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Someone Else’s House… Antique Craftsman Style Home’s Dining Room ReDo
The dining room in this antique craftsman is now gorgeous!
This is the dining room that belongs to the young couple of the home which I’ve already shown you the Master Bedroom, the Anthropologie Styled Bathroom, the Creatively Numbered Stairway, with the Amazing Closet Transformation, the Amazing DIY Wall Pot Rack, the Living Room Fireplace, with Horse Inspired Details, and now here is the before and after of this now gorgeous dining room.
The dining room has through the decades click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Details
Last time I showed you the fun before and after pics of our new wet-bar in the lower level family room at ‘Our House’.
To create loads of character in this corner, we built in new things, like the barn sash window and beadboard. But we also added in vintage or vintage inspired items too. click here to read the rest of the story…
Neighborhood Tour… Visiting the Pottery Barn Outlet!
I was in Ohio last week visiting my son, I shared with you part 1 and part 2 of his amazing attic reno project he did himself. While I was there, I finally had an opportunity to go to the Pottery Barn Outlet that’s just about 45 minutes south of Columbus.
I think there are only about 8 Pottery Barn Outlet stores sprinkled around the US, so I’m fortunate there is one located so close to Columbus. (if you’re wondering if one is by you, here’s the list: Pottery Barn Locations) and if you’re not close, would it be worth the trip? Well here’s my experience…
Happy Easter! Bringing You this Hope with Some Pics of Last Year’s Easter Table…
Happy Easter! Here are pictures of how I did the Easter tablescape last year. (Hopefully next year, I’ll do this year’s table)
Our dining room was click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Family Room Game Table Re-Do
So last time I showed you how I did the game chairs that go with this game table… I bought the set from Craigslist, purposely looking for a ‘project’ set, so that I could inject my own personality into it…
(and, like I told you with the chairs, darnit, I totally forgot to take a before picture of the set, but it was a 1980’s golden oak with brown vinyl seats)
Let’s pick it up from where I left off with the chair project…
The chairs I painted black, applied oval numbers in white and black and the seats are recovered in a dark brown and cream colored houndstooth fabric. (so, I just wrote that really fast, but the actual decision making wasn’t nearly so quick… once I had the chairs done though, I needed to figure out how I was going to paint the table to ‘pull’ it all together, and look like a set… it took me a little bit of creative thinking…)
I knew I wanted the top to be something special, click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Family Room Game Chairs Re-Do
This winter I decided it was time to do a major overhaul to the lower level family room at ‘Our House’.
Part of that change was completely flipping around, from one side of the room to the other, the TV viewing area, which now left ½ of the room basically empty. In that empty part, I had plans for a game table and chairs, (and will be installing a wet-bar soon too… future posting alert!)
When I started shopping for game tables, I decided I liked the vintage ones better, so I focused my shopping on Craigslist…
The chairs needed to have casters for easy moving on the carpet. I wanted something that was a project, so I could inject my own personality into the finished look. And I didn’t want anything that was too big… or too small… but just the right size… I guess it was kind of like Goldilocks looking for a game table set… But I found it on Craigslist and it was perfect. After a treacherous drive to the other side of the cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) on what started out to be good roads, but quickly turned bad, we scored this set: click here to read the rest of the story…
Five Days to an Easter Centerpiece, Day 3
Whoo-Hoo!
We’re getting there, today is the pinnacle, the climax, it’s the apex in this gripping 5 day adventure to creating an Easter Centerpiece…
Ok, so maybe not all that, but it IS day 3, which does actually make it the middle of the 5 days, so factually, it is the apex… I’m just saying…
And for those of you just joining,
Day 1 was how I made the peat pots planters.
Day 2 featured the jute wrapped eggs tutorial.
Which brings us to that apex we spoke of earlier…
Today’s feature is how I did the Mod Podge eggs. click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House… Antique Craftsman Style Home’s Dining Room: Chandelier
This is the dining room that belongs to the young couple of the home which I’ve already shown you the Master Bedroom, with the Wallpapered Dressers ReDo, the Anthropologie Styled Bathroom, the Creatively Numbered Stairway, and the Amazing DIY Wall Pot Rack, and now here is a brief introduction of this gorgeous dining room, starting with the light fixture.
The dining room has, through the decades, retained click here to read the rest of the story…
Master Bedroom, Pottery Barn Linens, Just Not a Messy Bed
I’ve been sort of delaying getting the master bedroom revealed on this blog. Mostly because I’ve really been struggling with making the pictures look as good as the room looks in real life. For some reason, I can’t get a good angle with the bed, either it looks huge, or it looks messy. And then this week I got the Pottery Barn catalogue in the mail and the bedroom pic, that by the way, looked great… of course, had bed linens that were slightly messy.
Source: Pottery Barn
Doesn’t that bed above from Pottery Barn look great? Yeah, I tried to embrace the ‘messy’ bed look. I wasn’t happy with that picture either. And the toile printed linens I have, even came from Pottery Barn. (maybe I just lack the guts to pull that messy look off, Ha! after all, what if you thought that since I posted pics of my bed messy, you thought that was how I normally kept it? Gasp!)
So instead I tried to get the same angle and closeness of the bed as Pottery Barn did… Read More of the Story…
Window Treatments in the Master Bedroom, How I Accomplished Form and Function
All of the windows in ‘Our House’ are treated according to what the privacy and light control needs (function) are for each space, as well as treated for the aesthetic quality (form). In most cases it’s difficult to accomplish all those needs with only one treatment per window. Usually, I have a treatment for the privacy and light control, and a separate treatment for the ‘look’.
In the master bedroom, the Hunter Douglas plantation shutters on the windows are on read more…
