Take a Seat!

I believe that a home should reflect who you are and what you love.

I want to share with you what I love!

Starting with my Entry way. I love all things vintage.



I love all things design and I loved studying historical and modern furnishings when I was in design school. I LOVE these pictures of chairs, they remind me of all I learned, each one telling a history.
This is how I decided to display them. There is no short supply of seats here!


I love to re-purpose old furniture! My mom gave me this chair, it came from her old 70's dining set. So I took this old chair that needed a second chance and gave it a make over!


I wasn't lovin' the sunburst carvings, so I filled them in with a wood putty. Sanded and primed.


I painted the chair a high gloss black. Now the little carvings are a lot more subtle and I love the country chairs juxtaposed with the modern high gloss finish.


Next I recovered the seat in a vintage pattern. This fabric, if you notice, has a little sunburst pattern in it as well.

I added some numbers to it just the other day, I felt like it still needed something. Still a little grandma-ish, but that's what I love about it.

This is another beaut that I found at D.I.

It was a gold and teal, so cute I just couldn't take a pic........ or I forgot.

Again, I sprayed it with a high gloss black.

Added a little topography for fun. (It's our wedding date!)

Now My Love has no excuse to forget now! (Not that he ever has)

Recovered the seat in another vintage fabric.

My 3 little chairs. I have something fun planed for the middle chair, I just need to buy some freezer paper and figure out my new Silhouette!

That's what I love! Thanks for stopping by!

(I also love these guys!)

It has a purpose again! Furniture Re-purposing.

Finally! I've been wanting to post for a week but could not find my camera and on it it held all of my hard work! It was one of those things that got lost after we came home from our 2 week trip and started unpacking and the once nice clean house we came home to was now trashed! So anyway, I found it, in the same place I had looked through about 10 times! Augh! whatever.



So I love that my husband one day, come to me and said he wanted to do a piece of furniture for his mom for Christmas so we hit D.I. and found this beauty!



I love even more that he did most of the work! It didn't have a bottom or a back but that wasn't a problem for him. He went to Home Depot and had some ply wood cut to size and he put it in..... unfortunately he forgot to get pictures of that part.
Oh, we also primed it with grey primer from Krylon. Love the grey primer! A must when using dark colors!
(great for walls as well)


(Sorry about the pics. It was dark out and the lighting was florescent)
My mother-in-law decorates with red and we thought this would be great in red...and it is! We used Banner Red spray paint from Krylon.


Then me, being the master glazer that I am (wink wink) glazed it in a black glaze.




Lastly, we took off the old brassy knobs and replaced them with these black ones we pulled off some old doors.

It was a hit! She loved it and is using it as a T.V. stand.

Mad Hatter 'Tea Time' Finale!

Hello there! Like promised I have completed my Mad Hatter 'Tea Time' and I'm ready to share with you!


Some of my inspirations!

Anthropologie Tea Kettle lights. LOVE!!

TA-Da!


HOW I BUILT MY TEA TIME TABLE:
I had a big clock on the wall, and small buffet underneath. I wanted to make the buffet longer, so I took this door I found at IKEA in their AS-Is section and put it on top.



Next, I had these wood scrolls. They're suppose to sit on a dresser and then a mirror would go in the middle creating a vanity. I painted them white and decided to do it on the buffet and replace the mirror with the with the clock.!


This is what I ended with! I like it.


I love torn fabric lately so I put some on the top.


Next I thought outside corners could use something.


So I added some ceramic birds!




I found this super tall apothocary jar at DI for $5, score!

Filled it with Tea Cups.

I had this cute chalk board.

Ok, so this is how I made my towers. I had this bowl and bought this crystal candle holder at D.I. I decided to hot glue everything so they'd stay but I could still reheat and peel apart if I wanted.

Added a plate that I spray painted blue.

Added more stuff until I liked!

Another one. This is crystal my husband brought home from Sweden like 10 years ago and sat in a box. This seems like a better use!

I love this tea pot!

LOVE!!

The finishing touch. It needed a pop of yellow because really, what doesn't!
Added some flowers to the pot.

And made this label and wrapped in twine.

took out the shelves and put in the pot.

This is an updated photo of what it looks like now. To see the Chalk Board Wall post go HERE. Tea time anyone?