Tag: Vintage | Apartment Therapy

Styling and Salvage: Furniture by Rupert Blanchard

We've seen a lot of furniture made from salvaged materials and while we're nowhere near tired of it, London-based Rupert Blanchard's handmade pieces certainly stand out from the crowd. ...

Etsy Find: Vintage Organizing Solutions

A big part of getting ready for the holidays is getting ourselves cleaned up and organized now so that the holiday chaos won't feel so overwhelming. After browsing some uninspiring small storage off...

Bella's DIY & Vintage on a Budget
House Call

Name: Bella Location: Prospect Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts I fell in love with this apartment as soon as I saw it a little over three years ago. It's located high on a hill that...

Casual Vintage Displays at London's Sunday Markets

Some of our favorite displays are the ones that toe the line between being too messy and too perfectly arranged. A couple of months ago while wandering through London’s Columbia Road and Brick Lan...

Tips for Restoring Vintage Fan?
Good Question

Q: Looking to spruce up our office desk with some dual purpose antiques, I recently scored a deal on a lovely Bersted Mfg. "Eskimo" fan on Ebay for a song. It's cute and fully functional but is clearl...

John Derian's 1789 Provincetown House
Martha Stewart Living

In the September issue of Martha Stewart Living, the entertaining feature takes us to the Provincetown retreat of New York store owner and expert in all that is découpage John Derian. Built i...

Abodeon: Current & Vintage Modern
New Website!

This Cambridge institution was covered way back during our Boston blogger tryouts but they just launched a great store website so we thought it was time for a re-post. A delightfully eclectic mix of...

Good Question: Source for Vintage Earthenware?

I'm looking for some vintage pottery in the Boston area and having a hard time finding what I'm looking for. I want an earthenware/stoneware pitcher or even brightly colored fiestware. Any leads on ...

Graphic Numbers: Vintage Service Station Numbers

Last fall, the discussion about the Huge Number Five (from a house in our home town!) made us smile. Big, bold, graphic letters and numbers have us at hello. The cheerful vintage metal numbers pictu...

Reside: Mid-Century Central in Cambridge

When we first learned about Reside several years ago we had visions of a sparse, gallery-like showroom of highly curated mid-century modern antiques and, honestly, we were a little intimidated. Even...

Cambridge Antique Market

Large antique collectives with dozens of dealers in one place are nearly extinct. Fortunately Boston is still home to two: The Cambridge Antique Market (CAM) and the Massachusetts Antique Cooperati...

Old Phone Works: Colorful Refurbished Phones
Boston

Despite the current emphasis on living and buying green, when it comes down to it, we live in a throw-away society. Most massed produced items are manufactured to have intentionally short life spa...