the collected home
Y’all I ’bout peed my pants in the Habitat Restore. Fact. Here’s the catalyst Need I say more? I didn’t think so. Where I live library tables are few and far between. On my budget? Even fewer. I actually own two of them. One I bought at an auction probably 20+ years go and the other one I inherited from…
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I’m enjoying the extra space in our kitchen but I’m definately missing the storage that I had before I decided to sell my antique wardrobe. It’s been about a month since I emptied it out and moved it down to my shop and all of my crap is still sitting in boxes in the corner of my dining room. And…
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Contrary to popular belief I don’t always use chalk paint. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the stuff. But years ago (almost 27 to be exact) my weapon of choice when it came to DIY was a can of spray paint. And I still use it on some projects. Today we are talking about Latex. Five or so years…
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Nine and three quarter times out of ten when I’m painting furniture it’s for other people. This time I’m painting something for us, something for our home. Two something’s, actually I’d been looking for a pair of Napoleon chairs like these for our kitchen table for almost two years. Every time I would come across them (second hand) they would…
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A couple of weeks ago I ran through the furniture section of the Asheville Habitat For Humanity Restore to see if anything (in my price range) caught my eye when I spotted a nice sized dining table. I’m starting to really have a thing for these pedestal tables. Plus, there’s this: Pretty sweet price, but I’m still working…
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About a year ago I entered the Asheville Habitat For Humanity Restore Reuse contest. This was my entry: I fished an old spool bed out of someone’s trash and Big Daddy and I made a bench out of it. You can read more about that here: http://ajunkchicklife.blogspot.com/2015/05/milk-paint.html?m=1 And we won the furniture catagory! Nobody was more shocked than me….
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