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28 April 2012

My Attic Office

For the past week I have finally been working on my office. It's up in the attic, which sadly has no heat, so all winter I've been plotting and planning.

I believe it was refinished into a room circa 1955 - with that awful plastic paneling and industrial carpet. But no more! I ripped out the carpet, and just finished painting the paneling - it's already so much better:

The floor is just plywood - so I'm going to paint that and the window frames in gloss black, and I got some awesome black cube shelving this week that I'm going to put white baskets in. Hopefully I'll be done by Wednesday :)

I'll have more updates as I go I'm sure.

02 April 2012

Retro Kitchen Love

For those who are new to my little corner of the blogosphere, I'd like to show you why I bought this house:

Yep. It's GE stove from the late 50s. The realtor laughed at me when I told him to ask if they'd take an offer on it even if they didn't take our offer on the house. We ended up repainting the whole kitchen to go with it, and over the past year and a half I've been collecting all things aqua and white.

What I was missing though was cooking utensils. And then, like a fairy godmother, Pinterest saved the day.

I saw this pin from houseofernest.com:

Click the image to see the tutorial in full

And I thought to myself, Self, you can do this. I had Paint left over from the cupboards, and with a little tape, and many many thin coats of varnish, I am now the proud owner of wooden spoon that match the kitchen:

Oh, and a near complete set of aqua and white Pyrex :D

04 June 2010

Friday Finds: Airstream Living

I love Airstreams. Ideally I'd own like 5 of them and have them be all different rooms in a disconnected house. Of course that wouldn't work up here in the frozen north, but maybe down south somewhere.

Image by http://www.vintageairstream.com/

I've seen some seriously cool stuff done with the insides of them too - Magnolia Pearl - who I love btw - did hers up beautifully:

You can see the full sized pics on her blog, which is also amazing, here: http://magnoliapearlblog.blogspot.com/

I especially love the claw foot bath. In an Airstream. That's what I'm talking about my friends.

Personally, I think I'd cover the ceiling in vintage maps - like these from VintagePaperWorks:

Antique 1887 Map of Burma/Siam $10

And put up lots of lace curtains - I particularly like these from FadedGrandeur:

Pair of Vintage French Filet Lace Curtains $49.90

Since I'm not one for ott girly really, I'd probably offset the lace with more industrial fixtures, I love this lamp from TheDirtyLoft:

Industrial Metal Hanging Lamp $60

I know storage would be an issue in such a small space - but check this out from BellaroseSignature:

Vintage Greek Key Brass Mail Boxes $250

They're only 15 inches deep, which would be perfect.

I can haz?

30 April 2010

Friday Finds: Party time!

Okay, as some of you know, I'm off to Tennessee today to visit my dear dear friend HauteCountryVintage.

I'm so excited. If you'd like to read the background on the pair of us, the Storque did an article a little while back - you can find it here:

http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/etsy-love-stories-best-friends-who-have-never-met-7323/

All of which puts me in a party mood, and I was lucky enough to be sent a link to this amazing site:

http://eventsualitiesblog.com/miscellaneous/oh-for-the-love-of-gin-and-smoke/ which inspires my finds today.

Lekiah designed the most AMAZING MadMen themed table for a competition, and how fabulous would it be to create your own?