Vintage Furniture Store Hop by Home Swap Stories
HOME SWAP STORIES is taking over 4 vintage furniture stores in Brooklyn for Climate Week. Join us for a multi-location event focused on the importance of taking individual action inside your home. Every store is open for you to explore the following activations:
Climate Cafe "Sense of Home" Listening Circle at Chyelle in Bushwick
Home Goods Upcycling Workshop by Brooklyn Creative Reuse at Big Reuse in Bushwick
Sustainable Living Live Recording at Brooklyn Vintage Company in Bushwick
Susty @ Home Panel at Again Vintage in Bed-Stuy
Climate Cafe "Sense of Home" Listening Circle
Gather round with CLIMATE CAFE NYC, the social home of climate action. Get help facing your climate anxiety and connect with impactful local organizers. Climate cafes are listening circles for your climate-linked emotions. The topic of this listening circle is "Sense of Home." Climate Cafe will help you transform complex feelings associated with displacement and injustice. We will start with a guided meditation to envision the best possible future. Together in community, we can make our home a better place to live.
📍 Location: CHYELLE is a vintage furniture store and cafe in Bushwick known for its cozy, community-focused atmosphere and unique, secondhand home goods. Run by Chyelle Milgrom of @fbmarketslut fame, it’s a vibrant hybrid space where you can browse and test out furniture while enjoying specialty coffee, design inspiration, and a welcoming social hub.
Home Goods Upcycling Workshop
Transform a secondhand vessel into a vase using discarded art materials with BROOKLYN CREATIVE REUSE. Not only will you keep unwanted items in circularity, you’ll get to fill your vase with flowers rescued and donated by TBD. Nourish your creativity and take action with your hands — no crafting experience required.
📍 Location: BIG REUSE in Bushwick operates as a community-focused thrift center dedicated to keeping usable items local and out of landfills. The space features a curated selection of home goods, books, and clothing donated by neighbors, which are sold at low costs to ensure sustainable living remains accessible to everyone.
Sustainable Living Live Recording
Go deeper into what living sustainably at home means in the greater context of the world with DEEPER IMPACT PRODUCTIONS / THE SUSTAINABLE WAY. Closer to the event, you'll sign up for a 15-min time slot to record a video that inspires action, plus the audience will quietly listen in.
📍 Location: BROOKLYN VINTAGE COMPANY in Bushwick is known for unique quality items from their mid-century modern furniture and decor to vinyl records and vintage clothing and accessories from various eras. The store is located in a former sewing needle factory.
Susty @ Home Panel
Get inspired by New Yorkers with creative sustainable living practices through an exciting panel discussion focused on finding secondhand furniture, creating your own food sources, and saving energy. Led by Yelle Belle, the host of HOME SWAP STORIES, this conversation features the founders and creators behind local zero-waste grocery concepts, plant-based culinary education, and environmental storytelling.
📍Location: AGAIN VINTAGE in Bed-Stuy is a beautifully curated vintage home decor shop that also features the in-house SUBLIME Café with locally-roasted coffee + espresso, handcrafted adaptogenic herbal beverages, and a food menu built on sustainably sourced, mostly local ingredients. Together, Again Vintage and SUBLIME share a core belief: the rituals you keep, the objects you surround yourself with, and the food you consume are all design decisions.
Food & Beverage
Plant-based food truck stationed outside one select store
In-house coffee shop within Chyelle
In-house coffee shop with food menu at Again Vintage
Raffle
You could win the following sustainable household items!
A TUSHY bidet
An AXIOLOGY skincare bundle
The BLUELAND essential cleaning kit
A HIBAR shampoo & conditioner set
More Details
This will be a minimal-waste, plant-based event. BYO cup, utensils, and tote.
Co-hosted by Yelle Belle & Marcy Arroyo
Questions? Email Hello@YelleBelle.com & arromarcy@gmail.com