One of the things I love about yard sales is finding an old wooden piece of furniture and transforming it to fit into my modern home.
So when I found these antique folding chairs for just a few dollars each, I grabbed them.
One of them was stamped "Romania". They were really well-made with dovetail joints. Notice the beautiful antique hardware - which I did my best to preserve.
I loved the natural wood tone and really debated whether to keep them natural. They would be a ...
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Sidelight Window Panels: Blue & White Dotted Lines
I'm always on the lookout for unique, modern fabrics you won't find in most fabric stores. This week I found this vibrant blue & white, semi-transparent cotton. It's perfect for my modern sidelight window curtains.
I picked this one up at a home furnishings store - on clearance of course. It was actually a discontinued floor sample. I can only make 5 sidelight curtains from the fabric sample, but it's still worth it. With a little luck and lots of internet searching, I hope ...
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Black & White Coffee Table
I found this coffee table last week and knew when I first saw it that it should be black & white. At first look, it was a typical 90's table with a creamy-yellow painted base and a pine top that had several clear coats of polyurethane - which also made the top very yellow. It had a broken leg and some children's primary-color paint spilled in the drawers, which is probably why is was discarded.
To me these were easy fixes! So I loaded it in my SUV and headed to my garage (aka ...
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