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Before and Afters

Family Room Wainscoting

I spent all day in bed yesterday…down and out with a virus or something. I was still dragging this morning, but was feeling well enough this afternoon to get my photo shoots done. Unfortunately, a photo shoot is much more involved than just snapping a few pictures. I had to finish some details in the room, clean and then style. I just chipped away at it slowly to get it done. Get ready for a lot of pictures! Here’s what the family room looks like now… And here’s a look at how far this room has come since 2009… I don’t have pictures of the other side of the room, because it had a the jump-a-roo and other baby/kids toys. We removed the fireplace a couple of years ago to make a space for a wall-mount flatscreen TV. The fireplace was massive and didn’t work, so I

March 26, 2014 90 Comments

FURNITURE FEATURE FRIDAY

Hey, everyone! I am so sorry for all of the technical trouble we’ve had with this link party. We’ve been trying different link party tools and, it’s quite an involved story, but last week the code kept disappearing. My “people” are working on it, so we can have this running smoothly each week. For this week, you will have to click on the inLinkz logo to get to the party. Just hang in there as we figure everything out! Anyway, here are some favorites from last week… This table top by The Coastal Colonial is amazing. My goodness. It took over 300 wooden paint stir sticks to make it, but it looks fantastic. I absolutely love this dresser by Rachel of Shades of Blue Interiors. A rich color was exactly what this stately bow front highboy needed. I also love the brass hardware. Oh, and the chair. This is

March 20, 2014 11 Comments

Before and Afters

updated kitchen pictures

Before we dive into the pictures, I had to share something funny. My mom read my post from yesterday and immediately got her painting clothes ready. You see, she helps me on Wednesday nights when the boys are at Awana and she knew after reading the post that we would be painting my guest room! She knows me so well and was, of course, right. We painted most of the guest room tonight. I still need to do the dormer, ceiling and trim, but we made some good progress. It’s coming together bit by bit. I also worked on some photo shoots today. I have a freelance magazine shoot & article I’m working on as well as images for the look book and updated pictures for “my home” page on the blog. I shot some of the kitchen today… The picture above was taken today and the one below was

March 19, 2014 46 Comments

FURNITURE FEATURE FRIDAY |

Tonight is my 15 year anniversary, so I’m taking the night off! I handed the “picking of the favorites” off to Abbe, our primary educator for Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint. She’s all-around awesome and a lover of furniture as well, so I knew the picks were in good hands. Here she is… Hi Friends! Abbe’ here, I have the honor of picking out our features from last weeks FFF! Being a do-it-yourselfer, and painter, this was like being a kid in a candy store! I had hard time deciding! First off, here’s a great post on a re-upholstery job from a self proclaimed novice. I have to be honest- I have not done anything more than a seat recover because it seems so intimidating, but Lost and Found did a fabulous job of taking us step by step on her beautiful French chair makeover. I say- if you can do it, so can I! I love

March 13, 2014 44 Comments

Guest Room

guest room in the works…

After finishing the hand painted “Bavarian” guest bed last week, I could hardly wait to get it up in the space. Swapping out the beds is a job I needed help with, though, so I had to be a little patient. Well, I did carry up the bed myself and started swapping them out, but I ended up balancing the footboard on my hip while holding a rail on my foot. Then I called for help. Anyway, we got the bed in place and I took a few minutes to make the bed, try some different bedding options, and play with some fabric I had in my stash. I love how it’s coming together. I found a vintage crystal chandelier on Etsy (the crystals were removed for shipping and I haven’t put them back on, yet.) I’m going to replace the builder-grade light that’s been in there for years with

March 7, 2014 63 Comments

FURNITURE FEATURE FRIDAY |

I’ve been a bit under the weather today, so I didn’t get a chance to pick favorites for FFF, but I hope you enjoy the party just the same. I look forward to picking some favorites next week! Here are the rules for our furniture get-together… 1.) Your post has to be about furniture. Please, please, please…just furniture. If you find your link has been deleted, it’s not because I’m mean, it’s because your post was not about furniture. You can share makeovers, awesome finds, favorite pieces, furniture arrangements, or even pieces on your wish list! Built-in furniture like kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities qualify as furniture. 2.) Post a permalink (the link to the post), not the link to your blog. 3.) This party will close Friday at midnight PST and I will choose my favorite(s) and feature their piece(s) on next week’s FFF. Enjoy the party! An InLinkz

March 6, 2014 17 Comments

Hand Painted Furniture

Cabinet up for Auction

I was recently asked if I could donate something to a local private school for a fundraising auction event. I sort of hemmed and hawed over it and dragged my feet. For some funny reason, I felt like I didn’t really have anything to donate that people would want to buy. I know. A lot of you probably want to smack me in the head through the computer, since anything I put in my shop sells out in minutes and my booths at markets are wiped out in an almost comical way. I think that’s because in the blog world, in this little niche, I’m a “somebody”. Outside of that, I just go to the grocery store and church and my kid’s school and I’m just Marian. Well, most of the time. My two worlds are colliding more and more frequently, but Miss Mustard Seed used to be my secret-to-people-who-know-me-in-real-life-alter-ego.

March 6, 2014 16 Comments

Before and Afters

"spackle dries in three minutes…"

Jeff and I got more of the family room wainscoting done last week and I got things cleaned up and “done” along that wall yesterday. Here’s how it’s looking… This is where we were in December…one curtain panel (the other was on the way), the French daybed wasn’t upholstered, etc… And here’s where we are today… With the wainscoting done, I started to play around with wall art options in my head. Do I want to leave the walls blank? Hang something above? Below? I finally settled on a row of ironstone platters on each side of the window, above AND below the trim detail. About halfway through putting nails in the wall and stepping back, I wasn’t sure if I liked it. Then I heard my dear friend Shaunna’s voice in my head. “I mean, spackle dries in three minutes, y’all.” When she visited me a few weeks ago,

March 4, 2014 99 Comments

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