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five things | fall decorating favorites

Because I’ve been busy with home and work projects, I haven’t done much fall decorating.  I did buy one heirloom pumpkin yesterday and some heather, but otherwise, I’m not going to do too much this year.  I may change my mind in a week or two!  The temperature was a crisp 40 degrees this morning on my walk and a couple of trees in our yard have turned a fiery red, so I’m definitely in the mood for fall.  It’s for that reason that I decided to share my five fall decorating favorites from the past few years. Farmhouse-Style Blue & White Fall Table As soon as I broke free from the idea that fall decorating had to include orange, I enjoyed it.  It could be blue and white and green.  This table was a celebration of that! I just used white pumpkins with green apples, some persevered yellow leaves,

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September 17, 2020 19 Comments
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master bedroom bed crown & pillows

When I shared the milk painted dresser last week, many of you noticed that the bed crown was finished and up!  My mom and I worked on that as well as sewing some pillows for the bed in the master bedroom. Several readers have asked to see the entire bedroom and I will show it soon, but it’s not quite finished, yet!  I still have a few more finishing touches before the final reveal.  Here is a preview of the bed crown and the new pillows, though… Now, I realize that a bed crown is going to be far too fussy, formal, and French for some, and that’s okay.  If it is, then don’t put one in your room!  For my space, it’s the perfect solution to a tall, arched headboard in a room with eight-foot ceilings.  The space created between the bed and the ceiling was pretty awkward to

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September 14, 2020 117 Comments
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How to Clean Stinky Furniture

One of the questions I’m asked most often is about how to clean stinky furniture.  Here is the most recent e-mail I received about that… “I have an older dresser that smells awful! I have no idea what to do to alleviate the smell. It was my mom’s and now it’s mine. There hasn’t been anything smelly stored in it but I’m stumped as to what to do to have fresh-smelling drawers without having to sand the inside of the drawers down or douse it with chemicals. My only other thought is to spray or paint it with KILZ. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?  Thanks for your time!” Having bought and sold thousands of pieces of furniture over the past 10 years, I have done battle with many pieces that were stinky, musty, smelled like smoke or animal pee, or were just completely dirty and gross.  Sometimes it’s

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September 10, 2020 29 Comments
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milk painted dresser makeover

I know that my followers love a good furniture makeover and I have a good old fashioned painted dresser makeover today! This is a dresser I bought in the spring of 2019 when my mom and I were working on the guest room makeover.  We went out to a few local antique and consignment shops to see if we could find dressers to use as storage/nightstands and we ended up finding one for each side.  This is one of those dressers that was now replaced by an almost identical dresser we found when they were visiting a few weeks ago.  Are you tracking with me? We ended up swapping out the one we bought last March with the recent find because the drawers work just a little bit better.  Since Jeff will be using it daily as a nightstand, it made sense to use the slightly sturdier one.  Be also

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September 9, 2020 67 Comments
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studio chair slipcover

I wasn’t able to get my post up yesterday, because I was shooting a local home in Rochester.  It was such a fun day!  I love photoshoots, styling, tweaking, etc.  Anyway, today I’m going to share about a slipcover I made for my studio desk chair.  Remember this desk chair that I got a couple of years ago when I rearranged the furniture in my studio and office to make both spaces more functional? | | I moved this chair into my studio when Jeff was working out of my office during the stay-at-home orders and I liked it in there.  It’s a pretty comfortable chair and the small scale suited the antique teacher’s desk I use as a work surface in the studio.  I just wanted to customize it a little bit and while I was playing with fabrics to make a slipcover for my office chair (you can

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September 3, 2020 37 Comments
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makeover in a month | home office makeover reveal

The makeover in a month is finished and it’s time for me to share the full home office makeover reveal! A few weeks ago, when I was planning out the projects to work on with my parents, my office wasn’t officially on the list.  I had written “home office – stripes?”  I was considering something like painting tone-on-tone stripes on the walls.  I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, but I knew it needed just a little something more.  I rearranged and fluffed the office a bit a couple of months ago (all with things I had on hand) and liked the result, but I wanted to make the walls more interesting and customize the desk chair.  Wallpaper and inexpensive 2/3-height paneling did the trick! If you missed the first few posts about this home office makeover, you can find them here… Installing the paneling Slipcovering the desk chair

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September 1, 2020 48 Comments
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the painted bathroom shelf

Several weeks ago, I went antique shopping with my friend, Cheri, and I stopped at a local consignment shop on the way home.  I had found a few small things, but not any of the larger furniture pieces I was looking for in the antique shops we visited, so I was hoping I’d find one of those pieces at my favorite local consignment shop.  I didn’t have much luck finding a dresser or daybed (I later found both), but I did find a homemade secretary desk that I thought would make a perfect bathroom shelf.   It was a nice size, I loved the curved details, and it was inexpensive (around $30.) It also reminded me of something my Opa would’ve built.  He made a few small cabinets and shelves and this looks a lot like those.  There is a signature and date on the back, but I forgot to take

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August 31, 2020 35 Comments
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antique jenny lind daybed

I think I’ve mentioned it a time or two that I was looking for a bench, settee, sofa, or daybed to put under the window in our master bedroom.  The hunt has been a bit harder than I expected.  Once I compared the measurements of my space (as well as the door leading into the bedroom) to pieces I was finding on craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, I realized that I was looking for something very specific.   It would either take just the right amount of thrifting serendipity or a willingness to splurge on a new piece or an antique one that would have to be shipped.  I found some online that I loved, but they were way outside of the budget I set for this piece. I found a new one that was the right size and within the budget, but I was afraid I might regret not waiting for

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August 28, 2020 46 Comments

I’m Marian, a painter, writer, and lover of all things creative. From art and antiques to home projects and everyday life, I share my journey in hopes of inspiring you to embrace your own creativity and make beauty in the spaces you live.

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