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Krista Knox of Revived Vintage in South Carolina said customers are drawn to items reflecting yesteryear. Photos by Gale Horton Gay
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Country and vintage styles remain popular in home decor
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Kim Rowe, second from left, with her daughters and mother at the Country Living Fair at Stone Mountain Park, plans to decorate
her front porch for the holidays with this vintage sled.
BY GALE HORTON GAY
Old bam doors, kitchen ware from yesterday, handmade
linens from a bygone time, comfort food and old-time
recipes, manual devices that’ve been replaced by electronic
ones are showing up in more and more homes. Country
living is a home and lifestyle approach that has had mass
appeal.
Recently, 200 vendors of antiques, country goods,
farmhouse items and other wares shared their goods and
advice with thousands of visitors at the Oct. 25-27 Country
Living Fair held at Stone Mountain Park. Presented by
Country Living magazine, the event is one of three fairs held
throughout the country annually
At the fair at Stone Mountain Park, there was no
shortage of country and antique items—many of which
were repurposed—such as windows, latches, milk bottles,
advertising signs, vintage forks and spoons, mgs, quilts,
chairs, rolling pines, jewelry and more. Among items
displayed at some of the booths were feed bags turned into
purses, glass milk bottles holding soy candles and tea cups
transformed into plant holders.
Krista Knox of Revived Vintage in South Carolina was
one of the vendors at the fair. She and her husband specialize
in 80- to 100-year-old bam wood decor. Her husband
handcrafts the wood into home decor items and she turns
vintage mason jars—some of which date back to the early
1800s—into decorative vases.
She said customers are drawn to repurposed items from a
time that’s passed and which gives them a connection to that
era.
“Some people like really old rusty things, some people
want something new,” she said.
Knox added that she has her great-grandmother’s sewing
machine with foot pedal on which three generations of her
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