Always Something New or Different

Every season I'm always doing something different to our home. I'm either rearranging furniture,

adding new decorative elements, or maybe even a new paint color.

The trick with this place is I am very limited on

rearranging furniture.

But I was able rearrange our living room furniture.

Better TV viewing and I feel a better flow as well.

So now I'm re-doing the decorative elements,

you know, where to hang the pictures now and how to arrange the wall art.

I want to hang our TV but before do that I want to make something that will hide it.

Since I don't a television an attractive wall art, that big black rectangular thing.

I saw a great one on Pinterest, I love that site!!

via Pinterest

 

What a great idea. I can either sew a pretty fabric or find a Tapestry piece to hang up.

 

And I saw this beautiful antique buffet on savvy southern style

 

What a beautiful piece, I love the scalloped details and the wire on the doors.

 

We have our TV sitting on an antique buffet as well

 

Can't see it too well but we bought this at a great price years ago and it has such pretty details but I can't bring myself to painting it. Maybe one day I will.

So as soon as I am done with the decorating I will post pictures of our new living room set up. This is the old set up you see above.

 

 

 

 



Kichen Before & After

We have finally finished, well, kind of finished our kitchen remodel.

The only thing left to do is choose a back splash, which is proving to be very difficult.

At our last home, after our kitchen remodel, I could never decide on a back splash so it was never done, maybe the new homeowners did something.

So for this house, I plan on not letting that happen again,

BUT

if only I could decide.

The last homeowners had their version of a backsplash,

A high gloss bright blue!

Kitchen cabinets that looked like came from a doctor's office.

Appliances that if they worked were falling apart like that lovely dishwasher.

Stove and microwave were done for.

The refrigerator worked fine but was so disgusting I had to use bleach water to clean it so we could use it during our home remodel.

At least they had a theme, they tried to match by going with a blue and white theme

but it all had to go, even the window, it was original to the house so was not cost effective.

Now the after:

Below you can see the imperfections on the walls so I need to cover that with a backsplash

We also had to add a light over the sink they didn't have anything there

 

Picture below, they only had the refrigerator on this side so we added more cabinets for storage and to balance out the space 

Pantry had bi-fold doors that when you opened them there was a cow them contact paper all over the place, not so pretty so we removed the doors and the awkward placed shelves and put in wire shelving and I sewed this curtain to hide my collection of food, I originally left it opened and after so many

"wow you must like pumpkin" or "it's amazing how you have every can facing just the right way in here"

OK, enough of that time to hide my food 

Found this print on Fabric.com

And my overhead lighting, sorry its a little dark but I saw this at Lowe's and had to have it

Now that the major stuff is done, I have to decide on the one thing that will finish it completely.

Will I do tile or wainscoting,

just not sure?!

 

 

 

 



Sofa Rejuvenation

OK, so we're back to this again!

I know, I know, trying to figure out what to do.

I've been trying to sell this set for awhile and had a buyer but she wanted so little for it, that I had to laugh, to myself, when she gave me her Best Offer.

So until I find a buyer for it, I am ready for a change and I was looking at some blogs and came across this beautiful site

Bella Inspirations

Laurie who is incredibly talented did a remarkable thing with a friends sofa.

It went from this

to this

she makes amazing things with burlap fabric and look how beautiful it turned out.

She has inspired me to do this, but oh my, what a project I would have,

I not only have a love seat to do but a large deep seated couch.

I guess I would have to consider the price it would be to buy all that fabric, thread and time to make it to see if it would be worth it.

How pretty it would look though,

hmmm!