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Treasure Hunt

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A scavenger’s heart pumps new life into secondhand finds, filling her Park Circle house with pieces from decades past

Photographs by
Brie Williams
Homeowner and bargain-hunting pro Hollie Wood in a vintage sundress and cowboy boots she “found in some honky-tonk place in Dublin, Georgia.”
A worn turquoise side table bought off the back of a truck in Columbia.
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An old sewing table-turned-kitchen-island anchors a petite and sunny cookspace.
Hollie found this discarded wooden sign in a trash heap along Upper King Street, cleaned it up, and hung it on the wall in her kitchen. Nearby, the dining area is outfitted in old iron furniture.
Blue Willow servingware
A decorative plaster fruit bowl
In the den, vintage books are piled atop an old paper cutter picked up at a flea market. Hollie’s coffee and tea services are all secondhand. “There’s an everyday purpose for everything I buy,” she says.
In the guest room, Hollie paired a “favorite dresser” she picked up for $30 with an old dress form and overstuffed armchair. As for the wallpaper, “The real estate agent said, ‘I’m sure you’ll tear it down as soon as you get a chance,’ and I said, ‘No way, that’s the best part!’” recalls Hollie.
A chenille bedspread dresses the 19th-century, hand-carved sleigh bed Hollie received from her mother as a Christmas present. The shades feature a screen-printed peacock pattern.
vintage jewelry (a beloved collection of Hollie’s).
Salvaged goods are found throughout the small dwelling, including these circa-1958 family photos
Upon purchase of her 1948 house, Hollie streamlined the dated living room, ripping up blue shag carpeting, painting over hot pink walls, and adding favorite finds like barkcloth curtains, a gilded shell-motif Italian mirror, and a leather-top 
mahogany table.
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