I’ve always wanted to replace our crappy kitchen ceiling fan with a vintage (or vintage-inspired) fixture. More specifically, a schoolhouse fixture with a wide milk glass shade. Simple, classic and it matches well with the period of our house (1930). I haven’t really tackled any real improvements in our kitchen yet. I didn’t even paint it when we […]
Archives for 2011
THE most comfortable chairs are now in my dining room
Our new dining chairs are here! And they coordinate with the freshly painted table pretty well (in that non-matchy matchy way, of course). Before Our old chairs were those ubiquitous wood Windsor-ish chairs that I’ve seen in every thrift store I’ve ever been in. They were not special and very not comfortable sitting for long […]
Photo A Day: September 17 – 23
I am taking at least one photo every day for the entire year of 2011, and I will be sharing them here a week’s worth at a time.……………………………………………………………………….. September 17 – 23, 2011Please vote for your favorite at the bottom of the post. The poll will be open until October 3. (And if you missed […]
Chevron kid’s chair (from a clearance find & a fabric remnant!)
I found this kid’s chair on clearance at Home Goods a few months ago for five bucks. There wasn’t anything wrong with it… except that it was ugly. (Seriously ugly.) And I do my best not to encourage the “princess” stuff too much. I painted the body of the chair and started to do something […]
Refinishing our “plain jane” dining table
I’m sprucing up our dining room and the most obvious thing that needed help was the dining set. It’s from my husband’s bachelor days and not what I would choose myself. The chairs are on their way out, but the table fits the scale of the room pretty well and it’s solid wood. Before We […]
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