As I look up to this week’s project, I realize that I’m always learning something new with each new item. This week was no exception. I learned volumes. We have a small room off of the kitchen which has just been converted into an office that would also serve us as a craft room. We found [...]
It feels like we’ve been searching for a headboard for a very, very long time. We have never found anything that we liked, wanted, or was affordable. The perfect choice was, literally, under our feet. Alberto realized that an old bamboo rug would be the perfect material to make the headboard! It’s a beautiful rug, [...]
One of our weekly rituals is taking the dogs to the groomers. Barney and Duff have long hair and being boys, they get dirty every time they’re outside. (Gertie, on the other hand, is a total gem [and short hair] and doesn’t need to go very often…we love girls!) Every time the boys return, [...]
We had a major snowstorm over Halloween weekend this year and the weight of the snow caused branches and trees to fall all over town. Luckily our house didn’t suffer any damage, but we did have a lot of large branches in our back yard. I decided to cut up the branches for firewood, although [...]
We found a great little table at a local yard sale a few months back. Someone had converted it into a futon by putting a cushion on it. Alberto saw it, and immediately came up with an idea. We could glam it up by adding a mirror to the top and transform it back into [...]
We keep talking about that garage sale adventure that we went on a couple of months ago and the great pieces that we bought that day. One of the things that we found was a very pretty cane bottom chair. The problem was that the cane bottom was completely damaged. We weren’t exactly sure how [...]
Alberto has been itching for a bench under the big windows in our dining room for years now, but all of our furniture hunts have only turned up things that were too tall, too deep, too narrow, too short, or too expensive! This past weekend while shopping for fabric (you can never have too much [...]
A few weeks ago while going through the local garage sales, we found a great tilt top table. In good shape, it would have been a beautiful antique. Unfortunately this table had seen much better days…edges were broken off, it had many deep scratches, a couple of broken legs and discolored stain. We actually got [...]
Saturday was a beautiful day in Maplewood so we decided to hit the local yard sales. There’s nothing better than stopping at a yard sale on the weekend! They’re always great for a treasure find, or two. And we really lucked out…we found six treasures that are sure to be featured on our blog soon! [...]
We’ve had two outside wooden tables just sitting in our basement for the last several years. They’re very functional, but they were so beaten up that we didn’t like using them anymore. We finally brought them up for our party on Memorial Day (covered with a table cloth, of course), and left them setup [...]
