COZY WINTER BEDROOM CURTAINS - and star garlands

I have long flowing curtains on our bedroom window all year but for this winter I did something with them to make the room warmer.

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HACKED WALL ART - recycling vintage objects

I enjoy taking unwanted and broken items

and finding a unique way to combine them

with another vintage piece to create a unique

piece of wall art for your home. Below I have

a few examples of a few of these projects.

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MAKING FRENCH COUNTRY BEDSIDES - using appliques on furniture

There they were sitting one on top of the other on the side of the street, two little wood boxes covered in banged up black paint. I was heading the opposite direction when I first saw them and had to make a u-turn to get

back to them. 

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PROVINCIAL CHAIRS

I found a couple of good chairs over the weekend and started painting them as soon as they arrived home. 

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GRAPHICS FAIRY COLOGNE IMAGE - french bath cabinet

I am always on the look out for graphics to use on furniture projects.

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THINGS I FIND INSIDE FUNITURE - ladies french kneehole desk

Every now and then something unusual shows up inside my furniture projects.

Like these curtain rods below. Now when I say inside I don't mean in a drawer,

I mean behind the drawers inside the cabinet somewhere.

Really ... how do curtain rods get inside a dresser?

If you know don't tell me it was a retorical question.

I've found a few Aussie coins and recently a 1965 German Schilling.

I don't assume they will make me rich but they do add interest to the projects.

Another interesting find was the post card dated 1919

but more often then not it's just someones missing puzzle pieces,

their discarded matches, a forgotten key, and quite often old receipts.

This one is dated 1976 and it's from England.

They seem to be quite polite when

dealing with overdue accounts, it actually says

"Fearing your account has escaped your

notice, we venture to ask the favor of

a remittance within the course of a

few days"

That was awfully nice of them!

Well now back to the project of the day ...

I know a few of you might be getting excited with these sneaky partial pictures,

but please don't get overwhelmed there is bad news coming.

A drawer that has dove tails on the back as well as the front.

Amazing what several hundreds of dollars can buy you huh?

Yes I spent a great deal more than I am use to on this one, but it's worth every penny in the end.

She even had a couple of surprises inside for me to find.

2 Golden Key Furniture Keys

I'm delighted with that little find, but now the trick will be to find a lock they will open. 

Now for the bad news ...

This magnificent, over the top, gorgeous french desk (deep breath)

is already spoken for, but you can see a side by side before and after pic here.

I know that doesn't make up for it, I'm a bad bad person for teasing you.

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CONSOLE TABLES - 2 different styles

I have been planning to do this kind of project for quite some time and really enjoyed creating these from recycled vintage desks.

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CLASSIC FRENCH - 6 drawer dresser

Today is a simple project,

but always a fun project when using ASCP and wax.

I used bright white ASCP and clear wax,

with a gentle distressing to the curves and details.

The six drawers work great after finding the right positions for them,

and a little help from me. 

It has classic provincial hardware and

fabulous solid wood cabriole legs.

Dove tailed drawers

Manufactured by Henry Link.

This chest of drawers also matches this cute single night table.

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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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OLD WORLD TRAVEL - vintage travel themed chest

I worked on making a vintage travel themed chest of drawers,

and it turned out amazing.

It started as a beautiful forest green dresser.
When was it in style to paint with this color.

Oh ya the 80's!

The entire dresser was scraped and sanded.

(disclaimer) NO STRIPPER (disclaimer)

was employed during the making of this project.

George was upset, he wanted a stripper.

I left tiny hints of each of the 3 paint

colors that had been painted on it before it came to me.

This added to the vintage feel.

The 3 colors were green, white, and cream.

After getting it all cleaned and sanded I started to

 paint the *stamps* on the face of the drawers.

It was all done by hand.

Before adding the elaborate brass handles and

 key plate it was stained with a walnut stain

and polished with finishing wax.

First I sketch with pencil a Fleur De Li, then went
over the outline with a fine sharpie marker.
It was then filled in with fat chisel tip marker.
The finer sharpie marker didn't seem to come off during the antiquing part.

You can see above how the outline
 stayed and the filled in part lifted just right.

The top was finished in the walnut stain also and hand rubbed with wax.

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