Twenty Wool Throws and a Midlife Crisis: How Christina McGarvey Built Millcreek Manor

Christina McGarvey grew up in a dilapidated Victorian farmhouse in Petersboro, Utah, watching her mother hang wallpaper, lay floors, and carve her own four-poster bed on a lathe. Decades later she built her own dream home, lost her sister, her mother, her father and her uncle in a single year, and somewhere inside that grief started selling the things she loved on Instagram. Today Millcreek Manor fills a 7,000-square-foot warehouse with antiques shipped by the container from England and Scotland, and a 440-piece container sold out in one weekend. We talk about whether good taste can be learned, how she decides what to buy when she's making hundreds of decisions in a week, what she does with the fear when the bank account gets small, and why the only way into a business you were never trained for is to begin. Plus: Millcreek Manor's holiday market, a little piece of a European Christmas market right here in Salt Lake, on November 20–21. The shop is open every Friday and Saturday until 4 pm, and they ship nationwide.