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WHY WE LOVE VINTAGE FURNITURE (AND YOU SHOULD TOO!)

Why we love vintage furniture is oh so simple. Your home is our home.  Home is an important part of your lives, every day we are in it, somewhere at some time of the day or night. It is important to our very being to feel love in our homes, and that goes hand in hand with loving the furniture in our homes too.

A beautifully loved vintage chest of drawers...

So why settle for something that is the same as everyone else in your street?  Do you really enjoy opening up flatpacks of furntiure and then trying to decipher the instructions and all those nuts and bolts and stress! 

Our whole love, passion, feeling and philosophy are one. Coming through your front door after a long day or night at work, and finding yourself surrounded with lovely warm, comforting, beautiful vintage furniture should be with 'heartfelt love'.

Since time gone by, we have made furniture, we have made it well, with pride and with solid good wood, designed to test time, that is why Vintage furniture is truly loved. Loved by us and loved by you. Vintage furniture shows you its love as you look it, as you touch it, the odd knock, the little dent, the marks of time gone by, of the love it has had bestowed upon it.  

It is Vintage, and every single little mark has a story behind it, that is why we love it, why it is so unique, it only comes with one instruction leaflet, "how to love me more..."

One simple instruction to our Vintage furniture: "how to love me more..."

9/11/15 - John and I started our lovely business five years ago. Previously,  I retrained to be a florist whilst our twin sons were going to school, and then subsequently started my own floristry business and loved it!

Sadly, I fell ill, literally overnight.  John left work to look after me and our children.  I have slowly got to a place where I can work, albeit, sometimes from home, or from the sanctuary of our Craft School. I have loved getting involved with all forms of social media, well, learning about social media and how it works! It has been a challenge, as it has been so new to me and technology has changed and developed so fast.

From Facebook to Instagram, Twitter to Google+, I have learnt, sometimes the hard way, how to use these social media platforms. So imagine our surprise when we found ourselves part of Social media!  

We found ourselves part of a piece in The Guardian.  Follow this link to read all about us and other small family businesses.  It has all gone full circle, from working for myself, to now working with my husband, who cared for me and now we love working together...

http://www.theguardian.com/…/love-business-stories-readers-…

Looking forward to more social media but more importantly, looking forward to seeing YOU, our lovely customers in our Vintage Furniture Boutique, here in Sussex.

With best wishes,
Trixie x

SEEING FRIENDS WITH ADDED FUN!
 

 

 
 

28/6/15 - VINTAGE SHOPPING FUN
 
Shopping is fun. No doubt about that, and being a girl too!
But this was shopping fun with my husband for furniture stock for our Boutique here in Sussex. 

Going shopping with John for our Boutique shop is great fun. It is one of the truly most enjoyable, if not really hard work, days that we have together.

It's an early start, not as early as some fairs, and a long day too. We started at 7.00 and didn't get back to Lovingly Made until 4.00!  And that was just the start of things!
We then started to unload everything we had bought. John and I then inventorise every item onto our computer accounting system. I then start to sort items into what areas they are, furniture, finds, curios, home and garden. 

I then clean and polish our furniture. It is then stock coded, and I then photograph those items going online.  Items are placed into its new home or put into our 'stock holding' area. When I get home, I then import the photographs, choose the appropriate ones for online and export to our website and other social media sites. Which can take quite some time. 

I think we finally left at about 7.30 and not even having finished unloading. So the following day, we then restarted. It is a great feeling when everything is unloaded and placed out in its new home! 

We really enjoy our buying days. It is a great day of haggling with prices and traders. It is knowing what is "trending" in the home market and seeing potential of furniture. I love seeing something that is unloved and turning my hand to restoring something to pure beauty. 

Pop by and see what we have in our Boutique.
We'd love to see you. 

With best wishes,
Trixie x

1/6/15 - LOVINGLY US

It's relatively easy to be behind the iPhone or website, even Facebook which is a bit ironic really! So I thought it would be great to show and tell you a little bit about us here at Lovingly Made!

Our Boutique at twilight...

John and I have found running our own business incredibly fulfilling but there is always a flip side - in as much that it can also be a little overwhelming! We always have a very long list of things we would like to do!  

At the moment, we are in the process of painting our Boutique buildings, so bringing a coherent colour to them all, a lovely grey.  Our new, preloved (of course!), van has proven to be a great investment, if not a bit scary at the time of buying it. 

 

John and I have our own other personal hobbies and interests, which is important when you are married and working together.  I love walking our dog, going to the gym and a trip to a cinema is a real passion of mine!  John would love to play more golf,  he really enjoys cooking supper, loves to read current affairs and will always take Charlie, our dog out for another walk too.  

We are both very lucky that we can be with each other all day, and do our best to 'switch off' from work when we get home!  We try not to talk about business too much, but because we love what we do, we invariably do touch on a few subjects for discussion!

John and I in our Boutique...

Charlie in our van on deliveries with John!

We hope that you find yourself in Sussex soon, and pop down our countryside lane which opens up to a beautiful oasis of calm, lovely Courtyard, Vintage Boutiques full to the brim with furniture and us of course!  Charlie might even give you his paw to say hello!