Around Town: The Red Collection Consignment Shop - Greensboro

I love exploring new (to me) consignment and thrift stores in my new area. I'm a HUGE fan of salvaging the past into something new for today. Savvy shopping for secondhand style finds is also a great way to curate quality pieces for a home, but without spending an arm and a leg for the craftsmanship, and sometimes history. One of the consignment stores I've visited here in the Triad area of North Carolina is called The Red Collection. I've found a lot of great bones and lovely pieces at both of their shops, located in Greensboro. Sometimes, it's good to leave the finish as is, and just clean it up a bit, and sometimes, a fresh coat of paint + new upholstery can breath new life into a very traditional piece to update it for today. Here's a peek at some of the finds I've spotted at The Red Collection...

 

Love the design of the doors on this china hutch...

 

Loved these doors too...

 

Petite étager ... 

 

Great hardware - a pair of Century end tables...

 

Great storage piece for a kids room or guest room...

 Good bones and beautiful hardware - vintage Broyhill chest of drawers...

 Both high ($565) and low ($18.95) busts...

Even HPMKT showroom finds like Gabby are being consigned... I've been in quite a few consignment shops, and I have to say, their pricing system makes it easy to know when the next markdown will be, but you may not want to chance letting that find get away.

 

Baker coffee table in brass & glass...

 

Great Federal style mirror...

 

Side table heaven!

 Hello Greek Key!

 Perfect for a transitional style dining room: Sheraton Style sideboard...

 Lovely bench for an entryway - I'd leave the black & gold and re-upholster (probably with dalmatian dots!)

 

GORGEOUS NAVY velvet sofa...

 

Chair heaven!!

 

Great shield-back chair - perfect for a writing desk or dressing room - just needs to be re-upholstered...

 

COTY 2015 - Marsala - Flamestitch Chevron Wingbacks...

 

 And for the coastal collector - a fantastic over-sized and shell filled glass top coffee table (I'd probably paint heirloom white or grey).

 

The Red Collection is open

Monday - Saturday - 10AM - 5:30PM

at

1201 South Holden Road

Greensboro, NC

336-632-0091

 and

1411 Mill Street

Greensboro, NC

336-279-8519

Delivery available.

And since it's a consignment shop, you can also bring in some of your old (but still good condition) home furnishings to sell, and put those funds towards something new (to you). Read more about how their consignment system works at: theredcollection.com

I've enjoyed 'hunting' here, and have even scored a few new pieces for #HarmonHouse. Can't wait to head back and discover new treasures!

Thanks for stopping by!

GET HOLIDAY HOMEGOODS HAPPY WITH THESE FINDS!

Never-mind the holidays are coming - THEY'RE HERE! And it's time to decorate and be guest ready for family stay-overs plus get-togethers with friends. If you haven't started any holiday decorating, or you're looking to inject some newness into your traditional decor, HomeGoods can help - Savvy shoppers know: this is source for stylish finds without busting the budget - especially at this time of the year for decorating, entertaining, and gift-giving. From paisley to pinecones, red to get you ready and a refreshing mix of silver and gold - that's new not old, visit the Holiday Decor shop at HomeGoods. I went last weekend to the Chandler and Gilbert locations here in Arizona, and was blown away by the abundance of on-trend assortments... These are some of the finds I saw...

 

Love the lodge look? You can get it - from red flocked finds to pretty plaids...

 

Plenty of holiday decor to fit any style home...

 

... Pretty peppermint palette... with vintage-like-transferware to ticking stripes...

 

... for entertaining and gifting - tons of extra seating and silver serve + barware to be the hostess with the mostess...

 

... I even spotted some traditional design finds like these paisley prints and over-sized pinecones... 

 

... champagne gold finishes pair beautifully with fifty shades of silver and grey...

For ideas on decorating, entertaing and gifting this holiday season, be sure to join Andrea @SavvySassyMoms and Nicole @MomTrends who are hosting some Pinterest fun -- and giving away a $100 TJMaxx / Marshalls / HomeGoods Gift card!!  Every two weeks they select a theme inspired by a letter of the alphabet and invite friends and followers to join the #PinAtoZ extravaganza! Read more and enter at Deck The Halls With Pinterest .

Speaking of Pinterest...

 

 The HomeGoods - Happy By Design pinning goes on!

Visit, like, and follow the Happy By Design collaborative pinboard hosted by HomeGoods on Pinterest - I'm HomeGoods Happy to be a part of the 10 interior design professionals from across the country sharing how we use HomeGoods finds in our designs! Follow the Happy By Design board to see all of our inspiring pins plus get tips on how you can get the same look for your home!

Now - Go get your shop on and get HomeGoods Happy! 

(I did - just a little - will share shortly!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Note: This post is sponsored by HomeGoods and the Happy By Design project. All thoughts and opinions are of my own.

