Vintage Find: Locker Set

Drumrollllll please...the...locker...set! As seen in Parasol Magazine this old school, gym locker set is one of my favorite vintage finds. If I could marry the locker set we would have already eloped and had locker set babies. Yes, it's true love. Several years ago I saw it boldly standing in Father & Sons Antiques and thought...I must have it! At the time I was a poor college student, but I got together the $250.00 and never looked back...

Besides the locker's industrial look and functional storage, the details are the best part. Like the hand-scribbled text describing what each basket used to contain and the little bits of rust lining the frame. These details are the history, the story...I couldn't bear to cover it up with paint or sticky labels. Instead I left it alone and used magnets to label the baskets with my own contents.

I was excited to discover other locker sets were finding new homes too. Like this Atlanta home featured on Poppytalk. I love the color on the frame and their use of scattered baskets and dishes. In future awesome house I may do something similar...we'll see. For now, me and the locker set continue our love affair as it moves around with me, gets taken apart and put back together, and then lovingly stuffed with supplies.

{last three images via Poppytalk & Country Living}