the collected home
******This post contains affiliated links for your shopping convenience. These are brands that I know, use and love. Your purchase alls u stole make a small commission but your cost remains the same.****** This was 100% an impulse buy. Those sweet little legs get me every time! This is one half of a 1920’s era vanity. For as long as I can remember furniture from…
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God bless ‘um………people give me furniture all the time. I feel incredibly fortunate and blessed to be able to say that. My family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, friends of friends, you name it. It is amazing to me that these people take the time out of there lives to ask themselves, ‘Maybe Paige could use this?’ My Mama’s neighbor and our…
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Lord y’all. I am painting everything that will hold still around here! And Nantucket Green appears to the color. Today’s victim: I found this bench last Spring in the front porch area at Habitat Restore. I remember it being a good deal but I can’t remember exactly what I paid for it. When I find these types of benches I…
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A couple weeks ago I got a Facebook message from a high school friend about a piece of furniture she was ready to unload. So I asked for a picture just to see what I was getting myself in to and to make sure it was in my wheelhouse in terms of taste and style. The picture was a garage much…
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Last Spring I found this on a lunch hour stroll through Habitat Restore: The top had issues. I knew that going in. It is a well known fact that I hate veneer. It is also a well known fact that I love me some 1920’s furniture. So when I found this buffet at a pretty decent price I made a split second…
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When it comes to painting furniture my formula goes like this: Warmer weather = larger pieces Winter= small pieces Common sense really. I am pretty tenacious but I can not drag a buffet in to my kitchen by myself. I know this to be true because I have tried. Also, if I am successful at getting the buffet in to…
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