Vintage Home by IlluminArt

05/27/2026

Saturday, June 6, is the first drawing for our $500 shopping spree! Get your tickets fully punched to be eligible. $10 spent in any of our 3 stores gets one punch. Each fully punched ticket is redeemable for $20 off your next purchase and entry in the drawing. There will be another drawing in November with tickets redemed after June 6. All remaining non winners will be entered into a second chance drawing in January. Good luck 🍀

05/21/2026

Stop in and see these beautifully restored MCM Danish style black walnut chairs. 😍 They are fresh on the sales floor this morning but we expect them to find their forever homes quickly. If chairs can be sexy these have all the feels. New webbing and cushions. $1200 for the pair.

05/12/2026

05/07/2026

Loyalty bucks! Every $10 spent gets a punch of your card. When the card is fully punched you get $20 off your purchase and the card goes into a biannual drawing for a $500 shopping spree throughout our 3 interconnected stores. Vintage Home, Real Furniture, and Market St Mercantile. Drawings are held June 6 and November 21. A second chance drawing will be held in January next year. Can’t wait to see you.

05/01/2026

Our dear friend the talented Darla Summer made this for us to display in the Minerva Historical Society Haas Museum as part of their 250 Year Anniversary project. Thanks so much Darla for helping us display a little bit of our building’s history.

04/16/2026

Unique, lovingly preserved, and waiting for you.

03/12/2026

It’s a beautiful weekend to visit Minerva and freshen your home for spring with beautiful home decor. Get an opportunity for a $500 shopping spree in our three interconnected stores: Market St Mercantile, Real Furniture and Vintage Home.

01/29/2026

Our regular customers know about our fresh yummy cookies every week but now there’s another reason to shop at our stores often. Loyalty bucks! Every $10 spent gets a punch of your card. When the card is fully punched you get $20 off your purchase and the card goes into a biannual drawing for a $500 shopping spree throughout our 3 interconnected stores. Vintage Home, Real Furniture, and Market St Mercantile. Drawings are held June 1 and December 1. Can’t wait to see you.

01/11/2026

Know your collection.

A rare carnival glass vase just broke the world record, selling for $250,000.

A couple bought out a hoarder house to help clean it out and see what could be saved. They run a thrift store, brought everything back, and started pricing items. The vase hit the shelf for $25. Not long after, a customer who knew glass took a closer look and said it might be worth a lot more.

They were pointed to auctioneer Randy Clark at Dexter City Auction Gallery. The moment he saw photos, he knew exactly what it was. A Millersburg Peoples carnival glass vase.

It went to auction, where the winning bidder was Chris Sieverdes, founder of the Millersburg Glass Museum in Ohio. His $250,000 bid took it, and the vase is now on display at the museum. The sale smashed the previous world record of $175,000.

Why the insane price? Extreme rarity, the maker, and the color. Millersburg Glass only operated for a short time in the early 1900s. At the time of the sale, only eight of these vases were known to exist. This one became the ninth. On top of that, it’s cobalt blue with heavy iridescence, one of the most desirable combinations in carnival glass.

This wasn’t just an old vase. It was history, rarity, and perfect timing colliding in one piece.

And here’s what really gets me: the person who recognized it didn’t grab it and vanish. They told the owners what they had. That kind of honesty is rare too.

11/25/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate this weekend we are having a 20% off sale in Vintage Home and in our sister store Market St Mercantile. Please come in. Of course we will have free cookies too. Open Friday & Saturday (10-5) and Sunday (11-3).