Picture yourself at a party. There's the hostess, with a smiling bright face, leading you to a cart brimming with luscious cool drinks and adult beverages for you. Picture a big lucite ice bucket with silver tongs. Lemonade in a big pitcher. Then look down at the cart.
Read MoreMy favorite adjectives in decorating happen to be: colorful, bright, and gilded.
Read MoreThis is the piece that turned me around to appreciate French style furniture.
Read MoreI admired this terrific retro dresser for months.
Read MoreI have gotten so much braver since beginning my furniture business. I have begun considering purchases that I would not have before. In fact, I would have thought myself crazy for even considering this recent purchase I am going to tell you about.
Read MoreIt is always so hard for me to resist those signs. Yard sale, estate sale, moving sale, it doesn't matter because even though most of those turn out to be a bust for furniture, there is always a slim chance I'm going to find a really nice piece.
Read MoreTeal seems to be the color of the year where I am.
Read MoreThis piece needed an outfit to showcase its acanthus wreath jewelry!
Read MoreI have a friend with whom I go picking from time to time. Donna loves to pick thrift shops and other places that have unreachable piles.
Read MoreOh, oh, oh. Something catches my eye. In the sea of lumpy, ugly sofas, she stood out: demure, refined, faded. There she was, in a thrift shop, abandoned by her former owner.
Read MoreThis beautiful antique dresser came to me in its previous state by way of a good friend.
Read MoreNormally, I have somewhat of a plan for a piece of furniture, which is what allows me to start it in the first place. This one was to be very simple, with the emphasis on the inside: a pull-out drawer that becomes a desk top. It evolved into something fairly complex!
Read MoreWhen you buy a dresser from a Craigslist seller, you get a horse.
Read MoreAt any one of my favorite thrift shops, I can usually find something great to paint. This particular day, I picked up two items that I had previously passed by on several occasions.
Read MoreWhy is my favorite color pink?
Read MoreThis is the story of a very old, sad, dresser that has, I think, a very happy ending.
Read MoreI had the urge to go hunting for treasures one day a few weeks ago.
Read MoreI have this thing for bun feet. Just like curvy table legs, they tend to attract my attention. Sometimes almost single-mindedly so.
Read MoreI always wanted a piece of furniture in faux bamboo.
Read MoreIt was the legs that got me.
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