Showing posts with label antique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antique. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

White Hutch for White Wendesday

Just a few pics of my hutch and a pretty new turn of the century pitcher i found recently.

The one right in the center. It's a genuine Victorian era pitcher




Sorry the pic quality is not so great, it is getting dark 6 pm wednesday, and this is from my phone.

Below is a piece of white Hull pottery, and one of my favorite blue bowls


I hope all are having a good week!
thanks for poppin in.
Eileen

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Painting, Redecorating, Junkin and Fluffing the sunroom

I often overestimate what I can get done.
My plans get sabotoged.
Like this weekend. Started with big plans to clean up my beach house and get 2 properties that I rent out prepared for the season.
Trouble was I got a phone call just on Saturday..letting me know that my seasonal renter was backing out. So that changed my plans big time. This is just 3 weeks till the summer season begins !!
It kinda puts me in a jam.
I had to get busy with For Rent signs and pictures and  setting up my  advertising on
 "our town rentals.com"
And contracts at the real estate office, new keys, blah, blah blah.
That shot my Sunday and most of my Monday!
Topped off with the internet not working down here at my shore house.... And there just ain't any over acheiving or over accomplishing here,
Overambitious we got. Unless I stay a day longer. Which I did.

And I am just wondering if any of you cyber peeps happen to know what is wrong with the male species? 
I asked hubbo to help me bring the deck furniture back outside from its winter haven inside the house, and this is how he arranges it.
 In a clump. 
Talented huh? 
Yeah. He's got it go-in on.

After all the  cleaning, picture taking and uploading and discribing. I finally got that Rental cottage listed.
It's a  little Victorian Cottage, about a block from the water in North Wildwood NJ

 A small little cottage set back with a large front yard. It's tiny and fits about 4 people.
 A block to the beach

 When that was done I moved onto finishing up what I had planned for my personal cottage, which I posted about here. I still have a million things to do before the Memorial day start of our summer season.
My list for this weekend
#1. Finish painting the 2 T back chairs
 #2.  find a place for this vintage table
#3 I will be lugging my table up the stairs,
#4. That table will be getting a fresh coat of white too.
#5. Find a new spot for those chairs I am going to finish painting.
#6 Add more starfish to windows


1. Got those chairs finally done and gave them a place next to the hutch.
The Before.

The After
 And with a cushion..

They got a spot by the hutch. They match my kitchen chairs better now, and will be handy to pull into the kitchen for extra seating.
One additional fun thing I managed to squeeze in was junkin with my sis.
I found this adorable blue covered veggie dish .

After all my work and fun junking...
#2 Found a spot for the vintage table
#3 lugged up satirs
#4 Paint vintage table ( had to paint the undercarriage, I hadn't done  that before, was being lazy :)
 and a fresh top coat everywhere else)



Now for the fun part. The fluffing.
I noted last week that I wanted the room to look like this one below from Cottage Living magazine. Or was it Waterside Cottages?
Post Note: I just found out it in the book Waterside Cottages,
 written by Barbara Jacksier
http://barbarajacksier.blogspot.com
I love this room and it looks a lot like my sunroom already, I just added the table and the boat.



I wanted a table I could use for games and a snack or lunch. The best part is I already had everything I needed in the house. I love shopping my own house. The table was from my dining area which I was replacing with bar stools.

So here is my sun room with my freshly painted vintage dining room table in it.

The games are tucked under the table in a painted suitcase
A place for Mojitos and Snacks

Some fluffiness for the couch



I love my old drop leaf table and I am glad I didn't give it away!

One Movie quote I am thinking about right now is the one from "Jaws"

"We're gonna need a bigger boat"

Don't ya think?
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Another post note:
I got a bigger boat!


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Saturday, February 26, 2011

A simple Beadboard Shelf - the perfect spot

On a weekend hunt of some antique shops and vintage shops in Pennsylvania with my adorable sister some years back, I spotted this adorable wall shelf ...

Right there, I decided it was coming home with me for my cottage at the beach. It was such a luscious soft grren, it had my heart.... It still does all these years later.
If it is blue, white or green I usually know it will fit in.
 All it takes is changing things up, and I like to do that. Besides I had a spot between 2 windows that was calling out for something other than a blank wall. I just hadn't found that something...until now.
So I plopped it in my car and hung it up in that empty spot and dressed it up with some beachy things from around the cottage. An old shell frame from a friend years ago, a candle holder from my daughter and talk about a bargain... that lighthouse plate was a dollar store find!


 It's got all the blues and greens that I love.

I love the little holes and dings it has in the beadboard it was made with.

And it's fun to switch up the accessorries a little. One of my favs is my depression glass candy dish.

Or the vase we fill with black scallop shells we find on the shore.



I found the "Cottage" sign at Home Goods. cute isn't it?  I have a love affair with that store.

Overall it's a really happy fit with all the blues and greens in my cottage.

Joining the Thrifty Decor Party @ http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com
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