Things I'm Loving This Week...

Happy Memorial Day weekend!

 

In between the major bouts of rain we've been having I managed to hang up our flag bunting in front of our house.  There's still some planting to do (although it looks like everything we put in last year when we removed our old and overgrown landscaping is coming in beautifully)! I always try to get, at least the front yard, done by Memorial Day because the parade goes right down our street!

 

Other than that, I've been painting, painting, painting custom furniture orders and my house is beginning to look like a storage area!

 

Here are my favorite things I've found online this week. Which one do you like best?

  

 

 1 Fab Habit  2 Joy & Revelry  3 Sucre Shop (Etsy) 
4 Basic French  5 Schoolhouse Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Farmhouse Potting Bench

One of the things I love most about my little furniture painting business is the hunt for new pieces. A lot of the time I am looking for something specific that a client has requested, but sometimes I'm out there buying pieces that I think are worthy of a makeover.

[Project Notebook] Plants & Interesting Containers

I always get a teensy bit excited when it's time to head to the garden store to buy plants and flowers for our yard. 

 

We just made it there earlier this week and I  picked a pretty good assortment of herbs, perennials and annuals to dress up our space. Hopefully, this weekend I will get everything sorted, planted and displayed. 

 

I'm trying to go for a really cottage look this year and to me that means lots of chippy and interesting containers.  Here are some that I find really inspiring...

 

 

 

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Vintage Aqua Dresser

I can' believe it's the start to another week! This month is flying by and I've been super busy with all kinds of custom painting orders.

 

 

Remember that cottage, yellow dresser that I shared last week, here? Well, I got a second dresser the same day and it sold immediately to the next person that had been on my waiting list.

 

 

Vintage Kitchen Cupboard

So, I'm pretty sure that I have one of the slowest kitchen updates on record. Seriously, it was like a year in a half ago that we updated the light, by removing the old (and ugly) stained glass chandelier and replacing it with a drum shade. We also stored away our kitchen table (it wasn't really necessary since our dining room is just steps away) in lieu of a stainless steel kitchen island to have more prep space.

 

[Project Notebook] Inspired Furniture

I just love painted furniture (obviously)! The possibilities are truly endless when you are reinventing an old piece. One of my favorite things is to do is to add a bit of a bold or unexpected touch to vintage furniture.

 

Here are some pieces that I find particularly inspiring (and that I would like to try)!

 

 

 

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Updated Vintage Desk

This was one of those projects that seemed to drag on forever.  I totally have no idea why, it was just like I would do a step and then put it away for a couple of weeks. Has this ever happened to you?