HAPPY BY DESIGN - MY COLLABORATION WITH HOMEGOODS

I'm super excited! Today kicks off a fun collaboration with 10 interior designers for a Happy By Design - designer program hosted by -- HomeGoods! Yes - I love to go thrifting, but when I want to mix in some newness into our home or stay stylish on a moderate budget for a clients space - HomeGoods is my go to source! When Jessica from HomeGoods had sent out the invitation earlier this July, one of the tasks we all had to do was to take the StyleScope Quiz on the HomeGoods site (you can too! I'm "Set Sail with a touch of Traveler"). We also had to answer some survey questions about our finds from HomeGoods and for me, it brought back a flood of (happy) memories. 

 Quick Decor Trick:

Give a dark chair a splash of color: Use a table-runner for banding.

I know it may sound strange that some purchases at a store can cause good memory flashbacks - but it did. For instance, my first apartment (an awesome 1940's building in Bay Harbor) had wood floors throughout plus an open living / dining space plan. Nearby where I worked at the time was the first HomeGoods I had ever been into (back in the 90's!). One of my first HomeGoods purchases (of MANY more to come - little did I know) I made during my first visit. I remember it like it was yesterday: I spotted an awesome metal & glass étagère, located a flatbed, hauled it up to the front of the store, loaded into my car and brought it back to my apartment...

From that moment on, I was HomeGoods hooked!! 

That étagère has been with me now since my apartment, then moved with me into Jeff's condo when we lived together, moved to our first home we bought together in Pembroke Pines, it moved outside when we built our patio and now -- it has traveled across the country and is taking a beating outside in the hot Arizona sun - but still looks as beautiful as ever. I watched it become the naturally rustic piece it is today...

  Create a cozy outdoor living space with an étagère.

The étagère - a fantastic way to add a vertical element to a space - inside or out - without carrying the weight of a built-in bookcase. Great for holding books, collections of jewelry boxes inside or plants and candles outside on the patio.

Besides that étagère, I can remember doing back-flips when I spotted a Barcelona chair at the HomeGoods in Pembroke Pines - It was on a sunny Sunday morning and I put the chair on hold. Jeff was at work but came back to the store with me later that day to check it out. When we went back to the store, I noticed a button was missing off the cushion and I freaked. The Store Manager noticed I was upset and took off (brace yourself) $100 from the ticketed price (now THAT IS customer service!) so I got the chair for only $250 (and the button was easy to fix!). Don't shoot me - it's not a real Barcelona - but it still makes me happy... and it has also become Sephora's happy place too...

The Barcelona chair from HomeGoods  - Pembroke Pines - Florida

Besides these little style stories of my personal experiences with being HomeGoods Happy, I'll be sharing my HomeGoods finds I've used in a few client makeovers (from Florida to Arizona), along with the 10 other designers. 

You'll be able to browse, learn, share, tweet and pin your favorite room designs shared by the 10 designers for the HG designer program on the Happy By Design board. The board is launching today on Pinterest and will also be featured on the HomeGoods website next week! We'll all be pinning 2-3 of our project images each week for the month of August - sharing our decor tips plus our HomeGoods finds we've used in client projects and our own home - along with sharing why that one special piece (or three!) make a room (or even a tablescape) do the happy dance!

Check out the HomeGoods blog - Happy Design and follow the board on Pinterest at Happy By Design

I made a separate board of my favorite HomeGoods finds (not officially affiliated with this program) - from my style spotting in HomeGoods stores to projects I've designed using their fab finds you can also follow at: Homegoods Happy 

I'm truly thrilled to be a part of such a wonderful group of designers and I'm looking forward to learning some new tips from their fresh perspectives! Be sure to stop by each of the design blogs to get more in depth details about their shared design projects. 

The designers are:

Adi Edlen of

The Garden of Edlen

Amy Chalmers of

Maison Decor

 

Bryn Dunn of

Bryn Alexandra Interiors

Camila Pavone of

Effortless Style

Denise Sabia of

The Painted Home

Erika Ward of

BluLabelBungalow

Hooper Patterson of

Birds of a Feather Design

Lynda Quintero-Davids
  Focal Point Styling

Sherry Hart of

Design Indulgence

Tamara Stephason of 

Nest by Tamara

Thank you for stopping by!

 

Note: This post is sponsored by HomeGoods and the Happy By Design project. All thoughts and opinions are of my own.

