If you are addicted to HGTV and your heart jumps when you spot a “Trash to Treasure” find, you will love the “Cottage Chic” appeal of The Red Shed in Grapevine, Texas. Surrounded by chippy, painted wood furniture, interesting salvaged architecturals, and unique, one of a kind furnishings, Red Shed owners Valarie Jolly, Michele McKechnie and Michele Jones have turned a chance meeting and a unique location into the hottest antique venue in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.      The Red Shed began as a merging of business life and hobby for Jolly and McKechnie who also own Riverside Travel. They had been traveling for fun and business for years and became avid antique collectors along the way. Scouring flea markets from New York to Paris, collecting and creating shabby style, long before it was chic, they finally decided to sell their treasures from their travel agency storefront.

During the same time frame, Jones, who is a flight attendant, was also traveling, collecting, and perfecting her talent of creating faux finishes and reinventing vintage furniture and décor. Her merchandising skills and unique items, such as a vintage hospital gurney turned plush lounge chair, sold at various antique shops under the label “me & mr. jones”, and was long admired by Jolly and McKechnie.      In 2005, as the antique business began to take on a life of it's own, Jolly and McKechnie knew that more space was needed and identified Grapevine, with it’s quaint downtown, and central location as a perfect locale. They found and purchased a historical cottage and shed surrounded by an acre of gardens, arbors and water features. The cottage was perfect for their travel agency and the Red Shed could house their growing collection of antiques and treasures, but they wanted the merchandising to be amazing and wished out loud that they could meet “Mrs. Jones”. Within a couple of weeks, as perfect junk-lore would have it, Michele Jones was hosting an antique sale, Michele McKechnie attended, and a new partnership burst onto the antique scene.

The Red Shed is a little hard to find on small Church Street just two blocks West of Main in Historical Downtown Grapevine, but everyone who finds it, agrees it was worth the search!  Come be inspired by the multitude of ideas you’ll want to incorporate into your unique style.      The Red Shed is open weekdays from 9 to 5, and on the last Saturday, every even month, when the real fun begins. Ms Jones, Jolly and McKechnie create a rambling European style flea market, lovingly called "The French Country Flea Market". The entire décor of the buildings are reworked before each sale into jaw dropping montages. The grounds are decorated in interesting vignettes that are a feast for the eyes and make shopping a joy.