It's a very cold, very rainy day here in New England. A Nor'easter is blowing through and the wind has been howling for the past twenty-four hours. I spent the morning painting the antique sideboard and petite dresser I told you about earlier this week. Can't wait to show you how they're coming along.
It's also a perfect day for homemade soup. My favorite is Sausage & Kale, not only because it's spicy and delicious, but because it's a one-pot meal that takes less than 10 minutes to ...
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This Week’s Finds: Petite Dresser, Antique Sideboard & Dining Table
This was a good week. I found some amazing furniture pieces that I was able to get started on today. This sideboard is my favorite. It's made by Widdicomb Furniture Company. While I'd love to paint it a rich blue, I will likely be a little more conservative and let its natural elements shine. Perhaps a dark stained (almost black) top with a white or off-white body.
It came with the three large drawers (which just didn't make it into the picture) as well as three small drawers on the top ...
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Cobalt Blue Pedastal Table
This large pedestal dining table was one of my first finds. Its transformation from severely-distressed, banged-up, brown-stained wood to this now modern cobalt blue is spectacular!
Here's how I found it. Someone actually took great care in making it.
A six-inch pedestal with very sturdy legs
attached to a three-inch thick table top.
As you can see, the top was pretty distressed and required a few hours of sanding.
Underneath that brown stain was some beautiful wood - pine I think.
I was ...
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Tall Charcoal Dresser – Annie Sloan Graphite Chalk Paint
A neighbor of mine was getting new furniture and generously gave this one to me to refinish. One look and I knew I could easily make it into a tall charcoal dresser masterpiece.
Here's what the dresser looked like when I received it. Stained & polyurethaned with a few minor knicks - nothing I couldn't easily sand down.
On the plus side, it also has 5 large drawers, a strong top molding, weighted turned feet, and all of it's hardware both inside and ...
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Granite Sideboard
This weekend was busy finishing up a few different pieces of furniture. Today I'd like to show you the beautiful sideboard I refinished in Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint in Granite.
Here's what the buffet looked like when I found it. There wasn't much detail to it but the drawers were well put together and it offered tons of storage. As you can see it was a pretty basic design which reminded me of the clean, modern lines you see in the furniture from Crate & Barrel - my favorite furniture ...
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Dark Sea Blue Adirondack Chairs
Being from New England, I always loved the classic look of two Adirondack chairs in the back yard or on a front porch. I had inexpensive plastic ones for a while, but they cracked and couldn't be repaired. Then I found these adirondack chairs at a yard sale for just $15 each.
Of course they were worn, weathered, and wiggly when I found them, but the potential hit me like a ton of bricks. The shape was identical to the wooden chairs I've seen for $200 to $300 each. These were mine!
The ...
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White Wooden Folding Chairs
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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