the collected home
Honestly, Big Daddy can be such a Big Weirdo. Like when I drag some crazy piece of furniture home and I don’t ‘prep’ him before he sees it. Today’s case I point He went nuts. I made the mistake of asking him if I could duck in our Salvation Army Home Store on our way out to lunch back…
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It is so unbelievably hard for me to turn down free furniture. You just can’t imagine. I can ALWAYS see potential in the piece when I very first lay eyes on it. Then, as I’m driving home I begin to realize when my garage door goes up I’m going to have to face Big Daddy. Then, doubt starts to creep…
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The overwhelming majority of the time I am glad to see my furniture pieces go home with people who fall in love with them. This may be the exception I am CRAZY in love with this chest. Fact Just to refresh your memory, this is what it looked like when I hauled it home. First things first, I had…
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This one is sooooo easy! I found this tutorial I’ve used twice now over at Jennifer Holmes absolutely beautiful blog, Dear Lillie Here’s the link dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-we-made-our-slipcover-for-our.html?m=1 I have an old ottoman that once belonged to my Grandmother. I had it reupholstered nearly twenty years ago in teal to match a chair I had. A couple of years ago I…
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We had a TON of stuff going on last weekend! Besides Father’s Day, we picnicked, had dinner by the pool at our dear friend’s house and basically burned the candle at both ends. In other words, a very typical Summer weekend for the Davises. There were NO good yard sales to go to near my neighborhood which was great because…
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O I have a little stockpile of smaller pieces of furniture that I’ve been slowly working through for the past few months. Particularly during the winter months when I didn’t have yard sales to fall back on for inventory or when it was cold and yuckie out and I just didn’t want to get out in the weather. This was…
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