This week’s featured shop Vintage Archeology is owned by Karen. https://www.etsy.com/shop/vintagearcheology
Please tell us a little about you and your shop.
As a child, searching through barns, shops, and country auctions of Pennsylvania with my parents was a weekend task that I grew to love. I can still see the barns loaded to the rafters with furniture, and see my father refinishing the tables, chairs, and chests that were toted home.
Loving to decorate, I have gone through many decor phases including primitive, shabby chic, and country French only to find that I wasn’t really happy with any of them. I was soon having another huge garage sale emptying out the old to make room for the new.
What I have come to love is an eclectic décor. Unique pieces from different styles and eras, combined because of their shape, color, texture, or playfulness, spruce up a room.
Vintage Archeology affords me the opportunity to offer unique pieces that appeal to lovers of eclectic. I have great fun in searching for those special finds.
Not knowing what you are looking for, but you’ll know it when you see it, explains my approach to vintage.
Just like the old barns of Pennsylvania, you never know what you will find as your peruse my shop.
What is your favorite era and why?
Unique, playful vintage is not found in only one era or design. Currently my shop has a mid-Victorian coffin plate, a wall biology chart from 1937, and a first edition book from 1968 to name a few.
What is your favorite item in your shop and why?
I am enjoying this group of old pressure gauges resting in a wooden mold. It’s a fun assemblage of vintage industrial that adds uniqueness to a space. The texture of the wood combined with the varied gauge surfaces and faces shake things up a bit.
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Great shop! Fun to read more about you!