Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
Say the word “sale” and I’m like a hungry zombie on the hunt for his next meal. Brains! Bargain! It can be a recipe for disaster. Many times, my judgment has been clouded by a good deal. And it’s not until I’m home that I realize that treasure was really trash. But not this time. [...]
Don’t let the headline on this post deceive you. There will be no after photos today, despite the best of intentions. Just a whole lot of in progress shots since I didn’t quite finish the vintage buffet makeover that has been occupying a lot of my time these past two weekends. I picked up the [...]
I love the stories behind old furniture. When I bring home a piece to refurbish, I can’t help but wonder about the people who owned it before me. Sometimes, I find clues in the chips, cracks, peeling paint, missing hardware and forgotten belongings I find stuffed in drawers. As I clean and paint, my imagination [...]
The girls in the secretarial pool chipped in to get Mildred a makeover. She was a hot mess when she arrived for her spa day. A little wobbly on her feet, like she’d taken a nip of something from the boss’s secret drawer to get herself through the workday. Disheveled and unkempt don’t even begin [...]
After a long break during the holidays, I finally picked up a paintbrush again. It felt good to be putting paint to wood again. This fall, I picked up a pair of Broyhill Queen Anne end tables at a yard sale. For the longest time, I was stumped about how I wanted to paint them. [...]
What a busy and project-filled year it’s been. Biggest project of all? I started this blog. What an interesting journey that has been. I’ve learned a lot. Doubted a lot. Done a lot. Worried a lot. Changed a lot. Planned a lot. Dreamed a lot. Posted a lot. As we say farewell to 2012, [...]
Huh? Confused by that title? This is a post about what happens when I decide to “organize.” More often than not, it morphs into a much larger, more involved decorating project. Who’s with me on that one? I work from home, and I’m lucky enough to have a dedicated office and craft room. I’ve been pretty [...]
I’ve always been bugged by the placement of the thermostat in my formal living room. It’s smack dab in the middle of the wall below the staircase. Obviously when the builders installed it, they weren’t thinking about aesthetics. They placed it almost in the middle of the wall, meaning that when I hang art there, [...]
There was a time when I would have run in horror from a stencil. Visions of kitchsy country kitchens stenciled in forest green and mauve come to mind. But lately, I’ve come to embrace stencils. I’ve not used on on my walls just yet, but stencils are one of my favorite ways to add pizazz [...]
If you hang around here — or around me in real life — you know that I’m just a little bit obsessed with painted furniture. My garage looks like a cross between a thrift store and a paint supply store. Projects, paint and paintbrushes everywhere! Paint is like makeup. It can camouflage even the worst [...]
