I like how Karryann at Gracefully Vintage unstuffed her settee with a lovely, casual linen. Not literally unstuffed, because ouch, but I mean that she made it less stuffy and stodgy with that peachy velvet, and more cool and casual instead. It’s like when your grandma tries to be all hip, but she’s surprisingly good at it, and suddenly she’s cooler than you, and now your friends want to borrow her clothes. Like that.
I apologize in advance if you absolutely adore the HGTV show Donna Decorates Dallas, but I just watched it for the first time and can’t say I’m a huge fan. Judging by the one episode I saw, it’s basically wealthy people buying expensive things. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s not particularly inspiring, relateable, or exciting.
You know what excites me? How about a $33 bathroom makeover? Better After reader Carly spent $15 on a quart of paint for her stripes, $18 for some peel and stick tiles, and added accessories and white paint she already had on hand. What would Donna have done to this bathroom with a $33 budget? Bought a new bar of soap?
So how do you feel about the chevron ‘trend?’ Coming? Going? I don’t actually want to know. Because I am still quite enamored with it, and to hear otherwise might break my little chevron-lovin’ heart. (But I will happily host a discussion on my true feelings about the mustache trend, if you ever want to know).
Tiffany recently shared our mutual love of the ziggity zag on the blog The Craftiest of Women, with her painstaking table makeover. Creating and staining the individual wooden pieces of the chevron design was the painstaking part. Painting over the Phil Collins lyrics, probably not so much.
When Georgia spotted this chair sitting on the curb, she nabbed it, knowing it would be perfect for her sewing room, pee stains and all. Why do we always default to pee? Why can’t we first assume it’s like … a Pine Sol stain or something? Because it’s not, of course. It’s probably totally pee. But she gave it a deep clean and a new upholstery job, and now it’s ready to go to work in her sewing room …
When Jane moved into her home, she inherited a real doozy of a guest room. The wallpaper made of heart-shaped smears wasn’t enough to throw her, but the massage-bed the previous owners had left behind was. Ewww! Ew. But she pulled through and turned this left-over love hovel into the sweetest little nursery you’ve ever seen. Head on over to Urbane Jane to take a peek at all the details; even the books are color coordinated!
And check out Jane’s kitchen makeover that I featured back in 2011 while you’re at it!
