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Adding vintage to home decor

It sounds nerdy, but I have been on the hunt for a cool lampshade for almost eight months. A lampshade that isn’t boring. A lampshade that isn’t just 50 shades of grey (boring!). Come on people, someone please make lampshades that aren’t so boring or cost the same amount as my first car. Anyhow, I digress. So it was while on the hunt for this elusive lampshade for my antique floor lamp that I came across addVintage at East Brisbane. addVintage specialises in retro, Danish and Eames-era furniture and collectables.

They have a cool range of retro lounge suites, dining suites, storage units, sideboards, buffets, floor lamps, art glass vases, dinnerware, cowhide rugs and other rare and timeless items that were found in homes between 1947 and 1974 in Australia and overseas. They also stock local items and top-quality pieces sourced from northern Europe. And, most importantly, they had my lampshade. It was a shade found at an estate sale in Paddington and was from the 1960s. It had everything I wanted – shape, many colours and a cool story. Be still this vintage furniture lover’s heart. Check the place out, and make time for a coffee as they have a quirky café on site.

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