 

Shopping Around: Local Love & Fab Finds at Potato Barn

Over the weekend, I headed out for two days of sourcing finds at thrift shops, discount home stores and local shops for the office makeover. I already had done some online searching for prices, but even some places who had a lower price, would have a $55 shipping charge which to me is just throwing money away. That $55 could be used to buy a lamp. The main item I was looking for was a pair of dining room chairs - preferably with oval backs. Traditional in their style, you'd think that might be easy to find at a thrift store, and also a popular trend you'd think stores like Homegoods or even Ross would carry -- but no. I did spot a pair in TJMaxx, but they weren't the right finish (white-washed) or fabric (zebra print). I even contacted the owner at Sweet Salvage to see if any of their vendors had oval back chairs, but at this time they didn't. Come Saturday evening, I felt a little discouraged but tried one last local shop called Potato Barn.

Ding-Ding! Jackpot!

The Potato Barn is a family owned and operated home furnishings store in Arizona, established in 2002. Their showrooms (located in Gilbert and Scottsdale) are filled with unique home furnishings, featuring many one of a kind pieces imported from all over the world. The Potato Barn has everything to furnish your entire home, with a large selection of sofas, sectionals, chairs, entertainment centers, dining room tables, buffets, cabinets, dressers, headboards, accent tables and accessories such as lamps, pillows and candle holders. They carry an assortment of a wide variety of styles from olde world and rustic to shabby chic and even a few modern pieces.  Within their eclectic mix, they specialize in heavily distressed finishes and reclaimed woods.

 The least expense oval back dining chairs online are at Home Decorators (also linked to Home Depot + Amazon). They sell at $169 each PLUS $55 to ship and do not come in grey. A last resort is Target where they have a pair for $199 and free ship, but again, not available in grey. These local finds have more character. And the added bonus of a Parisian feel, which I discovered is my clients favorite place.

Since moving here, I had only gone into the store one other time, and thought they might be too rustic for what I was looking for -- but I actually spotted the mother load of oval back chairs, in a variety of finishes AND on sale! I may need to "tweak" the styling of my project just a little bit, but that's where being flexible in designing a space comes into play. When you find the style & price you're searching for, you think "how can I make this work in the space?"  

 

Chairs by Steven Shell.

Originally, I was thinking the chair frame would be black and the fabric in print. The chairs I found are more solid - with only a slight herringbone print and the wood finish comes natural, distressed black or a milky white with grey finish - which I am actually leaning more towards. Considering the chairs I found online were priced at $449 each (high), $600 for a pair (medium) and $169 each (low) PLUS shipping & tax - these local finds are only $95 to $125 each and no shipping expense. The two options to look into to 'tweak' their look is either to have them re-upholstered (which since their new I'd rather not do) OR just have nail trim added to them (which I think that's where I'm headed).

 

So comfortable and the crushed velvet texture 

can work well to layer the greys in the space.

The store also had a really good selection of that one special chair for the doctor to use during a counseling session. At first, we were going to keep her existing chair - just update the finish and re-upholster it, but then I found a new chair at Pier 1 in a cool print (center pic below). I snapped a picture of it to share (she liked it) and suggested she go give it a comfort test since it was nearby. I gave it a comfort test on Saturday, but to me it felt too firm. While at the Potato Barn, I found some other options - much more comfortable, styles that would work with the space, and one chair in particular that was lower priced (AND more comfortable) than the Pier 1 chair.

ABOVE: Chairs at Pier One

BELOW: Chairs at Potato Barn

Love the more traditional & tailored looks!

The Potato Barn showrooms are only open Wednesday thru Saturday from 10-6. Considering I popped in there at 5:30 Saturday, that's a good thing. It means the chairs will still be in the store Wednesday for me to meet my client there: she can give the chairs a comfort test and we can make the final selections for her office makeover.

P O T A T O  B A R N - G I L B E R T

4900 S. Power Road

(on the NW corner of Power & Ray - just off the 202)

480-279-5500

P O T A T O  B A R N - S C O T T S D A L E
9190 E. Indian Bend Rd, Scottsdale 85250

(off the 101 freeway & Indian Bend Rd. in The Pavilions)

480-745-3240

 Tip when shopping here: Bring your tape-measure, snap pictures and bring other room samples with you because unlike specialty chain stores, you can't do returns.

Other finds spotted while at Potato Barn - Gilbert, AZ...

 

 

 

 

 

(I literally laughed out loud in the store when I saw this!)

While out and about I saw so many wonderful finds - from new items at Ikea to Spring assortments at Homegoods,, a new store that opened here called DownEast Home, thrift finds at Goodwill and another (new to me) thrift shop I found nearby... plus a few other local stores I pulled into to check out. I want to share them all, but doing one post would be too long.  So this week (may need to be this month!) I want to do a series of posts focused on "Shopping Around". It's easy to have an unlimited expense account or larger budget to work with, but trying to pull together a comfortable + stylish space on a budget ($5000 or under) can be challenging -- but it CAN be done, if you know where to shop, what to look for or just hire me to do it FOR you!

Thanks for stopping by!