Vintage House is a bimonthly vintage/handmade market in Chicago! We host two sales a month at rotating venues in the city. Each sale features 50% returning vendors and 50% new vendors with diverse offerings, so you'll never see the same stuff!

We post about upcoming market opportunities on our Instagram! If you don't have Instagram, you can find available submission links at our linktree. If no applications are present in the linktree, then there are no current open vending oppurunities. We post submissions every few weeks (usually just one at a time); the submission link will be open for about a week and takes 5 minutes to fill out! Applications will be reviewed, then accepted vendors will be notified via email. A waitlist will be created from other applicants, who will be contacted in the case that a vendor declines their acceptance

Please note that we receive around 140 applications per show, and usually only have 30 to 40 spots available. Don't be discouraged if you don't get accepted the first time around!

Our standard fee is $110 for a "full" space (usually an 8x8 or 10x10) and $55 for a "half" space (table only). This fee is subject to change per event, but will generally never exceed $150 for a full space or $75 for a half space. This fee is used to: pay for the venue cost, advertising, cost of the poster, extra staff when needed, insurance, cleaning supplies when needed and to pay Vintage House Corp! These costs vary drastically per venue/event, but we keep the fee standard/reliable. Vintage House is a business that files taxes like any other, and part of the fee pays its administrators for the labor of organizing the event. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! We love financial transparency and will try to answer your questions as well as we can.

Apply to each event! Even if you haven't been accepted yet, that doesn't mean we wouldn't love to have you. We get a high volume of applicants and due to our efforts of balancing returning and new vendors, it might take a bit to be accepted.

Other then that, be sure to fill out every section in the application! Note that if you don't have an active Instagram page for your vintage/art, it is very unlikely you will get accepted.  It isn't about follower account so much as knowing what you sell + knowing that you will actively post about the sale to get customers there. Vintage House does its own paid and unpaid advertising, but we also rely on vendors to advertise and get folks to the sales!

The following is important to know for vendors/is on every submission form!

-Vintage House is not liable for theft or damage to inventory

-Vintage House does not offer supplies for vendors usually (besides chairs) so only apply if you have all the necessary supplies! 

-Every event at Vintage House is completely different! While we have a large community of customers/vintage lovers, and our events almost always have a couple hundred to thousand attendees, we cannot guarantee sales. We will do all we can to get customers to come and shop your wares, but can't guarantee anything!

Please note that Vintage House is run by one person! I will always try to get back to you as soon as possible, but it won't always be immediately.

The Vintage House store is our first flagship store located in the heart of Wicker Park! We host pop-ups every weekend with 9 different rotating vendors.

The flagship store in Wicker Park mirrors the markets we host each month in the sense that vendors rotate, but our monthly markets rotate locations as opposed to the flagship store which stays in place! One weekend a month we will have the rotating market and the store will be open at the same time with different vendors!

We release applications for the storefront a month and a half out (for example, May submissions would go live in mid March). The application will be for the entire month, and you are allowed to apply for multiple weekends. We leave the applications open for one week, then let folks know if they are accepted within one week; we do not send out emails to inform people if they were rejected. Our goal is to entirely rotate from weekend to weekend so we try to not accept folks to multiple weekends unless needed!

The cost is currently $375 for Saturday and Sunday for an 8x8 equivalent space. This fee goes entirely to the costs of the space; our overhead is quite high being a storefront in the middle of Wicker Park that is such a large size. This fee will be open to fluctuation depending on busy/slow months and response from vendors! Half the spaces come with built in racks and half the spaces are entirely BYO supplies.

We do offer rentals of our beautiful space! Our storefront is available for weekday evening rental (Saturdays and Sundays unavailable), at a rate of  $150 an hour for parties or a 30/70 profit split for workshops. Our space is 1500 square feet and you will be able to use our famous analog photo booth! We rent it out for:

• Private shopping parties
• Workshops
• Private parties
• Pop up galleries
• We cannot currently offer the space for ticketed events
• We do not offer the space for vintage clothing pop-ups at this time

Below are the times the space is available:

• Sunday: Not available
• Monday: Available from 4-10
• Tuesday: Available from 12pm-10pm
• Wednesday: Available from 12pm-10pm
• Thursday: Available from 4-10
• Friday: Available from 4-10
• Saturday: Not available