Let’s kick off Spring with the amazing story of turning vintage utensils into a great piece of art!! I cannot believe it is spring already!! We have been so bogged down with all this snow, wait I need to rephrase, what snow? We have had such a mild winter it feels like an extended autumn.…
Trunk Coffee Table This fabulous trunk coffee table started because Bryan needed a new coffee table. Our original coffee table was scratched, dinged up and in desperate need of updating. We decided the best place to start was Consign and Design in Broomall, PA. Bryan went to college with the owner and the place is…
The Sewing stand project Have you ever looked at something and thought to yourself, “Man this thing is hideous?” Well, that’s what I was thinking when my mom painted her Victorian sewing stand a poopy brown color. After she was done painting she asked me what I thought, “honestly Mom, I think it looks terrible,…
The S&P shaker spice rack project I have a modest collection of salt and pepper shakers that I have been collecting for a few years. As I write this it seems funny that I have a salt and pepper collection. It all started at a consignment shop right down the road. I went there looking…
The Bookcase project Bryan and I moved in this year and this, obviously, involves combining a lot of stuff. I have a ton of stuff, all of my art history books from college and grad school and my extensive collection of British history novels. Bryan only had one bookcase and it was packed to the…
“Honey our dining room table isn’t big enough. Okay, lets just make a bigger one ?!?” This is a little snippet of the conversation Alexandra and I had when we embarked on having our first Thanksgiving dinner. We expected about 12 people for dinner and our table barely fit 6. Even with the kitchen table…
1975 called says they want their china cabinet back The first project we ever took on was an outdated cabinet. As usual, this project was a bit longer than we expected. The Dining room was looking sparse and we needed something to store dishes. We first looked for servers but quickly found that china cabinets…