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/Weekly design round up featuring beautiful imagery to inspire you in your home.
Read MoreWeekly design round up featuring beautiful imagery to inspire you in your home.
Read MoreWe review our year at Retro Den and relive some of our highlights!
Read MoreMeet Tulsa Maker Bianca Howell of Owl and Drum. Owl and Drum is Tulsa's "one-stop shop" for modern fabrics, quilting and sewing supplies, sewing classes and gifts. When we were on 15th Street, Owl and Drum was across the street and to the east of our shop. I remember walking across the street to say hello and meet my neighbor businesses. We didn't know then, but that was the start of great friendships and business relationships. We love working with Bianca because she has an enviable knack for color and creativity. We carry her napkins, tea towels, modern quilts, and pillows in our shop. I, Ashley Daly, make tons and tons of baby clothes from the beautiful fabrics from Owl and Drum. We also host craft nights where the ladies of O&D share skills with us and customers. I always leave feeling inspired after spending time with Bianca. Read more about this awesome Tulsa maker.
Read MoreToday gratitude is more important than ever. We are thankful to have the opportunity to run our small business in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When we took over Retro Den more than three years ago, we didn't anticipate how it would evolve into a place of community, inspiration, and belonging.
A place to gather. Whether embroidering a tea towel with friends on a vintage sofa, crowding around Succulent Sara with fellow plant-lovers to learn the proper way to care for a succulent, or talking with a local artist about her work during the annual Alliday Show, we are thankful for the ways our shop brings our community together.
A place to be inspired. You come in to share your ideas, feel motivated, observe beauty, and dream about ways to make your home a space that brings you energy and joy because you know your surroundings matter.
A place to belong. We are thankful for your kindness when you come into our shop. We love that you talk with us about your homes, your families, and your lives. Whether sharing a compliment, a beloved plant or a story, you make us feel like we belong and we hope we make you feel that way too.
As a thank you to you, dear customers, we are happy to announce our annual Thankful Sale this year, November 25 and 26, Black Friday and Small Business Saturday! We will offer a store-wide discount of 20% to all and 25% to newsletter subscribers (sign up here!). We only offer deals like this twice a year, so come in say and hello, have a look around, get some early holiday gifts, and pick up that piece you've been thinking about for yourself.
While you have multiple options for working with us to style your space, today we wanted to share more about how the deliciously titled The Whole Enchilada styling package works.
We help you search your heart about what you want out of your home. You’ll fill out a brief document telling us about your current space and your dreams for it. While this helps us know how to best serve you, you'll find it extremely insightful as well. Slowing down and asking the right questions sets the scene for an organized and targeted approach.
Read MoreRead our blog for home tours, home styling tips, and plant care advice!
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.
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!
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!).
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.