It all started with $10,000 in savings, a maxed-out credit card and a dream.

Amy Hughes started Salvage Style in 2013 — a small shop selling vintage furniture — in a 300-square-foot storefront on Baker Street in Maplewood because she wanted to try something new.

Hughes and her husband had just moved to town from New York City, where she worked as an editor for This Old House Magazine. After years of writing about antiques, vintage furniture and DIY, she transitioned into contract work and decided to make her side hustle of refinishing and reselling vintage furniture her full-time job.

By 2017, she had outgrown her space. So she picked up and moved into a sprawling 1920s auto garage-turned-showroom. But instead of the 3,000-square-foot space just housing Salvage Style, she founded Maplew

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