Rae Plants & Vintage

Happy (Official) Spring!

With spring always comes thoughts of

beautiful new plants and flowers 

budding. However, if you are anything

like us and love fresh plants, but don't

quite have the green thumb, it can be

complicated, for lack of a better word.

Luckily, we found a pretty awesome 

solution. Rae Plants and Vintage!

We stumbled upon the page by chance

on instagram one day and fell in love

with their aesthetic. Not too long

after following the lovely ladies,

they announced that their unique

air plants in vintage planters were now

being offered for delivery! (eep!)

Not only are the planters carefully packaged

but they were even cool in person.

They even include

care instructions with ever order for the plants, so 

people like us, don't get discouraged

or scared of caring for a living plant.

They add the perfect spring touch

to our decor.

We are obsessed with it all. 

ABOUT RAE PLANTS Natalie and Jillian are Seattle transplants from

 NYC and Chicago, respectively. After meeting

 at their new jobs in the corporate fashion world,

 they immediately bonded over their love of vintage,

 thrifting and antiquing, plants, and their shared

 middle name, Rae. Once they'd each filled their

 own homes to capacity with plants, and in search 

of a creative outlet that got them outside and exploring

 new things in the city, they started planting easy

 to care for houseplants in vintage and re-purposed 

planters to sell at local flea markets. The response

 they got was really exciting - people love plants,

 but are worried that they don't know how to care for 

them, or don't want to deal with potting them themselves!

Less than a year after launching Rae Plants, the business 

has expanded to include plant interiors for both commercial 

spaces and residences, plants for parties and events, local plant

 gift deliveries, wholesale potted plants to local retailers, and 

most excitingly, a collective retail store, Ship Song Collective, 

along with six other local artists and creatives that they met 

on the Seattle pop-up market scene.  

Check out their store online

Rae Plants & Vintage

or on instagram@raeplantsandvintage

fox + gypsy

Mint + Rose Gold Record Cabinet

Hello!

 We have been so excited to share this post with

you all. It's been a while since we've refurbished

a vintage piece, but when we came across this 

find (at quite a bargain might we add), we couldn't

pass it up!

We picked up this AMAZING mid-century

record cabinet. We've never seen anything like it.

We tried to do a quick search of it out of

pure curiosity to see how old it was, but could only 

find a couple like it, and not even exact.

The look of it in it's original state wasn't quite our

flavor, so we decided to add a little flair to it

by painting it one of our favorite colors,

Mint Green, and adding this years metallic craze,

rose gold, or light copper, to match the office.

We couldn't imagine a more dreamy outcome

for a new home for our records and player!

We're obsessed!

Before

 We bought a paint with a primer from Target to reduce costs, but this 

piece still required a couple layers because of the 

vinyl finish. For the Metallic paint, we used this light copper

acrylic from Target, and this wax paint from Michaels.

 Happy DIY-ing!

 fox + gypsy

Home is Where the Art Is

Anyone else feel like they get into decorating

mode a lot? You're not alone! It's hard

to get a room just right, especially when you start

trolling the pages of Pinterest and love, um,

EVERYTHING.

But man, doesn't it just feel GREAT, when a space

just starts naturally coming together? It takes some time

but little-by-little, the little pieces of the decor puzzle

just start fitting.

The living room has been one of those spaces.

It's been 3 years, and I think it's now finally starting

to feel just right with the help of some small little details

like this little nook (as we like to call it).

All of these things in the nook have been acquired over time, and

just recently it got the final touch it needed, 

with this modern map art print. As soon as we

saw it, we knew it was the piece for the space! 

It was the perfect Modern piece to accent the

vintage items.

I mean seriously, how cool is this print? 

We are obsessed!

Now that we've discovered 

Modern Map Art, our next project:

a wall filled with cities we visited!

Cool right?

Check out Modern Map Art to find the perfect

piece for your home!

Modern Map Art Website

Rose Gold + Marble Desk DIY

Searching for a glam desk within your budget is a lot more

difficult then we thought. We’re talking $900 outta budget. It’s

especially more difficult when you have something very specific

in mind. Our quest initially started out looking for something

in the realm of white and gold. That instantly took us down

a dark path of the “perfect” desk with an imperfect price tag.

After weeks of searching (we also have serious FOBO:

fear of better options), we decided, if you can’t

find it, make it yourself!

We did some research and found out that, a. we changed

Our minds on style (shocking) and b. it’s very easy to DIY

your desk to suite your style.  

We landed on Rose Gold + Marble, and after finding a desk

In our budget, we decided to go for it!

We bought a couple cans of metallic spray paint,

ordered our marble contact paper on Amazon Prime (cause, addicts)

and went to town!

 

Obligatory before picture of the space and desk.

Before you assemble your desk, you want to make

sure you spray paint all the hardware and let it dry.

This is the part where it can get sticky (pun intended) so we 

are including the video (below the material images)
 we followed for application of your 

contact/adhesive paper to your top.

Here are all the materials you will need prior:

Marble Adhesive Video Tutorial

When you are done prepping all your pieces,
it's time to assemble!

We LOVE the way it turned out. We can't
believe how good the marble contact
paper looks!

Now that the desk is complete, time to
work on the rest of the space!

Hope you found a little inspiration today!

Happy DIY-ing!

fox + gypsy