Kiley Lee runs Eras Vintage, also known online as House of Eras, out of Macomb, Illinois, a McDonough County college town best known as the home of Western Illinois University. Rather than operating from a single fixed retail model, the business is built around the sourcing itself: Lee describes the work as estate-sale-ing, auctioning, and thrifting across the wider Midwest, and the resulting inventory reflects that hunt-and-gather approach. Furniture, lighting fixtures, home decor, and smaller vintage collectibles move through the business as they are found, restored where needed, and styled for resale rather than sitting as a static, unchanging showroom.
The shop’s storefront presence traces back to a location on West Calhoun Street in Macomb, with signage indicating the business was established in 2024, a relatively young operation still building its retail footprint even as its online following has grown steadily. Eras Vintage’s Instagram account has built a genuine community following, sharing not just finished, styled vignettes but the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the business: renovation and restoration projects, sourcing trips, and glimpses of daily life around the shop. That transparency about the process, showing a cabinet or armoire before and after restoration rather than only the polished final product, is part of what separates Eras Vintage from resale accounts that only post finished inventory.
Alongside the storefront and Instagram, Lee also sells through Whatnot, the livestream shopping platform, hosting sales under a dedicated Whatnot handle where buyers can bid on pieces in real time as they are shown on camera. That livestream channel has become an increasingly important sales tool for small vintage dealers who want to reach collectors well beyond their immediate Illinois trade area, and it lets Eras Vintage move inventory, from statement lighting to smaller decor pieces, to buyers who may never make the drive to Macomb itself.
The brand’s website, houseoferas.com, has been in a relaunch and maintenance phase as the business transitions its online storefront onto a new e-commerce platform, with a newsletter signup for customers who want to be notified when the new site goes live. That kind of platform transition is common for small vintage resellers who start out selling primarily through social media and marketplaces before building out a dedicated online store, and it reflects a business still actively growing rather than one that has settled into a fixed routine.
What ties all of these channels together, the physical Calhoun Street space, the Instagram community, the Whatnot livestreams, and the in-progress website, is a consistent sourcing philosophy built on sustainability: giving furniture, lighting, and decor from earlier eras a second life rather than letting it go to waste. For shoppers in and around Macomb and Western Illinois University, that means a rotating, one-of-a-kind selection rather than the predictable stock of a big-box home goods store, and for online followers farther afield, it means a front-row seat to the process of finding, restoring, and reselling vintage pieces sourced firsthand from Midwest estate sales and auctions.
Eras Vintage, also known as House of Eras, is a Macomb, Illinois vintage furniture and home decor business run by owner Kiley Lee that sources one-of-a-kind pieces from Midwest estate sales, auctions, and thrifting and sells them through a Calhoun Street storefront, Instagram, and live Whatnot auctions.
