the collected home
A few weeks ago I acquired a nice little oak library table from my friend Ronnie. She is also the owner and my boss at Sweeten Creek Antiques where I have my shop. I walked in the front door at SCA and there it sat and I immediately began to drool. Turns out she wanted rid of it and home…
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I never thought in a million years I would have a can of soft, baby pink paint in the front row of my paint cabinet. In my paint cabinet the front row is reserved for the frequent flyers, the whites, the grays, the black. Now there is a little pint can of the most perfect, Ballet Pink from General Finishes. This color hypnotizes me. Fact ya’ll….
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I fell in love with barley twist legs loooooooong ago. If ya’ll recall our most recent new old kitchen table has a beautiful set of them. I don’t just gravitate to these legs. I feel an unbelievable magnet pull toward them. Todays victim $15 at the Goodwill ya’ll. So I actually found this oak coffee table about three weeks ago at my…
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This is how well my family knows me. Two of our nephews gave me gift card to Habitat Restore as Christmas gifts. Today I would like to share with ya’ll what I did with one of those gift cards. This antique writing desk has been sitting in The Hell Hole for several months while I mulled over all of the…
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Bid Daddy is really getting to be quite The Man when it comes to deconstructing old vanities. If memory serves this is #3 for us. This particular vanity I found on Facebook Marketplace. The very nice lady I bought it from was using it as a deck for her little girl and it was in really great shape. So I took a…
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About Three weeks ago I picked up a pair of antique side tables from a very nice young man on the North side of Asheville. This always makes me a bit apprehensive . I am not at a all crazy about going in to someone I don’t know’s house, let alone their basement. I watch ALOT of Dateline and 48hours ya’ll, so I’m…
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