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Friday, March 23, 2012

Vintage Inspiration #81 Looks like Spring

More fun Spring Inspiration photos from Leola's...

But before we get started I wanted to share a little public service announcement. Debbie at Debbie-doos has moved to Wordpress and she's not showing up on a lot of people's bloglists, mine included. If you're a friend and follower of our gal Debbie, then please manually put her new address on your bloglist. www.debbie-debbiedoos.com that should do it.

Thanks bunches...

Hey...How cute is this birdcage...?

with the bird perched outside!

Love the green potting bench

Chalk painted flower pots

this white cabinet is calling my name

wonderful day bed with great 30's embroidered pillow and linens

OK, so let's see what you all were doing last week

Kathy from Creative Home Expressions found a great little terrarium

and modified it to be a Pottery Barn look alike.

Don't you love the cabinet it's setting on?

In honor of St. Patrick's Day Sherry from Back 2 Vintage

shared some of her Irish Belleek China pieces.

Jann from Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson

has a pediment mirror on a wonderful shelf that I LOVE!!

Susan from Evelyn and Rose

has been making hearts with red embroidery.

ooooh, and they are also filled with lavender.

and Becky from Generation to Generation

created a wonderful new lampshade out of an old grainsack!

I'd love to have you come and link up all your Easter Decor

on Easter Weekend

Please link up anything "Vintage or vintage inspired".

And to be featured you must have a visible link within your post.

This Vintage Inspiration is sponsored by a wonderful new sponsor,

Leslie Janson

Be sure and check in Saturday as I start a Give Away from her Etsy Shop

you won't want to miss it!

I'll be linking up with my weekend party gals:

French Country Cottage for Feather Your Nest

At the Picket Fence for Inspiration Friday

Stuff and Nonsense for Fridays Unfolded

2805 for Potpourri Friday

Redoux at Redoux Interiors

Home Sweet Home at the Charm of Home

So let's see what you've been inspired by this week!

xoxo,

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Spring Whites

This week I'm going to try to share the rest of my photos from Leola's Vintage Home and Garden Spring Open House. They're too much fun for you to miss. So if you don't mind, you may be on a little "overload". Today I want to do some of the Spring Whites for you. I never get tired of seeing all their great ideas and displays. Here goes...

see ya tomorrow for

I'm linking up with the always inspiring White Wednesday

at Faded Charm, thanks Kathleen!

xoxo,

Master Bedroom Paint Reveal

I can safely say that I am no longer embarrassed to share photos of my Master Bedroom. Not only am I not embarrassed, I'm really happy with the way it looks. The new taupe paint really hit the nail on the head. Just what I was hoping for, even though it took me several days of hard work to find it.

It's not too dark, not too light,

just right, as Goldilocks would say!

Now the gold paint doesn't overwhelm the room with color,

but the taupe lets the rest of the color and pattern balance out.

Nothing is overpowering now...

I even like the goldy-brassy accents.

They highlight the room without clashing.

I changed up my llittle gallery areas, using some "new" old prints.

The pics aren't very good,

I should have been using my tripod.

It's still hard to take good photos in here.

Now my attempt to shake up the space with a sunburst mirror

does what I wanted it to do...look a little modern and stylish.

This area really is my favorite now with the old stacked suitcases

and the little French painted table with hat boxes.

I bought this table about 4 years ago from a good friend

that I shared a space with.

The painted scene has chipped and faded

but if you look closely it still has lots of frenchy charm.

I'll get better photos of this someday

when I can move it to another place with better lighting.

There's a little balcony off the french door here.

I made the tapestry pillow last Fall and still have a lot of the fabric left. I need one more for my Dining Room church pew. I bought the vanity wicker bench from Pier 1 years ago and painted it out in Expresso. A faux mink throw is the seat cushion.

So just in case you didn't see the before photos here are a couple.

Ohmygosh, get your sunglasses on!

I'm thinking about some kind of valance for the blinds, but I want to make sure it's not so dated as what I had before, something more organic, like a heavy off white linen, maybe in a faux Roman Shade. I'm looking...

I think the best thing to come out of this, besides it's so much lighter and brighter is that I really do love my wood furniture now. Before it was all too dark and dreary in there. Now the furniture has some contrast to the walls not being overpowered by them.

(Paint is Stone Hearth at 125% by Benjamin Moore)

Actually the paint is just a bit darker than it reads in these photos.

I had to lighten them up in my photo editor.

I'll be linking up with these fun parties this week:

Picture Perfect Room Reveal at Funky Junk

Table Top Tuesday at A Stroll thru Life

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm

Tuesdays Treasures at My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

Primp Your Stuff at Primp

What's it Wednesday at Ivy and Elephants

Knick of Time Tuesday

Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style