This is from DC finalist, Caroline. Comment away!
The Hunted House is a great furniture store on the 14th St NW strip. Located on the second floor of an old townhouse, the store is arranged in mini tableaus of mid-century modern furniture. The small staged rooms really help display some great pieces of furniture. It almost feels like you are in someone’s living room – a very hip person’s living room...
The pieces here are unique conversation items that can become the center of any room re-design. You wouldn't want to furnish your whole house with this stuff, but it's a nice way to break up the post-college Ikea with some mid-century modern. This is really fun and funky store complete with small items, like vintage paintings and bud vases that can inspire decor but won't require a payment plan! >> www.huntedhousedc.com
- Caroline
(Thanks, Caroline!)
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1830 1/2 14th St NW
Washington
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DC
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202.549.7493
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| Website: | www.huntedhousedc.com |
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Thanks Caroline - looks like a great place - I definitely want to check it out!
view paulhogblog's profile
Hey, does anyone have an opinion on the shades on those ceramic-and-wooden-neck table lamps shown in a few of these pictures? Should they really be riding that high on the lamps? I have a similar pair, and while my shades are equally massive and brown, they don't expose the entire wooden neck the way these seem too.
view buyersremorse's profile
I love the color of the wall in first picture.
Can anyone tell me what color that is? Or something similar?
view kokoyakyu's profile
I'm getting a bit tired of all the posts about stores in the 14th St/U Street area. I love that neighborhood and many of its stores, but we've seen at least 4 posts about a 4-block neighborhood from DC finalists already--aren't there other things to write about in the DC area?
As I recall, though, Caroline is the one who wrote about Community Forklift, which was a really unique resource that I didn't know about, so I am glad she's covering a broad range of topics.
view Jenny in DC's profile
I agree with Jenny in DC, though I assume that all the posts had the same deadline and so no one knew what stores would be covered by other writers. Still, there are interesting stores and resources in other neighborhoods in the city (and suburbs)- I hope once the auditions are over, we'll see a wider selection of offerings.
view mcq's profile
The store looks interesting, but I wish the piece itself were longer and revealed a bit about the history or the owner. There must be a story behind the name at least...
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If you go to the store's website, http://www.huntedhousedc.com, the story of how the store came to be is there under "About Us".. Seems like the owner(s) started it as a home-based biz selling on Craigslist and, as it grew, they moved it to Eastern Market and from there opened up the shop on 14th Street. That sounds pretty cool! I have visited and I must say I find that what they have is pretty much different from the other stores that do vintage.
They seem to go for really cool pieces that really stand out and at that, they don't charge a lot for `em. I do the 14th Street thing pretty much every week and I always hit up Hunted House because it's often resulted in a "hot" find. Start by checking out what's on the street in front of the shop.
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