Abode
What do you do when you like to collect and antique so much that the door on your storage unit won’t close, thanks to a few too many vintage chairs and antique dressers? You open up an eclectic consignment boutique so that others can browse and purchase your your treasured collectibles, of course. It’s more fun that way, anyway.
A scenario along those lines brought about Salt Lake’s Abode. The bright turquoise box-of-a-building on 900 East is filled (almost to the brim) with colorful items from yesteryear, both found and consigned. Alongside vintage aprons, dishes and serving trays that will brighten any living quarters, you’ll see antique hutches, retro lamps and mirrors fit for your grandmother’s parlor … and now yours.
Ask any interior decorator and he’ll tell you that while filling your house with fresh, modern pieces is a must, it’s the few conversation-worthy pieces that will morph yours walls into a home. It could be the bright yellow cuckoo clock that greets visitors in the entryway, or the unusual collection of salt-and-pepper shakers decorating the top of your console.
Though not quite as thrifty as the thrift store—not to mention the garage sale or your grandmother’s linen closet—Abode offers a serious handful of vintage doodads fit for making your home interesting. You might have to look high and low until you see the one item (a teacup? a spoon? a skeleton key?) that speaks to your heart, but when you find it, you’ll know.
Abode also hosts flea markets in their parking lot on summer Saturdays beginning May 3. If you’re interested in becoming a vendor, visit the Abode website.
{Gone To Market}
Abode
1720 South 900 East
Salt Lake City, Utah
(801) 486-2633
www.abodepfm.com
April 21st, 2008 at 2:34 am
Abode always has the most amazingly quirky selection of goods, and the gals who run the place are gads of fun. Great post!
April 21st, 2008 at 9:27 am
How funny, I just heard about this for the first time this weekend- and now here it is again. I guess that means I must go and check it out. Looks darling!
April 21st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
One of my FAVORITE stores in the valley. I can always find something here to buy….they also have fantastic jewelry some of which is designed and created by one of the owners. I’ve bought many a jewelry present for friends and family at this store!
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I love this blog because you always stop at the place that I drive by going “hmmm what’s in there”. I’ll have to make a point to stop in now.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I just went here for the first time on Saturday with my 6yo daughter and we had so much fun. There is so much to see and treasures waiting to be found. Love it!
December 18th, 2008 at 1:13 am
[...] Abode: The bright turquoise box-of-a-building on 900 East is filled (almost to the brim) with colorful items from yesteryear, both found and consigned. Alongside vintage aprons, dishes and serving trays that will brighten any living quarters, you’ll see antique hutches, retro lamps and mirrors fit for your grandmother’s parlor … and now yours. Read the entire post here. [...]