I Put Together An Expensive-Looking Designer Home By Thrifting on Facebook

Stella Guan
18 min readJun 6, 2022

Learning to be relentlessly resourceful in the quest for uniqueness

As a designer, I have an occupational hazard.

Perfectly good furniture items on mass-market sites like Wayfair, West Elm or CB2 is not good enough for me. Since a few years ago, I have gotten into a vintage mid-century modern and post-modern aesthetic and couldn’t turn back.

The problem is, most of the items that are “good enough” for me are either no longer in production or extremely…

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