the collected home
Some days you are just living right. I ran to Goodwill one day on my lunch hour and absolutely tripped over these. ‘Bout broke my neck on my lunch hour if I’m being totally honest. The price was great so in my Jeep they went. I had visions of what a cute pair of bedside tables these could make. But today we…
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This chair has been out in The Hell Hole for over two and a half years. I found it on a Facebook yard sale site in the absolute dead of Winter. It smelled so bad that I kept it out on our front porch in freezing temperatures for a week. When the weather got warmer a few months later I used a…
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I’m back this morning as promised with a few more photos of the ottoman I originally thought was a bench. My Dingbat knows no bounds. I may have to do one of these for the actual bench out on my front porch. Im really digging the look of it and the texture it lends to the room. So. Against my better judgement,…
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I mentioned in my last post that I did an ‘ In& Out ‘ at my Goodwill a couple of weeks ago and made a couple very spur of the moment decisions. Behold Rash Decision # 2. It was just barely visible sticking out from under a dining table and, the price was key. I didn’t even consider its height. I had been…
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I went through the South Asheville Goodwill last week like Sherman through Atlanta. I just had a minute or two to kinda scope out the furniture section…..and thank God I did. If Big Daddy knew I was even thinking about painting something that close to his Bike he would have a Duck Fit. Maybe he shouldn’t leave me home alone….. I snapped…
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Last Summer I was at a yard sale and spotted a pair of metal stools in the coolest color of vintage green. One was in much better shape than the other so I gave the woman my $3 and left a happy camper. Today, I am kicking my own butt for not buying them both. At the time I was thinking that…
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