New antique mall opens with several Farm Chicks vendors

If you’re a Farm Chicks fan or just a general vintage junkie, you might want to take note of a shop that opened recently at 10611 E. Trent Ave., in Spokane Valley.

This Old House is a small antique mall that has more than a dozen vendors on board—a handful of whom sell their goods at the annual Farm Chicks show every June. The shop is open now, although not all the vendors have set up their spaces yet. A grand-opening celebration is planned for later in March.

Cindy Collins runs This Old House with Sharon Cusic. Cindy’s sister, Sherry Jordon, is a silent partner.

Sharon sells her secondhand goods under the name The Cottage and was a vendor at last fall’s Mad Hatter Vintage Flea Market .

This Old House is located in a modest building on busy Trent Avenue, just east of Trent’s intersection with Argonne Road. So it’s not exactly situated on a quaint, pedestrian-friendly strip of similar stores, but the space is bright and open—not cramped and dingy, like some might expect from an antique mall.

“We want it to be a happy place to go,” Collins says.

The building formerly housed a secondhand store called The Co-Op, which has now closed.

Some of the other vendors include Unexpected Necessities , The Nest, The Rusty Bird and Gooseberry Country, which previously operated out of a storefront in Spokane Valley.

Check out the photos above to see some of This Old House’s merchandise, then come back tomorrow to read more about Unexpected Necessities, a business run by mother-daughter team Kathy and Jennifer Walker.