About Us
founded in 2006 - home economics hit the pavement and accelerated with a country living magazine styling project in its first week.
zigs to the right and a great big zag to the left last year landed us at h street antiques and transformed our entire approach - massively widening our geographic focus.
our "small town store with big city style" was featured in country living magazine's september issue as prop stylists for a rogue creamery article in the food section...in july we worked with mary engelbreit's home companion magazine and country living magazine again...in october home companion magazine yet again...a column in southern exposure magazine became a regular gig and distinctly northwest magazine took note...now in 2010, the new york times newspaper, march 18...next?
"something for everyone - traditional with a twist - sizzling style at prices that don't burn budgets"
visit our downtown showroom sharing space with h street antiques at 138 s.e. "h" street.
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What's New?
home economics sprang out of the starting blocks this year at a breakneck pace while introducing the new british route sign designs line with exhibits in new york, los angeles, san francisco and seattle...
a new website was launched - www.britishroutesigndesigns - and a line of soft goods and upholstered furniture was added to our customers' favorite item...vintage british transit route signs...taken directly from double decker buses throughout great britain circa 1940s through 1970s
the line includes pillows, lamp shades, curtain panels, bed skirts, table cloths and an ever growing selection of soft goods...
vintage one-of-a-kind furniture pieces have been updated with route signs as accents to highlight the silhouette of ottomans, wingback chairs and industrial/machine age arm chairs and sides chairs.
british route sign designs were featured in new york times newspaper on march 18 at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/garden/18decor.html?pagewanted=all
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it lingers in the air at home economics, our core design philosophy - surprise me - gathering unexpected furniture, lighting, artwork and accessories and combining them in unlikely and always surprising combinations.
in addition to searching out rare and unusual inventory, one of home economics' trademarks is to exhibit mundane and overly familiar objects in a way that makes them exotic and suddenly new again.
you never know what to expect when you step through the back doors at h street antiques and enter the space occupied by home economics...one day it could be a hardware nailbin reimagined as a depository for books, albums, trophies and collected ephemera...the next day it might be a glamorous fringed vanity chair dripping with hollywood style...later that week the simplest of sawbuck benches stands out only for its length which exceeds nine feet and will fill the entire front of a porch or fit an extra six on one side of the dining table
come by and be surprised.
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Merchandise We Carry
it suddenly strikes me as silly to attempt a list of merchandise we carry - a shorter list might include merchandise we don't carry.
multiples are a huge them at home economics - one of most things holds no interest for me, but let me put three of something together or seventeen of something or better yet 127 of something and i'm a happy man.
there's something about an instant collection or multiples of an object - showing its progression through time and design that fascinates me.
at times its about the sheer mass of tossing hundreds of vintage flash bulbs in an old aquarium and lighting it from behind that lands at a hmmmmmm... moment - on a more reflective day it could be a concise group of three of nearly anything - typewriters, paint brushes, yard sticks, newspaper printing plates...
there's just something about a three way conversation among objects that invites others to join - less intimate than a pair and hinting that there are more...maybe many more...to come.
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