We at JUNKMARKET pride ourselves on our ability to keep pressing that refresh button; always creating and recreating to meet the shifting demands of the public. We work on the edge of creativity, offering products, design, concepts, and ideas that are sustainable and functional. From traditional to urban industrial, our styles inherently embrace the recycling of trends, producing classic adaptability with a dash of comfort.

Our ideas provide an outline for design, allowing for personal integration. We believe in liberating individuals from the rules and regulations so many designers are partial to enforce. We cater to innovative expression.

Junk is for everyone and anyone willing to take a plunge into the possibilities for creative, self-expression. There are no boundaries in what we do. Junk is the past reintroduced to the present, and establishes a legacy for future generations.

Our exposure has reached the national level with much acclaim and will continue to expand, proving that what we do is relevant and current. Thanks in part to this emergent appeal, we have developed into what we consider the full-meal-deal package in design, offering a variety of different services.

About Ki & Sue

Ki Nassauer and Sue Whitney are the original JUNKMASTERS. They met while watching their sons play hockey, and soon realized they had something else in common; a passion for junk. They discovered that while others went to flea markets to find pretty antiques, they were the ones digging, scraping and crawling on their hands and knees to find the junk no one else wanted. But, then, they didn’t see junk; they saw one-of-a-kind furniture, whimsical accessories and renewed uses for recycled nostalgia.

In 2000, Ki and Sue started JUNKMARKET, a successful retail business that sources, transforms and sells good junk. Together, they traveled the country in search of junk to take back to their workshop in Minnesota for re-purposing. That workshop soon became a haven for junkers from around the United States who not only wanted to buy JUNKMARKET creations, but also wanted to learn how to create and style with their own junk décor.

Today, the JUNKMARKET hosts two annual sales that draw thousands, some coming from as far as New York and California. More than 30,000 avid US and Canadian junkers are on their mailing list. You could say these two JUNKMASTERS are on the leading edge of a movement that looks to their expertise.

Not only have the JUNKMASTERS succeeded in the retail business, the rest of the country has now discovered them. Ki and Sue have been editors-at-large and columnists for Country Home Magazine since 2003, and appear regularly on HGTV’s “Country Style.” They have made numerous other television appearances including the Today Show. Their book “Decorating JUNKMARKET Style: Repurposed Junk To Suit Any Décor” was released on March 8, 2005 and is available in stores and online. The premiere issue of their new magazine hit newsstands on May 2, 2006. They designed unique home accessory products that were sold at Target stores and are currently in negotiations with a national retailer. What is on the horizon? They are working on a television series and are sought-after public speakers on junking, transforming, and styling junk.

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