Diving Through Brooklyn's Thrift
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Good things come to those who thrift, and in Brooklyn - a city so rich with culture and eclectic findings - it’s not entirely impossible to walk into a thrift store and leave it with what may be the best deal you’ve ever been lucky enough to stumble upon. That is Brooklyn thrifting in a nutshell. A person can enter a place just to browse and end up rearranging their apartment to match their new thrift store purchase.
The beauty about Brooklyn apartments is that their antiquated appearances make them ideal canvases for scavenged goods from the local vintage furniture shop. Items from the late 70’s just look better in an exposed brick apartment, paired with a few modern purchases from your Red Hook’s Ikea, of course.
True story: Once we went into a small vintage shop on Star Street in Bushwick, just browsing around and looking for nothing in particular when suddenly we found what may be the most spectacular armchair. Now, in the back of our mind, we had always been looking for a chair like that, but everything on Amazon seemed overpriced and somewhat risky. Some people had loved the item - others had hated it. With such strong opinions, we never did find that chair until it literally almost fell on top of us in the mildly cramped thrift store. Seventy-five bucks later, we were kings looking at the most spectacular olive green retro arm chair sitting in the corner of our apartment.
Thrift can do that to you. A good purchase can change you and make you float on clouds for a moment. If you don’t believe us, check out these stores for yourself. We highly recommend them.
