CLEAN SLATE: Want the perfect canvas for your home decor dreams? Here's a broom.

CLEAN SLATE: Want the perfect canvas for your home decor dreams? Here's a broom.

At Retro Den, we think home design starts with having a clean home. Palmer was born a tidy person. Daly had to acquire the skills and mindset. Here's some clean home hints we shared in this month's Tulsa Voice. Read below.

CLEAN SLATE: Want the perfect canvas for your home decor dreams? Here's a broom. Having less can mean less cleaning—when you make your driveway a store for a day, it can also mean more money.

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Elements of a Good Front Porch

Elements of a Good Front Porch

Shared some crucial front-porch-sitting information over on The Noshery today. Read a snippet below. Elements of a Good Front Porch

I’ve always been like that character from Bewitched, Gladys Kravitz, who would keep creepy close watch on her neighbors. Blasphemous as it sounds, Ms. Cravitz didn’t have her snooping down just right though. Peering through curtains with binoculars is suspect, but you know what’s not? Sitting on your front porch, having a spiked lemonade and seemingly watching traffic.

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TRENDING: ROCKS, COPPER, HORSES

TRENDING: ROCKS, COPPER, HORSES

We spend all day thinking about lovely home decor, and sweet, kind Meseidy over at The Noshery allowed us to wax poetic about our most recent favorite things. Read a snippet below.Trending: Rocks, Copper, Horses

Here’s a story I tell a lot: twenty-four-year-old me is at the local flea market gathering up all the brass animals in one booth. “I just love, really love, brass animals,” I excitedly tell the vendor, a rotund man with gentle eyes, wearing a top hat, flowing beard and vest, and who I’ve recently found out is nicknamed “Santa.” He tilts his head to the side and says the following in a tone that one uses to deliver a real zinger, “Well, maybe someday they will come back into style.” Ouch, Santa. Not exactly what you want to say to someone about your inventory before the transaction is complete. I should have asked for a discount since brass animals were so uncool, but instead, I looked the man in the eyes, said, “Sir, that day is sooner than you think,” and walked away with my treasures.

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FIVE TIPS FOR ASSEMBLING A VINTAGE BAR

FIVE TIPS FOR ASSEMBLING A VINTAGE BAR

There is certainly some drinking that goes on at the Daly household. I had the opportunity to share on The Noshery how I consume in style.

Five Tips for Assembling a Vintage Bar

My husband and I like to remember the first barbecue of summer 2009. We were drinking Red Bull and Olde English malt liquor and grilling hotdogs at our friend Adam’s apartment. Another friend, Jarrel, the great proclaimer, reacted to something that made him happy by saying, “Looks right, feels right.” The official mantra of our friend group was born.

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We are on the Noshery!

We are on the Noshery!

Want to know more about what the Ashleys are thinking about and doing? Meseidy at The Noshery asked us to blog a few times a month about home decorating and projects. Here are sneak peeks of two posts for her so far:

Introduction by Vignette
Hi! My name is Ashley Daly, co-owner of Retro Den, a vintage home store in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When Meseidy asked my business partner, Ashley Palmer (two Ashleys!) and me to contribute some guest blogs to The Noshery, we were pumped. CONTINUE READING

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