the collected home
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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I’ve been looking for a new rug for our living room for months. I’ve loved the rug we’ve had in there for almost 15 years but my tastes and color preferences have changed. In the early Spring I began to work a few shades of blue in to our home so that HUGE olive green area rug just wasn’t cutting…
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My husband thinks I’m nuts. This is not news. Good thing he likes ’em crazy. I really like to use plates as art. He thinks I have too many plates on the walls of our home. I’m pretty sure Marian Parsons would disagree . I personally think plate walls are the bomb. Yet another thing my Mama passed on to…
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I have a longstanding love affair with drum tables. My Mama was a BIG antiques collector and I remember being at an auction with her as a teenager (I MUST have been being punished for something) and seeing one for the first time. Plus, it’s a cool name, Drum Table, don’t you think? I found my first one a little…
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Our living room has seen a few changes over the past nearly 16 years, but they’ve all been small changes. A chair swap here, a rearrange there and new pillows because they are the easiest. The mantle would change seasonally. That sort of thing. But the major players (larger upholstered pieces and rug) would always stay the same. Then last…
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The little update in our bedroom has really started a little fire in me. I’m not sure what has taken me so long, but I am slowly but surely putting the plan that’s been rolling around my crazy little head in motion. The catalyst? Well, for me it was this: Covington Fabrics Noblesse in navy At $29/ yard, I…
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