Living with Vintage Furniture
When my husband and I moved in together, we had little furniture, and needed to decorate our Murray Hill apartment from scratch. We both love mid-century modern style, so we turned to eBay and the Chelsea Flea Market.
After four years of collecting, we have some beautiful stuff: a long, teak, room-dividing credenza that holds tons of stuff, a Haywood Wakefield coffee table, and the little mod writing desk that holds my Mac. But we also made some mistakes. The result is a place that looks too much like a museum to moderne and not enough like a home. So here are some living-with-vintage furniture tips that I learned the hard way.