You know how when you’ve been blogging about makeovers for several years, and you’ve written something like 2,700 posts, and you realize one day that you’re currently writing about a project you already wrote about? That never happens to me. Well, almost never. Until today.
I was staring at this fireplace from Jamie at So Much Better with Age, thinking how familiar it all seemed, then I realized that I actually featured it way back in 2013. That’s like two hundred years in blog years. So, you probably don’t even remember it. Everybody’s attention spans are so short nowadays anyway. We’re like goldfish. I’ve already stopped and had two snacks since I began writing this paragraph. You probably already forgot where you are.
Well, you are at Better After, a blog all about makeovers! Here is a living room makeover that you’ve never ever seen before. Enjoy! You are at Better After, by the way!
I stared at that picture over the fireplace for a long time, thinking it was a woman walking dramatically in a cape and a pointed hat, until I realized it is actually a seashell.
22 Comments
kellee
January 15, 2015 at 1:00 PMI laughed out loud at your last comment!
Dharma
January 15, 2015 at 1:10 PMThe seashell. Totally thought the same thing, is that weird or are we meant to be?
Kathy
January 15, 2015 at 1:11 PMI thought it was a clown with batwings!
D P
January 15, 2015 at 1:20 PMFunny funny posy. I totally see the woman in the hat.
Kaylee Coles
January 15, 2015 at 1:38 PMYep… definitely thought it was a large women with a cape and her arms thrown out dramatically.
Riley
January 15, 2015 at 2:49 PMMe, too, with the seashell thing. That picture needs to be rotated 90 degrees.
laura@top this top that
January 15, 2015 at 2:58 PMyou are too funny!
Havok
January 15, 2015 at 3:55 PMLove the bench/coffee table! Put your remotes on it, and use it as a footstool at the same time…win/win!
Melanie
January 15, 2015 at 4:14 PMSeashell? Nah, it’s totally a woman in a cape an hat! It just needs the detail brought out a little:
(Here’s hoping the image shows up, I don’t know what I’m doing.)
Melanie
January 15, 2015 at 4:19 PMNope, guess not. 😉
I hate to waste all those minutes of Photoshopping though, so here’s a link… which will hopefully work better than my image posting attempt.
http://s653.photobucket.com/user/thethornandrose/media/capedwoman.jpg.html
Lindsey @ Better After
January 15, 2015 at 7:22 PMBAHAHAHAHAHA! Ok, I just spent several minutes giggle snorting at my computer. That is hilariously awesome. HAHA! Thanks for the laugh!
LeeAnn
January 15, 2015 at 4:33 PMI still love this makeover and the fact that they haven’t changed a thing in the two years since they first completed it! 😉
Lindsey @ Better After
January 15, 2015 at 7:23 PMI happen to love that about it too! Here’s to finishing a room and *gasp* leaving it finished! (Like I know what that’s like, every room in my house is approximately 30% ‘finished’)
Suzanne
January 15, 2015 at 4:40 PMIf it makes you feel better, I have been reading your blog daily since your very first post and I have no recollection of it at all!
Lindsey @ Better After
January 15, 2015 at 7:20 PMWow, haha that’s awesome Suzanne! Thanks for the support. 🙂 Sending you a virtual hug!
Beth Anne
January 15, 2015 at 8:31 PMI never mind reposts of old posts it saves time from searching for it…that’s why I like pinterest. One of my favorite posts you did was on an Armoire makeover that had been through a fire and smelled horrible, you posted that one a couple years ago also…if you want to repost that again I wouldn’t mind seeing it. Keep up the good work I love your blog.
Kristin
January 16, 2015 at 1:18 PMOr it’s the White Wizard from LOTR.
Hil
January 16, 2015 at 2:11 PMHaha… I totally thought the seashell was a weird elephant face.
Cathy
January 16, 2015 at 2:41 PMHi,
I don’t remember the original post even though I was following you “way back then”. Really like the way the shelves in the bookcase are offset. The renovations of the fireplace. Like the unique style of the ottoman – wider bank around the outside and tufting in the middle. Is it just me or are the feet on the ottoman pigeon-toed? And now the picture (keep in mind I didn’t go to the actual source). I couldn’t figure out what it was (still doesn’t look like a seashell to me). Like you I thought it was a woman with the hood of her cloak up and the cloak billowing in the wind.
So funny.
Lindsay O.
January 16, 2015 at 2:56 PMThe seashell! I died. 😀
Virginia Cumberbatch
January 16, 2015 at 4:48 PMA woman in a cape with a pointed hat?? What have you been drinking Lindsey??
Jane
January 18, 2015 at 3:13 PMWhat I noticed was that someone flipped one of the pictures. Do you see how the stonework in the two pics are mirror images?