Flirting with FleaMarkets

We love a good hunt. As much as we love Home Depot, True Value and Lowes, we'll drive out to Pennsylvania and knock down a barn to get our hands on some reclaimed wood. We will drive long and hard to find architectural wonders cast offs. I remember the days of driving around Brooklyn looking for buildings being renovated. Why? I wanted the windows! Those windows make beautiful frames. Remember this? That's a Brooklyn window I held on to for over 6 years before we bought a house. It's super special to me, and now I get to see it every day in my otherwise gross kitchen. Needless to say, we love junk. We love taking interesting things and making them our own. It's good for us as a married couple to work on projects together, as well as being responsible to our earth, we get to use things in new ways instead of letting them wind up in a landfill. Do you know of an awesome flea market? Do tell, we will travel far and wide (rent a uhaul and bring i back home!)

  

 Photo Credits: DIY.com

 A few weeks back I made a post about some books I got at Amazon with Junk/Flea Market styling. I wanted to up-date that list a little bit and give you some new resources I found:

Flea Market Decor Books:

Garage Sale Decorator's Bible: How to Find Treasures, Fix Them & Furnish Your Home (we are obsessed. just look at the cover, come on now!)

Flea Market Style

The Find: The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage Details

Flea Market Style: Decorating with a Creative Edge

Flea Market Decor Online Resources:

fleamarketstylemag.blogspot.com/

Diy.com has a few greats things up now too! Check them out:

Flea Market-Style Home

30 Storage Ideas from Flea Market Finds

Quick Fixes for Second Hand Scores

Flea Markets to Check Out:

http://www.tradingplaceamerica.com/blog/

http://www.brooklynflea.com/

http://www.buffaloreuse.org/

http://www.etflea.com/