Tuesday's Table Treble
fixer upper piano repurpose rustic table upcycle vintage
Look at this photo. Isn't it just stunning? This lovely table is absolutely beautiful in such a graceful and exquisite way. Piano keys sweetly nestled just below the crystal clear overlay. I spotted this on one of my favorite blogs Repurposed for Life - lot's of great upcycling ideas to be found there. However, since I'm on a bit of a table trot these days I came across it and just fell in melodious love. Instructions on building this beauty can be found here: Lovely Piano Table. Somebody make one - please - and send me pics. It might inspire me to...
Tuesday's Table Treasure
annie sloane chalk paint coffee table crate & barrel diy fixerupper furniture goodwill pier1 pottery barn restoration hardware rustic table upcycle
End table dilemma number 168. It's not that I can't ever find furniture pieces in stores; in fact, I discover wonderful pieces all the time. There are beautiful pieces but their price tags are just short of the balance in my checking account. In fact, they're so far down the road from my budget, that I can't even see them in my rearview mirror. You know the places I mean? The shops I like to call the Fantastic Four: Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, Pier 1 Imports and Crate & Barrel. I spend some time walking through their physical stores or...
Tuesday's Table Thoughts
coffee table diy fixerupper french country furniture pottery barn rustic upcycle
I'm looking for some ideas on a new coffee table for our family room. Naturally, I will be building one myself. It needs to be sturdy and robust - lots of feet will wind up propped on top - but with a classic rustic design. Here are some of the ones I'm considering so far. My first contender comes from Nina at Everyday Enchanting for Remodel-aholic and it's a terrific knock-off of a Pottery Barn table I've been lusting after for a long time but I'm not quite ready to pony up the $700 price tag. What I like about this...
The "I Want a Chair" Project
bargain chair diy fabric fixerupper furniture upcycle
The darling man always knows there is a project coming when I start a sentence with "don't you think it would be nice…" followed by something like "to have a nice comfy chair in this empty space in the family room to lounge in?" In Theresa-speak it really translates to "I think we need to fill this empty five feet in our family room that I've been staring at with disgust for a month." Let's be honest here, I think he's on to this. Of course, I don't mean "let's go spend hundreds of dollars at the furniture store". No. He...