Happy Friday! We are expecting guests this weekend and I have been scurrying around and sprucing things up. While doing so, the details of my home’s light fixtures, pillows, fabrics and accessories caught my attention. I noticed a definite theme – lots of nature-inspired detail, colorful textured fabrics, pretty trim and hand wrought gilded and painted metal lighting and accessories. […]
Seven years ago we brought home a white furry bundle of pure joy and it has been seven years since our home was adorned with a decorated Christmas tree. All of our ornaments that have been collected throughout the years, along with the memories I have of each, stay tucked away for safekeeping in the attic space above […]
The rush of excitement I experienced as a result of my first furniture painting (re)style project (described in my post A Fresh Coat of Paint for the New Year) has ignited my creative spirit and spurred in me a desire to do more with my paint brushes, paint and wax. I am intrigued by the idea of (re)styling and (re)newing antique furniture to […]
For the past several years I have obsessed and ruminated over what to do about the chairs around my dining room table. Too well made to throw out and orphaned from a previous formal dining table I decided their looks would improve with a fresh coat of paint. For those of you who follow this blog, […]