This home and online shop illustrate the beauty of thoughtfully decorated interiors lovingly filled with unique antiques and thrifted treasures.

WRITTEN BY AUTUMN KRAUSE

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID SPARKS

For curator, collector and creator Kari Boetsch, the holiday season is a favorite time of year. It’s when her home and her online shop, The Collected ( the-collected.com ), undergo their winter transformations and emerge full of vintage Christmas inspiration.

“The holiday season is very meaningful for both my home and my shop,” Kari says. These two branches of her creative expression have long held a special place in her heart. For the past nine years she’s been renovating her Michigan home to reflect her rustic, eclectic aesthetic and for the past five years she has been helping others do the same with their spaces via her shop, which offers European-style wares for the home and garden. Kari has found the two have fed into each other. “Curating for my shop keeps me in a continuous state of finding new pieces and discovering new trends, which leads to change and evolution to my own style for my home,” she says. “I’m consistent in my vintage look, but its interpretations vary as I learn and discover different things that speak to me.”

TUCKED IN. The stairs create a unique little area that craved décor. As Kari says, “it was bare and it is right by the home’s entry, so it needed to make a statement.” She styled a collection of architectural salvage in the spot. “These beautiful rustic pieces from the past immediately give our new build Old World character,” she says.