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Decorating with Vintage Finds

After spending down their budget building their dream home, this family scoured demolition sites, junkyards, and secondhand stores to instill instant character into their house.

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The Vintage Home

Building this 1,865-square-foot home on a comparatively meager budget meant being creative with everything from resources to decoration. The home's barnlike form gains an industrial edge, tempered with skewed angles and a playful palette of materials: concrete, exposed conduit, corrugated metal, and beams made from bonded wood fiber.



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