February 19, 2017

Vintage Shopping in Tulsa: Tulsa Antique Malls

February 19, 2017/ Ashley Daly

First up in our series on our favorite places to shop vintage in Tulsa–antique malls!

While a great friend may love hitting up the thrift stores and estate sales with you, an antique mall may appeal to a wider audience. For example, Palmer used to take friends and extended family to Generations Antique Mall after breakfast at Tally's on the weekends. Everyone seemed to find a trinket (like a plastic lemon tree or German Shepherd figurine) to take home or at least enjoyed looking.

June 25, 2014

Cocktail Napkin Sewing Night with Owl and Drum

June 25, 2014/ Retro Den Vintage Home Store and Design

This past Thursday, we hosted a cocktail napkin sewing class at the shop with our friends at Owl and Drum, the cutest sewing and craft store at 15th and Delaware in Tulsa. Have you been? Their fabrics are to die for, they've got cute gifts (headbands, books, jewelry, etc.) and classes that will whip you into a beautiful crafting wizard. Bianca, the owner, is delightful, kind and helpful. Since our shops like each other so much, we decided they should go on a date. Enter Cocktail Napkin Sewing Night at Retro Den. The lovely Mary Perisho teaches most of the classes at Owl and Drum, and she taught our class too. We couldn't have been more excited that she brought vintage sewing machines for us and our guests to use. To top the evening off, attendees enjoyed fancy cocktails, Antoinette's Baking Co. treats and our ever charming banter.

January 29, 2014

We are on the Noshery!

January 29, 2014/ Retro Den Vintage Home Store and Design

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

January 05, 2014

Sara's Room: Hollywood Regency Meets Flea Market Nerd

January 05, 2014/ Retro Den Vintage Home Store and Design

Our theme here is white, clean, almost stark, but with punches of color and quirk that add warmth. Kinda Hollywood Regency meets flea market nerd. Our friend Sara's chic style inspired this room. It's an office and workspace where meetings with clients could take place and creative feats could be achieved. There was so much joy in picking out what she might put on her shelves to inspire her.

January 03, 2014

Jeff's Room

January 03, 2014/ Retro Den Vintage Home Store and Design

Jeff Room 2

We just let husband Ryan in on our trick for making up new rooms in the store. He gave us a premise for our next arrangement. Mission: Make a room for Jeff, a seminarian who is a traveling salesperson during the summer months. His mom gave him these rugs with hints of pink. We tell Jeff we can make them work into a masculine room.

January 14, 2018

Minimalism vs. Unfinished Decorating: Daly's Bedroom Update

The difference between minimal and unfinished decorating

I've been lying in bed thinking about this quite a lot over the past year. My life ritual is to swing from one extreme to another, then gently wander my way into middle ground. I did this with boyfriends. I did this with work. I'm doing this with my bedroom decorating, duh. So my once packed bedroom became quite a blank canvas this past year. And it's from this place, I have been contemplating the difference between minimal design and something not quite finished.

December 24, 2017

Lortondale Mid-Century Modern House in Tulsa

For Sale: Modern Tulsa Home

At the moment of writing this, our dear friends Sarah and Adam Heatherington's Lortondale home is up for sale! We've had it on our list to take photos for a home tour, so we ran over there as soon as we heard our time was dwindling. We are so happy to share this thoughtful home with you.

November 26, 2017

Tulsa home styling: A sweet and simple vintage boys' room

We always say our clients are stylish people, but this has never been more the case than when we worked with local blogger and house renovator Emily Netz. Emily and her husband Jeff recently renovated their 1920s Tulsa home (which you can see and read about here) and Emily designed and furnished nearly every space except for her boys' room. When it came to this room, Emily felt stuck on how to create the space she had imagined in her head and wanted an extra pair (or two) of eyes to help bring it to life. We were more than happy to help!

November 5, 2017

Colorful Vintage + Modern Kitchen Renovation in Tulsa, OK

Well, I can't believe it. Our kitchen is actually done. Done, I say! It's been so long, I'm ashamed for you to look back to see the date of the "before" kitchen post.

Okay. It was April 30th.

So that means the kitchen's been about six months in the making. Now to be completely fair, our kitchen has been functional since mid July, but the "finishing touches" took nearly as long as the bulk of the demo/installation. But whatever. It was our first renovation and we went at it without a general contractor and it's done now, so who cares if it took six months? Who's even counting, right? (I can say that now that it's over, because I did care. I was the crazy woman counting!).

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