New Antiquity

New Antiquity Full-Service Design Build Firm providing artful creations and spaces for the home, garden, & soul. Please enjoy our combined sense of
practicality and whimsy.

New Antiquity is Sarah Bader and Matt Rink, newlywed, artist/builders marrying their love of art and the home. We offer one-of-a-kind, finely crafted pieces, handmade in our studio apartment in Connecticut. All our creations are built and designed with clever details and fine craftsmanship. BLOG >>> http://thenewantiquity.wordpress.com/

In the Guilford House, the vanity was designed and built as a contemporary interpretation of a traditional washstand.We ...
06/22/2026

In the Guilford House, the vanity was designed and built as a contemporary interpretation of a traditional washstand.

We are replicating this historic typology not as nostalgia, but as continuity, because its purpose still applies to modern life. The washstand was originally a simple, essential object, a basin, a surface, and a place for daily ritual. It existed to support care, routine, and intimacy within the home, without excess or spectacle.

In reworking it, we return to that clarity and give it permanence. The proportions remain modest and human. The gestures remain restrained. But the construction, materiality, and integration into this space allow it to endure in a way the original movable form could not.

The result is a piece that feels both familiar and quietly resolved, an object that belongs to daily life not because it references the past, but because its purpose has never stopped being relevant.

At New Antiquity, this is where we find meaning, in carrying forward forms that still serve how we live today.

Is there a custom vanity or historic form you’d like reimagined for your home? We’d love to discuss it.

04/29/2026

What began as a tight, awkward space, a kitchen that asked you to work around it, has been transformed into a place that finally moves with life.
We listened, pulled it apart, and built with intention. It unfolded into something far more generous than first appeared.
Now it breathes, it flows, it holds the rhythm of daily life the way it was meant to.
What once felt limiting now feels expansive. What once felt ordinary now feels quietly extraordinary.
Every home has a rhythm it’s meant to follow, sometimes it just needs to be reimagined.



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An entryway is an embrace that gathers you in, a transition that moves you gently into belonging. The millwork sets the ...
04/15/2026

An entryway is an embrace that gathers you in, a transition that moves you gently into belonging. The millwork sets the tone before anything else is chosen, its profiles, shadows, and proportions already speaking of craft that feels older than the room itself. From there, paint is not an addition but an extension of that same grammar, drawn out of the joinery as if it were always there, waiting to be revealed. Choosing William Morris wallpaper aligns with this language, in a historic house, it never feels like a choice at all, more like something already written into the bones of the place. As if the walls remember it, and you’ve simply arrived in time to agree.

What does your home feel like the moment you step inside?

Design & Millwork: New Antiquity
Photography: Cassanola Photography

✨Beauty should live in the spaces where life passes most often.✨Every cabinet, every drawer, every detail is carefully d...
04/01/2026

✨Beauty should live in the spaces where life passes most often.✨

Every cabinet, every drawer, every detail is carefully designed to feel built for the home, not just the kitchen or space it inhabits. Our millwork for our Shaker Kitchen blends historic inspiration with modern functionality, creating spaces that are as beautiful as they are enduring.

Each piece is shaped with intention, honoring the stories a home has held and those yet to unfold.

Every home fosters a story, what is your home saying?



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In a home standing since 1762, every decision carries weight. Renovation is more than updating or maintenance, it become...
03/31/2026

In a home standing since 1762, every decision carries weight. Renovation is more than updating or maintenance, it becomes an act of remembrance.
In this Guilford, Connecticut project, each space was approached with a dual understanding, functionality for the family who inhabits it, but also as an intimate conversation with the past. Color, especially, is not a matter of trend but authenticity.
Grounded in a deep respect for early American interiors and the materials that defined them, we delved into the task of selecting our paints. Hues that belong to a bygone era, at once subtle and alive, long-settled, catching the light with the softened richness of aged paint, wrapping around corners, down corridors, winking with guile in darkened spaces.
In the kitchen, BM Golden Chalice was chosen, a rich yellow-green reflecting the warmth of historic ochres and earth-based pigments commonly found in 18th-century homes, tones that were both practical and luminous in spaces centered around daily work and gathering.
The powder room is enveloped in FB Tanner’s Brown, a color rooted in the tradition of natural umbers and tannin-rich dyes, deep, quietly refined and somehow, paired with a floral wallpaper and an amber furniture-form vanity, provocative.
The mudroom, utilizing BM Tate Olive, draws from the lineage of early American greens, colors originally derived from copper-based pigments and botanical sources, chosen for their durability and connection to the surrounding landscape.
Wood was left natural or mimicking natural oxidization, honoring the way finishes evolve over time rather than imposing an artificial uniformity.
Even the vanity reflects this philosophy, modeled after a primitive side table with porcelain bowl and pitcher, referencing a time when form followed ritual and necessity before modern plumbing.
Historical accuracy is not about strict imitation, it’s about understanding intent, material, and use. Each choice results in a home that doesn’t just look appropriate, it feels inevitable, as if every color, surface, and furnishing had been evolving over centuries, destined to continue to age for generations to come.
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Woodbury, CT
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