Showing posts with label restyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restyle. Show all posts

2/16/12

Restyled Table

I found a little table in the deep recesses of the thrift store!  It had been covered in mismatched paint and hidden from view underneath several layers of clothing and accessories! 
"Why?", you ask.

 Because in this thrifty, the little table was being used in... a make-shift dressing room area!  
Next to it was a mirror and chair!  

Very convenient! And very lucky for me because no one, and I mean NO ONE, was looking under all that stuff for tables!  No one but me, that is!!


I grabbed that little cutie up, slapped it in the buggy, and headed to the check-out!


Along the way many stopped me to ask where I had found the little table!
Or the all important question, was I going to buy that!  


Well I managed to get it in the car without further questions!!

On the way home the wheels were turning in my brain... what to do, what to do! 
I really like the stained wood top look  mixed with shabby paint, but really this one was beyond saving for stain!  Unless I spent way more time on the make-over than I wanted to spend!  
So it was decided... PAINT!!


A lovely shade of vanilla ivory was used.   It was okay, clean, serviceable, did I say just okay!
Not happy, not happy...still looking for that stained wood look...

sooooo..
I painted the top in a rich deep chocolate color!!   
(Did y'all notice my use of candy colors?  Yes, the niece and nephew have been visiting!)


Now I'm happy!  After a little distressing, waxing and buffing, the 'cutie' is ready for her debut!

What have you restyled lately?

Have a Blessed Day!!  And see ya down the junkin' road!!


Jan

Partying with...

4/9/11

"Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey..."

Along the junkin' road my friend and me find many items that tug on the heart strings...allows us to remember long forgotten items from childhood...items that have been restyled, recycled, reclaimed"Gonna take a sentimental journey...to renew old memories..."

Those things that make me cry out...I spent many long nights on a "rotary dial" phone!! ("Looooong before 'texting' was in our vocabulary," my friend says)






Quilts from my Mema's...ahhhh the wonderful memories of pricking my fingers trying to get the stitches small enough!!  And now recycling old quilts for pillows! (These were in my "spot" at Encore Resales but have already sold!  Yaaaay!!)





My friend found this clever use for an old cart...


 (Elizabeth Ann's in Encore Resales)




Tables...beautiful old lumber reclaimed...


(Cottage Chic & a Little Antique in Chelsea Antiques and Decorators' Mall)





"Gotta take a Sentimental Journey...Sentimental Journey Home"  (sung by Doris Day)


Have you been on a sentimental journey lately?  Please share! 



Have a Blessed Day!!  And see ya down the junkin' road!!

Jan