Vintage home finds | No. 33

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Framed needlework textile — $85

Sat on this one for a couple weeks while I debated if I wanted to buy it for myself and didn’t (I need to focus on larger pieces, I have so many middle-sized small-ish ones) so now it’s yours!

Pewter pedestal bowl — $65

I’ll always find a footed bowl more appealing than one without a base (I guess I have pedestal bias?!) and the rim detail makes this one extra enticing. For serving, for flower arranging, for tossing your keys into. Don’t make me tell you why bowls are infinitely useful!

Embroidered linen placemat — $29

I think the naiveté of the design is what I like about this piece (in addition to always being drawing to the graphic simplicity of redwork embroidery). It has just a bit of wobbly misshapenness that looks like a sweet illustration. I’d be inclined to use this under a vase on my dining table to anchor the arrangement in lieu of a tray or platter.

Swirly ceramic mug — $35

Groovy concentric waves on a sweetly sized and somewhat ladylike shape? Into it.

Papier mache pedestal bowl — $28

The pattern of those speckle-y, munched up little bits in the center is very pleasing to me.

Tall and narrow original impressionist painting — $75

Do you have a sliver of a space that might suit this uniquely-sized piece? Striking because of the proportions alone, not to mention the areas of good icky green and bruised lilac.

Swan-shaped toast (or phone!) holder — $78

Two things converged to make this piece catch my eye this week. One: a new favorite newsletter, Olly Rowe’s weekly dispatch on hosting, posted about asking friends to stash their phone in bright blue cash box as “phone jail” while they were dining at his home and two: I saw a reel of someone using a toast holder for this same purpose. A charming bit of old-timey frippery repurposed to keep guests in the present moment — though they might be tempted to take their phone out to document the novelty and your cleverness.

Stainless steel trinket box — $175

By prolific outsider artist Stanley Szwarc. I would tuck my most special jewelry pieces in here.

Bulgarian swirly compote dish — $51

Yes, another dish on a pedestal! And I’m sorry but one more:

Mexican floral cake stand — $68

Etched floral plate — $58

Filing under “things you can hang on the wall as art that aren’t framed 2D pieces”.

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Last week, paid subscribers got a big affordable lamp round up last week and the full list of all the secondhand summer clothes I’m into under $50 (free subscribers still get half the list). I’m having a Depop renaissance — the feed is giving me all sorts of cool and well-priced treasures that Poshmark only dreams it could serve up.

In home project news, I am making progress on our entryway. Which means I have finally committed to enlisting a contractor to make STRUCTURAL changes (closing in the opening a bit more, adding in a transom).

I spent two hours in Lowe’s selecting trim for the three openings that he’s going to be casing in for me yes that was a LONG TIME TO SPEND DOING THAT TASK. Trying to find a combination that would feel simpatico with the rest of the door trim in the house but also be bit beefier in proportion to the size of the openings was a time-consuming puzzle. While I tried to formulate some heretofore undiscovered and brilliant combination of in-stock moldings, in the end I decided to simply buy pieces that would replicate my original inspiration image as closely as possible:

If there was one thing I could remove from my personality it would be compulsion to approach everything I make and do like it has to be the most original and special thing on this earth. A nearly impossible ask and a great way to waste a lot of time before circling back to references that have already been done and done well!

I’m working on a post documenting all the iterating I have done in this entryway space. I thought writing it out would be an exercise in relatability (trying things and tweaking is a necessary part of any interior design hobbyist’s process!) but is mostly making me feel a bit silly for not just doing the thing I wanted to do since moving into the house (close in the openings).

Ah well, LIVING AND LEARNING.

<3,
Delaney

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