VIV Home & Goods

VIV Home & Goods VIV Home & Goods is a store, a gathering place, and a community.

VIV offers an eclectic mix of thoughtful design, sustainable products, and heritage goods for the modern home.

Our pieces are carefully chosen not only for how they look, but the deep human connection they carry with them.When trav...
06/06/2026

Our pieces are carefully chosen not only for how they look, but the deep human connection they carry with them.

When traveling to Uzbekistan, what stood out most to me was the pride they carried in preserving something deeply rooted in culture and history.

You could feel it in the way they spoke about the details.
The patience.
The symbolism behind certain colors and patterns.
The responsibility of continuing a family tradition in a rapidly changing world.

It’s easy to see ceramics as simply functional or decorative. But after hearing the stories behind them, they become something much more personal. Let us help you finds pieces that will fill your home with this same sense of history, culture, and timeless beauty.

I am going to say something that will get me un-followed by half of Colorado, and that is a risk I am happy to take.A be...
06/03/2026

I am going to say something that will get me un-followed by half of Colorado, and that is a risk I am happy to take.

A beautiful home should not feel like it was designed by committee.

It should have a little nerve.
A little memory.
A little “I know this is bold, and I chose it anyway.”

That is where the magic is.

Not in making a room quieter.

In letting it finally say something.

Source pieces from VIV today.

06/01/2026

Some art asks you to understand it.

Diane Reeves’ work asks you to stay with it for a moment.

The lines repeat, overlap, shift, and return — almost like a thought finding its way across the canvas. There is structure here, but not stiffness. Movement, but not chaos. A sense that something is being worked through in real time.

Maybe that is why these pieces feel so at home at VIV.

We are drawn to work that holds a little mystery. Pieces that do not flatten a room, but deepen it. Art that makes a space feel more layered, more personal, more alive.

As we wrap up this month of celebrating generations, memory, and graduations, I’m feeling nostalgic for the beginning of...
05/31/2026

As we wrap up this month of celebrating generations, memory, and graduations, I’m feeling nostalgic for the beginning of my own academic journey.

For me, that place is The College of William & Mary in Virginia — the beginning of my adult life, and the place where the world first began to open itself wide.

It was there that I discovered dance, not casually, but completely. I spent nearly every hour in studios, rehearsals, and aching muscles, determined to earn my place in Orchesis, the college’s modern dance company.

And there were words, too. Long nights with coffee and M&Ms, writing papers on the English Romantic Poets, Moby-Dick, and Paradise Lost. Blue-book exams. Library books stacked beside unmade beds. Dormitory landlines. Ham biscuits wrapped in paper.

Life felt slower then. More tactile. More intimate.

When I think of William & Mary now, I don’t think only of a college. I think of a threshold — a place where art, intellect, exhaustion, beauty, and longing all intertwined.

That feeling still lives in the way I see the world, and in the way I built VIV: as a place for objects with memory, homes with texture, and beauty that asks us to slow down long enough to feel it.

May it be so for many more generations to come.

05/29/2026

I didn't go to Virginia to shop.

I went to see family. To stand in rooms I grew up in. To remember what a home that had been really lived in felt like.

But you know how it goes when you're wired this way.

The brass candlesticks on my aunt's mantel? They're here now. That particular pink of dogwoods in bloom — the one that has nothing to do with trends — I brought that home too. In napkins, in a runner, in the way I've set the front table this season.

There's a Laurel tree growing behind my Aunt Maynard's house. She didn't even know it was a Laurel tree.

This is how VIV is built. Not from a catalog. From a life.

Come see what came home.

Mix your metals!Laurel came back from Virginia with a bag full of brass candlesticks — the kind you’d find at your grand...
05/27/2026

Mix your metals!

Laurel came back from Virginia with a bag full of brass candlesticks — the kind you’d find at your grandmother’s house, slightly tarnished, absolutely perfect.

Everyone wants to tell you that metals need to match. That your home needs a “theme.” That if it doesn’t coordinate, it doesn’t belong.

She disagrees.

The most interesting rooms she’s ever been in — the ones that made you want to stay — were the ones where nothing matched perfectly. Where a piece of history sat next to something found on a trip, next to something someone made by hand.

That’s what a home with story looks like.

Come find the piece that doesn’t quite match — but makes everything better.

Designers! Your sourcing list has a new stop. 🧵VIV World carries artisan-made, vintage, and globally crafted pieces buil...
05/23/2026

Designers! Your sourcing list has a new stop. 🧵

VIV World carries artisan-made, vintage, and globally crafted pieces built for spaces that have something to say. Limited quantities, no mass-market overlap, and every item comes with a story your clients will actually want to tell.

We work with interior designers, builders, and design-adjacent professionals who are tired of finding the same pieces on every trade account. If that sounds like you, we'd love to connect.
Private appointments available. DM us or visit the link in bio to get started.

Real homes. Real story. 🧶These aren't pieces you grab off a shelf and forget about. They're the kind of textiles that en...
05/18/2026

Real homes. Real story. 🧶

These aren't pieces you grab off a shelf and forget about. They're the kind of textiles that end up in every room — draped over a chair, folded at the end of the bed, reached for on a cool morning without thinking twice.

Each of these throws is handcrafted with materials that actually hold up — the texture, the weight, the warmth. The kind of thing you buy once and keep for years. That's the point.

Not a gift shop. Not a trend. Just beautiful, lasting pieces for a home that has something to say.

A few of these are still in the store. Come feel them in person!

🕐 Thurs–Sat: 10am–5pm
📅 Tues & Wed: Private Design Appointments

Laurel here!I find myself reflecting on my recent trip to the South and on the extraordinary women who live on in everyt...
05/15/2026

Laurel here!

I find myself reflecting on my recent trip to the South and on the extraordinary women who live on in everything I make.

I'm half-Southern, the matrilineal half. My mother and aunt grew up in a tiny town in southwest Virginia, and eventually all of them went to school at The College of William & Mary. My heritage there evokes a whole spectrum of women: Southern Matriarchs, Beauty Queens, Iconoclastic Magnolias, Intellectuals and Teachers. Women rooted in hard work and education, family, and community. Women as the stewards of memory, history, culture, and story.

The rituals of a beautifully set table carry the echoes of the care and joy these women poured into the people they loved. Here is where I learned the power of graciousness — to make people feel welcomed and wanted.

I am so fortunate to hold these histories within me. It's my turn now to carry the story forward — and I hope you'll come let me share some of it with you at VIV this week.

📍 1833 W. Uintah St., Colorado Springs
Thurs–Sat: 10am–5pm | Tues & Wed: Private Design Appointments

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1833 W. Uintah Street
Colorado Springs, CO
80904

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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(719)3751711

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