Showing posts with label vintage table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage table. Show all posts

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, April 30, 2011

Spring clean up down the shore

It's that time of year again, when I start the clean up down the Jersey Shore of my little cottage by the sea.
I'll be moving furniture around for a couple of weeks. Plans, Plans, Plans

This weekend I have a couple things I am hoping to get done.
1. Finish painting these 2 T back chairs that I actually began a month ago!!
 I only got the primer on these and then I abandoned them for bigger fish to fry in Florida. I have to finish them in creamy white.

 2. I also need to find a place for this vintage table

 that I have replaced in the dining room with  white T back  bar stools. You can see them in this previous post.

I love the table and it's adorable vintage drop leaf style, it just wasn't working out for us where it was. We had it set under the bar area, because we had no barstools. I just got them in January.
I hope the stools will work out better.
But I need a great place for this table to rest because I am not willing to part with it, so I got to thinking.
Sometimes I like to look at magazines and of course, so many great blogs out there, to get myself motivated.
I found these inspiring pictures that I adore. This room is yummy isn't it?
 I think it was "Cottage Living" mag. or the book "Waterside Cottages".

These vintage tables both look so awesome, and make me want to lug my table upstairs to the sunporch outside my bedroom, and create a little area for gaming and having some lunch with a view.


 That table with the boat on it looks so much like my dropleaf table. And I love the idea below, with the games stacked and at the ready, for any grey day.

Yep #3 I will be lugging my table up the stairs, and setting her up, to combine those 2 ideas.

I think I can fit her in somewhere up there on my sunporch... don't you?

#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
#7 Clean all the windows. Lets not get overambitious :)

I'll let you know how it all turns out.
You can see the results posted here.

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