Our first week

screenshot of H is for Home website

We’ve had an exciting & hectic week here at H is for Home headquarters! It was a very nerve racking experience going live last Friday – like throwing a party and anxiously waiting to see if any of your guests turn up!

green vintage metamec clock vintage blue pottery salt & pepper pots

Fortunately we’ve had lots of visits and a fair few orders coming in.

vintage orange handled kitchen utensils vintage Washington 'Aquarius' plate

handmade fabric peg bag vintage woolen blanket

With the parcels going out, we’ve become very familiar faces at our local post office.

vintage sugar sifter vintage Whitefriars green glass water jug

We’d really like to thank all our fellow bloggers who’ve featured us in their blogs this week- they’ve really helped to get word out across the inter-web! Special mention goes out to decor8, Bloesem, Ninainvorm, desire to inspire, pixiegenne, What’s blogging my view, Tinkering Times and janeq – you can see all the others on our ‘about us‘ page.

vintage Vladimir Tretchikoff 'Chinese Lady' print

vintage blue Whitefriars glass bowl

We’d also like to thank everyone for getting in touch with their kind words of support, advice and compliments- they’ve all been much appreciated.

hand crocheted corsage men's vintage leather wallet

vintage wooden apple vintage desk calendar

Today’s images are some of the things that have sold since we launched. There’ll be new stuff being added to the shop stock each week.

We’ve gone live!!!

screen shot of H is for Home website

Our new website, H is for Home is now live!!!

After many months of preparation (and a couple of false starts) we’re now up & running. With spring just around the corner it seems the perfect time to launch- new beginnings and bursting into life.

vintage curtains vintage orange clock

We’re an online homewares shop. The site’s tag line reads “one off, handmade and vintage items for the home” – that’s a pretty good summary.

green vintage art glass dish green vintage saucepan

We have a particular fondness for mid-20th century design – the 1950s, 60s & 70s, but we also stock much older pieces – some dating as far back as the 18th century.

Antique dairy bowl Antique wooden sieve

If it’s useful, beautiful (or both) then the date doesn’t really matter.

Thomas Pottery porcelain coffee cup

You’ll come across all kinds of vintage goodies – art pottery & glass, lighting, paintings, furniture, kitchenalia, tableware, soft furnishings, fashion etc, etc, etc.

vintage red daisy patterned enamel bowl vintage wood and leather stool

In addition to the vintage stuff, we also source more recently made items with an emphasis on the handcrafted – pottery, textiles and so on.

teapot and hand knitted cosy hand thrown pottery bowl

The photos in this blog are a small sample of what’s on offer. Stock will be constantly updated and added to. We hope you find something to fall in love with!
Best wishes,
Adelle and Justin signature

Countdown to going live!

It’s been our long-held dream to have our own shop selling the kind of stuff we love. We’re both really into interior design and decoration- especially things that are vintage, quirky, unusual, handmade, one off…

We finally got round to doing something about it and it’s called H is for Home.

The last 12 months have been a combination of excitement and sheer hard work.

Nearly a decade of collecting meant there was the job of photographing and cataloguing of over a thousand items of stock, their safe storage and the movement of packed crates to all corners of our house. Tasks not made any easier with a large (and very nosy) Weimaraner under our feet.

We used to have 4 bedrooms, now we’re down to one. Any overnight guest now has to jostle for space with the boxes, brown paper & bubble wrap.

Finally there was the small matter of building a website. Thanks to Mike for his patience…we’re nearly there now… just a few more tweaks.

Our aim was to be ready sometime before Christmas – so we’d better get a move on!

If you’d like to be one of the first to know when we’ve gone live, join our mailing list here!

Here’s a taste of things to come!

tea and biscuit with book

antique spindle back chair and vintage West German vases

vintage salad bowl with servers

vintage German coffee set

vintage thermos flask

vintage 1950s apron