Friday, July 13, 2012

New Kitchen Table

My dad made us a new kitchen table. The beautiful butcher block top was donated by a family friend. It was part of a display at a retailer where he works. They were throwing it away, but my dad trashed picked it. So classy!

We were inspired by this table from Crate and Barrel.


 
Our table is regular height, for chairs, not bar stools. The base is painted BM Black Satin and the top has a coat of Danish oil in natural on it. We love it, wings up or wings down!


Sunday, July 8, 2012

Living Room Update

Since I got married and my husband lives here now, we needed to do some furniture rearranging in the living room so both of us could watch TV comfortably. Priorities!

As a reminder, this is what the room looked like before:


That turquoise pillow you see on the couch is now in the guest room. We moved the couch to face the TV, booted the tree to the dining room, shifted one of the red chairs to the corner where the tree was and added some new tables.


I got the coffee table off Craiglist. It's a little too big for the space, but I haven't found anything that I like better, so it is sticking around for right now. The console table under the orchid painting, I built last winter. We needed something both skinny and not-that-long and I couldn't find any tables available that fit our space. I used plans from Ana White (http://ana-white.com/) and modified them to our dimensions.

I won the white and black pillows on a giveaway on From the Right Bank (http://www.fromtherightbank.com/) and the yellow ones are from Crate and Barrel.  The quilt on the red chair was a wedding gift, it's beautiful!

Once we finish the upstairs, this room will probably change again, so we didn't want to invest a lot of money in a temporary solution.

An Update!

It's been a while! For most of 2011, I was busy getting married. Planning the wedding was very time consuming because I did a lot of craft projects myself. But it was a lot of fun!

I finally paint the guest room nightstand. I went with grey to coordinate with the file cabinet that serves as the nightstand on the other side of the bed.


I made the shams out of the fabric I mentioned before. I definitely should have put interfacing in the edge, they are way too floppy. Oh well, I am not motivated to take them apart and start over. The turquoise pillow moved in here from the living room.

I got the lamps off Craigslist. I added a grey ribbon to the top and bottom edge of the shades to dress them up a bit. The knobs on the new nightstand are glass, from Target. I also added a design to the top of the nightstand for a little bit of interest.

Not too bad for a couple of bucks! Now my mom has somewhere to put her glasses when she comes to visit!