If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I love a good secondhand find. I’ve done my fair share of shopping at estate sales and on Craigslist, but recently I tried shopping an online auction and came away with this little chest for my living room. It was a local […]
A New Job, Some Travel, and a New(ish) Gallery Wall
May 6, 2017 Filed Under: Artwork, House & Home, Travel & KC
Gosh, it’s been such a long time since I’ve popped in here. I hope you’re doing well and enjoying Spring! I have a new gallery wall in the living room to share with you, but first, since I’ve been gone a while, I thought I would give you some life updates. Part of the reason […]
Living Room Tweaks
November 21, 2014 Filed Under: House & Home
Until recently, our living room looked like this. And I liked it. I thought it was mostly finished. But then my mom gave me a beautiful leather sofa that was a much better fit for this room size-wise. I liked the darker color of the sofa in the room too; it seemed to ground it. So […]
French Chair Makeover
April 14, 2014 Filed Under: Furniture, House & Home, Secondhand Finds
I’m a procrastinator of the worst kind. Sometimes that gets me into trouble, and sometimes it works out okay. This was one of the okay times. Months ago I bought three yards of this buffalo check fabric to recover my dining room chairs and then never got around to doing it. When I found these […]
Secondhand Finds: Florida Edition
January 13, 2014 Filed Under: House & Home, Secondhand Finds, Travel & KC
I said I had learned my lesson about buying heavy things while traveling. But the week after Christmas we visited my parents in Florida and my mom took me to an antique mall near where they live. When I spotted this lamp I knew I couldn’t leave it behind. I fell hard for the colors and the […]
Pin ItCreating a Family Photo Wall
November 4, 2013 Filed Under: Artwork, House & Home
Sometime during the 1930’s, my grandfather, his ten siblings, and his father sat for a portrait at a Kansas City studio. They weren’t a wealthy family – they were just a few years off of their western Kansas farm and several of them were working in the Kansas City packing houses – so I’m not […]
Pin ItGiving a Chair New Life…Finally!
October 30, 2013 Filed Under: Furniture, House & Home
Does it seem like reupholsterers are less common today than they once were? My mom had a good one, but he was outside of town and only came in every few months. I guess not as many people reupholster furniture as they once did. But for a while – actually quite a while – I […]
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