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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…
Our House: Wet Bar Finished!!!
Yay! The family room is done… finally! I’ve been working away on it, little bit by little bit for most of the winter. (I’ve still got a few projects to show you, but it’s is done!!)
I’ve worked on several different projects this winter/spring, from painting, to making a canning jar chandy, to getting a new sectional and creating a huge folding screen for it with vintage plantation shutters, making a new more neutral window treatment, and re-doing a table and chairs set I found on Craigslist, and installing a wide plank laminate floor, making a sign from old fence boards, re-doing a tennis themed folding screen, making numbered pillows, confessing my secret to an easy fireplace, and having a lot of fun moving around the furniture to create a sort of ‘Ralph Lauren meets 1900 Boy’s Club’ style room.
So here’s how and what I did in, what was once, this boring corner of the family room. click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House… I Really Love Handsome Furniture
Several years ago, my husband and I were heading over to the cities. We live in NW Wisconsin, just about 20 or 30 miles East of St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN, and for those of you not from around here, they’re known as ‘the twin cities’… but locals shorten that to ‘the cities’.
So back to my story…
We were heading west, and driving through one of the suburbs we spotted an ‘estate sale’ sign. Those are the best sales and even though we were a day late from the opener, there still were a few treasures, and I think we got the best treasure of all… click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: A Single Vintage Tin Ceiling Tile in the Kitchen
My friend was having a barn sale and had some pieces of a tin tile ceiling for sale.
I bought one and here’s what I did with it:
I repurposed it, and now use it for a click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House: Drastically Change a Vintage Fireplace with Paint and a Little Bit of Fabric
Can you believe it? The same fireplace in in both these pictures, and no structural changes were made… just a little bit of paint and fabric… and elbow grease.
Yes, this is what they started out with: click here to read the rest of the story…
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…
Five Days to an Easter Centerpiece, Day 2
Welcome back to Day 2 in the 5 day series hopefully inspiring you to create some Easter fun at your house. Yesterday I showed you how I made the ‘peat-pots-turned-antique-paper-mache-looking-planters’.
Today, it’s all about texture.
I love texture, and lately I’ve been occupied with decorating with texture, almost in place of color. So for this Easter centerpiece tablescape, I was thrilled when I pinned these jute covered eggs from Posed Perfection on my Pinterest Easter board for the inspiration.
So here are the eggs I made for the dining table at ‘Our House’:
The chunky jute gives incredible texture to the eggs in the tin basket.
I finished them with a vintage ribbon bow in a bright green and chocolate brown stripe.
In a nutshell… (er should I say eggshell?) Here are the simple steps to making the jute covered eggs. click here to read the rest of the story…
Ugly Frame and Canvas Painting Transformed into Vintage Bike Advertising
I had this ugly painting hanging in my storage room not because I thought it looked good there, but because I’ve been holding onto it to make something of it… sometime… well I’m glad to say that after, oh about 5 or 6 years, that time has come!
I have been working on transforming the family room in the lower level of ‘Our House’ lately, and needed some art, so I took that framed canvas and re-made it into something.
Isn’t the painting in the ‘before’ so ugly? It looks like a big tree in the background crossed with a mushroom cloud and exploded on the canvas… I have no idea where the artist was going with that, but as you can see on the right, I drastically changed the way it looked.
Here’s how I did it: click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Altoids Anyone??
I have just completed phase 1 of overhauling the lower level hallway and family room at ‘Our House’! And I’m thrilled with the results. I have tons to show you, but this post is about just a little corner in the hallway that leads to the two bedrooms that are in lower level.
We found this vintage Altoid dispenser at a click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House: Bungalow Master Bedroom
The other day I introduced you to a very sweet, young couple that has bought their first home in a vintage neighborhood full of charming bungalows. I showed you the pair of unmatched dressers and how she cleverly painted and papered them into a coordinated set. (If you missed that dresser re-do post, click here to see it)
So let’s take a look at the whole bedroom today, with before, during and after pics…
Well to start with, when they bought this house just a couple months ago, the bedroom looked like this: (minus the previous owner’s furniture)
It doesn’t look too bad, that is if you like lots of green stripes… they were a bit overwhelming, so off came the paper… be prepared it gets worse: click here to read the rest of the story…
