Living Clutter Free
As our summer travels are winding down, and we continue to work on our Mid Century Fixer Upper, a common theme keeps popping up, how can I make our new home functional for us at this stage in our lives? I started realizing that my ideal living situation would be for everything to have a designated place and to live clutter free. Marie Kondo and other organizational gurus make it look easy, but in our business we are constantly out picking and bringing home fresh finds. After fun days working in the shop or driving around Southern Indiana picking, it is easy to see how our current living space has…
Lavello Sink Reveal for The Cottage
As promised when we shared some of the wonderful renovations for The Cottage, the sink reveal is here! Check out our previous blog post about The Cottage, where we turned this space into a new home for Moon River Spa. The space is working wonderfully for our friend Jenifer Blevins and her business is flourishing. She says her clients love the renovations. We wanted to share the update on the Lavello Sink and how wonderful it looks in the space. We had a great experience with this company and this project was a perfect addition to the farmhouse style in The Cottage. Because the store counter piece was narrow, we…
Pierre Funke Home Estate Sale
We are so excited to announce this Tagged Estate Sale! We have the honor of organizing and liquidating the family home for the Pierre and Funke estate. The Estate Sale is this weekend, Friday June 21 – Sunday June 23, 2019 8am-3pm all three days, on 802 W. Franklin Street in Evansville. This home is filled with antique furniture, local memorabilia, mid-century modern furniture, vintage quilts, and lots of advertising. One of the things we always tell our prospective estates is to leave the estate intact and let us utilize our experience to determine what should be donated or recycled and what we can sell. This home was a perfect…
The New Harmony Antique Show
On June 8th and 9th, we welcome you to the 18th annual New Harmony Antique Show located in picturesque downtown New Harmony, Indiana. This is a one-of-a-kind, indoor and outdoor, exclusive collection of authentic antiques, vintage décor, furniture, and collectibles located directly on Main Street and in the Ribeyre Gymnasium. Just a little backstory on our Firehouse Antiques journey, it was at this event in 2003 that Jeff fell in love with New Harmony and called me excited to buy the town’s 100 year old firehouse so we could live out our dream of owning an antique shop in a small town. After I visited New Harmony with Jeff…
Evansville Estate Sale
Greetings antique lovers! So many have been asking us, “When is your next Estate Sale?” You will love these two sales! Yes, that is what I said, this sale is two houses that belong to a mother and a daughter. They live across the street from each other, so we are selling the contents of two houses on the same dates and times. The estate sale is set for Friday April 12 – Sunday April 14, 2019 8am-3pm for both houses and they are full of the types of estate items you love to find. For those who are new friends, we do estate “tag” sales, everything is tagged or…
Harmony Spring Market
One of my favorite parts of New Harmony, Indiana is the way it blooms in the Spring. Over the last few weeks, the sunshine has brought up the daffodils and the trees are blossoming. People are filling our streets to see our town transform into a spring wonderland. It is the perfect time of year to take a self guided walking tour of our town or come enjoy one of our many events. This Saturday April 6th from 9am to 5pm the town is hosting Harmony Spring Market. This event has all the spring inspiration you need wrapped up in one event. Ribeyre Gym will be full of vintage items,…
An Inside Look At Our Fixer Upper
In our last post, Our Fixer Upper, I blogged all about the outside of our mid-century home on Brewery Street. Now is the second part, a post about some of the work we are doing on the inside. The most important piece of advice I can share is to consult an expert! Professionals know their business and for the interior house remodel I reached out to friends and valued customers. After closing the sale of our barn, now The Barn by Firehouse Antiques, we contacted our friend Emily. She shared many ideas how we could renovate the space to reflect our style as well as maintain the conveniences we need…
The Cottage
We blogged about The Barn by Firehouse Antiques and Our Fixer Upper and here is the final building of our recent purchase, The Cottage. The Cottage is located beside our barn and it was New Harmony’s Barbershop as well as recently, Just A Stone’s Throw who merged with Lowry Hollow and opened their new location at 310 Main Street New Harmony, Indiana. At first we thought this could be an Airbnb….ah dreams! But we are excited to announce it will now be the new home of Moon River Spa owned and operated by Jenifer Blevins who is a friend and longtime resident of New Harmony, IN. She’s a certified…
Our Fixer-Upper
As you know, last October we bought a barn. Check out our last blog post here for more details. When we bought this property, our main goal was to utilize the hundred-year-old barn for storage and as a potential event venue. The neat, but scary part of buying the barn was that it came with a house and a cottage which both need fixing up. Now we have our mid-century modern “fixer-upper”. In the beginning we focused on the barn and started preparing it as the space we dreamed of for 10 years, but over the last couple of months we started thinking of the work we wanted to accomplish…
Estate Sales Are Back At Firehouse Antiques
Our customers love to shop estate sales and they kept asking when we would be returning this service, so here it is! We are back to doing estate sales. For more than 25 years we have worked with our community to help liquidate estates in Nashville, Tennessee and through our shop, Firehouse Antiques in New Harmony, Indiana. After taking a couple years to enjoy some travel and time with our girls, we are happy to say we are accepting new estates. Our top two questions in our store are, “Where do we find all this amazing stuff, and how can we sell our own items?” The answer to both of…
