Nice House is not a secondhand store -- it's what your house would look like if you had hired a vintage-oriented interior decorator. After helping to launch NYC's swanky W Hotel, former publicist Michael Doneff opened this home-style West Village shop where he rewires antique lamps and frames old photographs, using materials he finds near his parents' Minnesota home. The Midwestern boy's latest projects include glass votives covered in Japanese lattice paper ($9.95) and a retro vanity stool reupholstered in faux zebra ($75). But like any downtown pad, Nice House displays modern pieces among the old-school paraphernalia: sleek Finnish Iittala glassware runs $8 to $25, and one-of-a-kind ceramic vases from mod British couple Nick and Gabi Ward are $75 to $85. If you run out of space for your new furnishings, stop by this shop's in-house real-estate desk, the Rural Connection -- it specializes in large properties upstate.