Last week a blogger I follow announced that she would be having a hoard sale, a sale to get rid of a bunch of thrifted stuff she bought for her house but has decided she won’t be able to use. She included a picture from last year’s sale, in which furniture of all kinds literally(…)
This project may be the easiest one we’ve ever done (if you don’t count all the indecision and false starts and teeth gnashing that are part of the backstory). It starts with this blue bench: We bought it about a year ago from one of our favorite vintage furniture spots, Lounge Lizard. We got a(…)
So, when we left off our last post, we were looking at a bit of a fuster-cluck with our entryway gallery wall project: We had lots (and lots and lots) of art to work with, but none of it was really working right. Then we found a great new piece of art that had us(…)
When I woke up on Saturday morning, this post was almost in the can. It went like this: We knew right after moving into our split-entry house that we weren’t going to want any tables or coat racks or storage hooks in the entry. The space is just too small. We did know, though, that(…)
Right now, as we are beginning the draft of this post, we are looking at a living room that’s a little chaotic. Even when the Christmas stuff is packed away and the room is tidy, it will likely still look a little crazy. There might not be any painter’s tape up, but we know some(…)
I know the online world is all about Christmas now, but we’re still in Thanksgiving mode around here. (Next weekend we’ll put up the tree and shift gears.) And one thing I’m feeling thankful for today is a recent thrift store score of art that reminds me of things for which I’m most grateful. Thrifting(…)
Back in July, we wrote a little post about the wonderful experience of removing our bathroom vanity. We weren’t sad to see the vanity go because it was too big for the space and we were looking forward to a bathroom with some breathing room. We were a little worried about how to replace all(…)