COTTAGE TOUR - video

Come take a walk around one of our favorite places. I have uploaded a video of our Kitchen, Living Room and get a glimpse of the new shelves in my office.

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COLONEL MUSTARD DID IT - reclaiming sleigh bed

Colonel Mustard did

it with the knife in

the board room!

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GEORGE TOLD ME I WAS HOT LAST NIGHT - slipper chair n ottoman

I started writing this post several days ago

just as something was hitting me and hitting me hard,

which I'll explain at the end.

I completed this slipper chair with the help of

my sister awhile back, that post can be seen here.

The purchasers of this chair also requested a matching ottoman.

Taya and Matt are a lovely young couple and repeat customers.

I had the matching fabric and a couple of useful pieces waiting for redo.

The question would be ... would one of them work?

Attempt one, was too small,

Attempt two, was too tall,

Attempt three, was just right.

If you look closely you might realize this ottoman was made from

the only salvageable part of another arm chair, with great legs.

I've been MIA for the last few days due to a case of severe strep

 throat. If you have ever been afflicted with this condition I now

 understand and sympathize. I couldn't talk, eat, swallow, and the

 worst part for me was not thinking straight due to a high fever for

 36hrs straight. After a midnight visit to the hospital and high doses

 of medication, the doc says it will take a few more days till I

 started to feel normal again and I'm still having trouble eating and

 drinking but I'm definitely back, with a funny sounding voice.

Sharing my fever with:

VINTAGE WHITE CHENILLE - reupholstered french chair

Earlier I showed the *BEFORE* of a little french chair I had been working on. It is now finished and ready to show off.

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GARBAGE WEEK, A SISTER, AND A STRANGER - french slipper chair

It started with an email from a stranger.

Hi I have seen your posts and love what you do. It is "junk day"

 pick up tomorrow. Anyway my neighbor has a credenza and table

 out. French Provincial style. Free for the pick up. If interested

 you need to come soon Let me know and I could get it for you.

Any ideas what we did next?

but those items you'll have to wait to see.

The subject of this post is about the next day

and my loving sister coming out to see what

 else could be found.

We had a late morning start, bad traffic, and a

 doctors appointment for the nephews we had to be

 back for, leaving us with only 30 minutes to scour

 the road sides for treasures.

Did I mention it was pouring rain?

She saw the chair first but we couldn't stop because of

traffic so it would have to wait till we came back this way.

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

Needless to say we got it.

I'll never forget my sister, 5'5 135lbs picking this

 chair up and running across the busy road before a

 semi truck barrelled past.

• dropcloth skirting
• white cord trim from a fancy comforter
• upholstery is from a heavy weight duvet cover
• double welting from the same duvet cover

I'm always buying new and beautiful bed covers. A lot of them
are heavy weight, good quality, and sometimes vintage. So when I need
to upholster something the first place I look is my linen stash.

If you want to read about the cute little table in the

 pictures it can be found here. 

Sharing this story at:
 

GOOD NIGHT - revamped beds in review

King & Queen sized mattresses were first

 introduced in 1958. The footboard above was from

 an older double sized frame so it had to be

 converted to accomodate the 60" width of a queen

 mattress. The headboard was a more modern

 queen which was then matched up to the antique

 foot & rails.

Most bed frames I work on are

mismatched pieces collected over time.

Here was a solid oak Georgian style

headboard just needing a new color.

This was our headboard before purchasing a new to

 us craig's list cherry sleigh set. George needs his

 manly man furniture around. I originally build it

 from a simple chunky type pine head & foot board.

 I extended the height & added all the great details.

I try to build the frame section for my beds so a

 boxspring is not needed. Due to the shear size I

 can only build beds in the summer when I have the

 great out doors to build and photograph in.

Old pine waterbed parts including those bookshelf

 headboards are perfect for parts to make new

 mattress platforms from.

This french inspired headboard got a faux distressed

 paint finish atop of a soft creme color.

This pine frame needed some serious revamping.

A beautiful designed headboard sprayed in white.

These designs are extruded foam a common practise

 from the 60's thru the 80's.

This final photo of a driftwood bed

is a teaser for my next post.

Stay tuned!!

Before that here are a few fun facts:

You grow 2cm during the night because your spine is compressed

 during the day and has a chance to straighten at night.

Your mattress can double in weight over 10yrs with dust built up.

The expression *sleep tight* comes from the 16th & 17th centuries

 when mattresses were placed on top of ropes that needed regular

 tightening.

and finally my personal favorite ....

Studies suggest that woman need up to an hour of extra sleep a

 night compared to men.

... probably because we are the ones tightening the ropes

cleaning the mattresses, and shrinking everyday because

 we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. 

BUTTON TUFTING MY WAY - tutorial

This vintage chair really needed some help.

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HOLLYWOOD REGENCY - pictorial

Thought I would share some glam

photos to inspire you.

Just love this lamp shade I found over at A BIT OF PARIS 2 U

If I walked anywhere in these I would need a nice chair to rest in after.

This will do the trick!

Thanks for stopping by and see you again soon.

*** Interested in finding sources for the inspiration photos used in this post,

right click the photo and in google image search use the file name listed under properties to search each pic.