Retro home decor store teams up with Holland vintage furniture shop

Deborah Johnson Wood

Lindsey Scott was unemployed and using her time to help Found owner Susan Langjans with her new shop in Holland. That's when she got the idea to start her own store, Vagabond, inside Found.

Where Found, 203 E. Eighth Street, offers mostly repurposed furniture, lamps, art and vintage fabrics, Vagabond comes alongside with retro home décor and gifts that complete a room's look and feel.

"It's a pretty eclectic mix," says Scott of the new and repurposed items Vagabond offers. "I have vintage prints and frames, cabinet hardware, magnets, salt and pepper shakers, glassware and plates."

The store's gift lines include candles, hand-tooled leather journals by Milwaukee artist Sarah Heck and letterpress cards by Holland's Give Studio.

The two stores occupy the same space, but to customers it looks like one shop.

"Everything is mixed within the space," Scott says. "I'm using Susan's furniture to merchandise my things; she's using my things to merchandise her furniture.

"The new items are from very cool companies," she adds. "The vintage stuff we find at estate sales, salvage shops, Salvation Army, garage sales – we're just hunters. We spend time every week going out looking for things."

Found opened in May. Vagabond joined the fun in November. Since the two stores combined, Scott says they've seen an increase in customer traffic.

"The more you have to offer, the more reasons people have to come in and see what we're doing," she says. "We've noticed that people are spending more time in the store because there's more to look at. Not everybody's going to stop into a store and buy a sofa – but if they stop in to buy a card or a journal and happen to fall in love with a sofa, it benefits everybody."

Store hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Source: Lindsey Scott, Vagabond; Mimi Fritz, Downtown Holland Principal Shopping District

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Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at [email protected]. Have a development news tip for Rapid Growth? Contact us at [email protected].