10/19/2026
✨ MEET THE COLLECTIVE ✨
I’m so excited to introduce you to Brooke Franklin of Well Traveled Interiors & Design! Brooke is a dear friend of mine and one of the most creative and talented people I know. She has an incredible eye for beautiful, timeless treasures, a heart for all things with a story, and let me tell you, she’s hands down one of the best pickers I’ve ever seen!
Brooke brings so much creativity, warmth, and beautiful style to Southern Vintage Collective, and I’m thrilled to have her as part of our vendor family💚
Hi, I’m Brooke Franklin, the heart and creative soul behind Well Traveled Interiors & Design.
I’ve always believed the most beautiful spaces aren’t decorated—they’re collected.
My love of all things old actually began with vintage books. There was something about holding a book that had lived a life before it ever found its way into my hands—the worn covers, aged pages, beautiful bindings, and the mystery of where it had been and who had loved it before me. I think that’s where I first fell in love with the idea that old things don’t lose their beauty with time. They gain a story.
From there, that love grew into worn leather, beautiful architecture, tarnished brass, timeworn wood, old paintings, and those one-of-a-kind pieces that make you stop in your tracks because somehow, for reasons you can’t quite explain, they speak to you.
That’s the heart behind Well Traveled Interiors & Design.
I love finding the forgotten, the overlooked, and the unexpected and imagining what it could become. Sometimes that means giving an old piece new life. Sometimes it means creating an entire room around one beautiful find. And sometimes, I swear, the perfect piece finds you—as though it has been waiting all along for the person who would recognize its beauty.
For me, decorating has never been about following trends or making everything perfect. It’s about creating spaces that feel collected, layered, lived in, and deeply personal. A home should tell your story. It should hold things that remind you where you’ve been, who you love, and what moves your soul.
My inspiration comes from everywhere—old houses and beautiful architecture, the pages of a good book, places traveled and places still dreamed of, history, art, and the simple beauty of things made to last.
And while so much of what I create may look like a reflection of me, I know where it truly comes from. God gets the credit for all of it. Every bit of creativity, every vision, every door that has opened, and every beautiful thing I’ve been fortunate enough to bring to life began with a gift He gave me. I’m simply grateful that I get to use it.
Well Traveled Interiors & Design is my love letter to beautiful things with a story—and to the belief that a home, just like life itself, becomes more special when it is filled with things that hold meaning.
I believe the right pieces have a way of finding us. And when something truly touches your soul, you don’t simply find a place for it.
You build a story around it.
