that help us put on a feast at Thanksgiving - or any other day, for that matter - have been welcome and useful. If you'd rather buy ground nutmeg or whipped cream in a can, who can blame you? The holidays can be an especially stressful time if you're in charge of putting together a plentiful spread for hungry guests, but if you're looking to bring some vintage elements to your meal beyond the linens and dishes, consider these old-fashioned approaches. FULL STORY...
Each year, I make at least one journey back to the Midwest to visit my family. Their farmland has been in the family for generations, and the old farmhouse, now occupied by my uncle, has stood there for over 150 years. Whenever I go back, my grandmother, knowing my insatiable interest in old family things, gives me a suitcase full of aprons, jewelry, photographs, kitchen utensils, or dishes, which, over the years, have accumulated in boxes or drawers to be treasured but not routinely enjoyed. This fall, before I go back home, I wanted to honor some of these collections by getting them out of their drawers and into the spotlight. FULL STORY...
Las Vegas has undergone quite a few transformations since the 1950s and with each change came a complete remodel or implosion. By the 1980s the swagger of the Rat Pack had slowed to a hobble, gasping for the very oxygen once pumped directly into the casinos. Hanging onto the old image was crippling Las Vegas as a tourist destination, so it was destroyed, literally and figuratively-kaboom! FULL STORY...
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Bird houses are a common collectible, easily found in as many colorful varieties as there are bird species. FULL STORY...
I like the wooden-crate-as bookshelf aesthetic. I hear the idea is now passe, but any chance I get to use old wooden things, I'll take it. So I've been particularly delighted to be seeing so many wooden boxes at flea markets lately - small, large, open, hinged, whatever - along with things like rope and tools with lots of potential. FULL STORY...
One way to add a retro flavor to your antique shop is to dress up old mannequins and position them in key spots inside or out. Mannequins in either the table top style or the full length floor model are great attention grabbers, drawing people into a shop, into a particular section or display or as a wonderful conversation piece. FULL STORY...
I love spring. I love opening the windows and letting the first warm air in after months of the dry, stale heater. I love the berries coming in season at the farmer's market, and I especially love spring cleaning. Taking the time to clean out closets and drawers is nonnegotiable for me in the spring, and it affords an opportunity to purge all that unnecessary stuff and find creative ways to store and shelve the essentials. FULL STORY... |
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