The Full Story

Photo by:Marisol Izaguirre

Hello Darlings! So, we kind of gave you a little summary of how we got started with our vintage rentals, but we thought we would give you the full story of how it all started.....

Well, when we first fixed up Cinderella (our first piece) our initial direction was to re-sell it. We went online and checked what other vintage sofa prices were ranging, on Ebay we saw them starting at around $800 and even went up to $2000 . Since we paid a total of $740 with all the repairs we were thinking we would get our money back and then sum..Nope! We posted on our local craigslist and priced it at $900 **crickets** then went down to $800, still no one called. Even though we loved the sofa and could have kept it for ourselves, there was no way we were going to keep it around with all our indoor dogs around it (two out of our three dogs are Basset hound mix so they shed terribly). 

Any-who, we started thinking of what to do with this blue vintage sofa....

We had some friends who did photography and thought maybe it would be a cool prop for their clients to sit on while taking pictures. We reached out to two of them and got their feedback, giving us a thumbs up. We then decided we would do a little market research (tried to put some of those marketing college classes to use). We pitched our idea to a wedding planner as well as other photographers who we didn't know in our area. Our little idea was well received, so it made us really consider renting it out, as well as finding more vintage pieces. Then we thought, "are there any companies out there who do this?" We found tons of companies that did the same thing we were wanting to do, but none in our area, so we decided to go further with our idea. We also had a 1947 black Chevrolet, fully restored, so that was also added to our start-up collection. 

Next, we decided on our name and went to register it at the court house and set-up our Facebook and Instagram pages. 

We contacted our photographer friend Marisol Izaguirre, and asked if she would be willing to take some professional photos of our two pieces so we could start promoting them. Thankfully she agreed and we offered a trade-out of our pieces in return for the photos. 

Photo by Marisol Izaguirre

Finally after three months of waiting, we got our first call........

xoxo,

It's Vintage Darling