The daffodils are coming up! Aah-mazing! Even though it’s been a mild winter, we are so ready to welcome spring and can’t wait for the return of the robins, the buds making an appearance on the trees, and the waves of spring flowers nodding in the warming breeze. The coming of spring puts us in …
Must See Bears, Birds, Trout and Deer We connected with a treasure trove of Adirondack hunting and fishing decor recently and grouped the first dozen vintage cabin decor items into a collection featured on our home page this month at vintageadirondack.com. Our source is a collector who has been buying the best of vintage sporting life and …
It seems gallery walls are everywhere these days, from HGTV to Houzz, Apartment Therapy to Pinterest. We absolutely love the look, but know it can be a rather daunting project, from gathering the right components to framing, placement and spacing. We recently created a gallery wall display using some of the fabulous vintage rustic pictures, signs, …
How odd it is that on February 1 the grass is green, the sun is shining and the temperature is 40 – 50 degrees here in the Northeast. As I walked the dogs this morning I heard the twitter of a flock of tiny birds in the hedge, the sound of waves rolling in to the …
Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season! Ours couldn’t have been better, with our kids home from far-flung places and lots of family time. But it was a hectic time too. We were so busy creating our rustic Christmas collection at vintageadirondack.com (remaining selections on sale here: https://vintageadirondack.com/product-category/christmas) starting right after Thanksgiving …
Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Celebrate the Beauty of Nature this Holiday We’re not hosting Thanksgiving this year – a very unusual circumstance that we are enjoying immensely. Normally this week we would be planning the menu, buying the provisions, organizing party rentals and of course, COOKING. Since we’re not doing all those things, it gave …
Keep it real! If there’s one thing that makes us cringe its the tacky “rustic” decor we see all over the Internet. You know what we’re talking about, plastic looking resin bears, faux wood logs, animal shaped lamps and hideous fake quilts sporting all manner of wild life. Take a look at the photos below …
Fall home style landscapes teeming with creatures great and small are sweeping into interiors and featuring strongly in design collections this season. And we couldn’t be happier! Soft, tranquil natural looks, capturing autumn and its color palette and enhanced by woodland characters creates the warm and cozy look we crave at this time of year. “Combining a sense of …
5 Tips for Cozying Up Your Home for Fall One of the best things about living on a lake is that seasonal changes are so dramatic and lovely. The light has changed over the last few days here in the northeast, tilting toward the welcome cool of autumn, and we’ve swapped our light cotton blankets for …
Buffalo Bill Cody and Chief Sitting Bull Hunting The Wild West Shows for Clues to an Antique Treasure One of the things I enjoy most about this business is doing research to try and discover where a particular antique or vintage item might have come from. We bought this fabulous antique vase with a Native American …