FOR SALE!!

Finally……two years and nearly three months later, we have my Mother’s house on the market!   So here it is.  All staged and ready. 

Such a cute house.  My mother always had pretty flowers planted in her flower beds.  There is a brick sidewalk going up to the front door and also brick around the flower bed in front of the house that you can’t see.

Entry.  Brick throughout high traffic areas.  That’s the front door directly to the right and the utility room to the far right.  On past that you walk into the living room on the left.

Here’s the living room.  New carpet.  Heather and I painted the book cases on either side of the fireplace.

Here’s another view from the dining room.  The ENTIRE and I do mean ENTIRE house is repainted.  From every ceiling to every base board!!

Here’s the dining room.  Look at that shiny shiny brick!  I mopped and resealed every bit of it.  Good exercise I tell ya!   We put in a new chandelier.  And a cute ceiling medallion painted to match the chandelier that you can’t see in this pic.  And notice the sky light above the kitchen sink.

Galley kitchen.  My mother tore out the original kitchen and remodeled.  All new cabinets and that is real butcher block on either side of the stove.  We’re leaving the refrigerator with the house. 

Looking to the back of the house from the dining area.  This is the HUGE den that she added on.  You can barely see a door in the right corner.  That’s a giant craft closet that runs the entire length of this room. 

Standing in front of that door, this is what you see.  The French doors lead to this……..

I know!  Cute isn’t it!

Here’s the back yard.  My mother was quite the gardener.  Even though the yard has barely been tended in over two years, it has great bones and is just waiting for someone to love it.  There’s even a little pond.

Master bedroom.  We painted the bathroom cabinets black and put in new tiles.  There’s a toilet and shower area to the left and a walk in closet to the right.

Hall bath.  Vanity repainted the same color as the living room book cases.

Middle bedroom.  Built in book cases. 

Front bedroom.  Don’t you love that cute bed Heather painted?  Both of these bedrooms also have walk in closets.  Also the hall which leads to the bedrooms has a coat closet and nice built-ins.

Our pictures could be a little better, it was a dark dreary day today and even with the flash, they were a little dark.  I tried lightening them in Photo Shop but only had limited luck.  Our main paint color is Ralph Lauren Canvas Natural VM15.  I was going to link back to the color swatch online but it looked a little fleshy to me.  It is such a GREAT color and seems to just play off of any other color that you put with it.  I used an egg shell finish to that the walls would be easy to keep clean for the new owner. 

So this is it.  Keeping in mind that everything we brought in for staging had to go back out, we kept furniture and accessories to a minimum.  Hopefully just enough so that buyers can visualize how nice their furnishings will look.

We want to SELL this house so it’s priced right.  1900 SF   $124,500.00 !! 

Hope you enjoyed your tour and if you know of anyone who is looking for a cute move-in ready house in the OKC area, contact our realtor, Debra O’Toole 405-641-7745

Have a wonderful week and a great Thanksgiving.  I know this is quite a weight off of my family’s shoulders to have the house on the market.

Denise

At The Rink

We have begun stocking our booth for the Holidays!  We should be adding new items a couple of times a week from now thru Christmas.

Lots of chippy rusty goodness.  Vintage tins and cute dog signs.

Pretty neutrals for Christmas decorating.

Love these cute doggie ornaments with crowns.  They’re glittered too!

We love our new paper flowers.  I think I made four sizes.  We were going to glitter these today before we added them to our display.  However, the wind was blowing about a bazillion miles an hour so that didn’t happen.  Each one has a scrim rosette in the center.  I think I may have to make some of these for my house!

I just added a few new items of jewelry this week.  I have some cute inexpensive vintage pieces to take  the first of next week.

I had my lousy camera today, but this end table is glam. cute! Two tone silver glitter paint!

Lots of pretty brights for little girls rooms.

Cute silver chest with hot pink birds and chandelier.

We even have the perfect lamp for the same room!

Come visit us at The Rink in OKC! 

Lots going on here…..it looks like I will actually be getting my Mother’s house on the market Monday!!  I’ll have Heather take some pics. with her better camera so we can show you all of our hard work.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Denise

Cold weather cozy!

When cold weather approaches, I tend to gravitate more and more toward cozy homey rooms.  I found one of my all time favorites on Better Home and Gardens web site this week.

I am totally in love!  White upholstery, chocolate brown walls, and the perfect touches of color.

Here’s another shot.

So I thought, hummmm…….what would it take to REALLY recreate this room?  So lets say we’re starting with an unlimited budget.  Might as well, since I can MAYBE afford a couple yards of fabric and not much else!   HAHA

I think I’ll just order some burlap drapes from Ballard's……

Then……how about a couple of chairs, also from Ballard's

Perfect!  Of course we’ll have to repaint and reupholster, but what the heck!  We do have that unlimited budget!

And that Kilim rug……YUMMY!

That’s pretty close.  And it’s ONLY $2200.00!  So if we don’t love it….no biggie.  Maybe the dog can sleep on it!  HA

The white chair and sofa…Ikea, of course.  We’ll just pick up a chair and loveseat/chaise

Oh oh….we’ll probably order the ottoman too, even though we’re going to reupholster it  with that yummy Hounds Tooth fabric.

How are we doing so far?

LOVE the mirrors on either side of the window.   But I may want an antiqued gold frame on mine, so I think I’ll shop around town for those.  They do look perfect though, don’t you think?  The way that they reflect light with the dark walls.

We’ll paint our favorite drop leaf table with chalk paint, Paris Gray.  And order this lamp from Restoration Hardware.

Love that Zinc base, how about you?  I think it retails for around $300.00.

The coffee table is just cute as can be with those little French style legs.  We’ll shop the local antique malls for the perfect one and then paint it our favorite turquoise.

Same with the chandie.  We might even pretend to be thrifty and paint an old brass chandelier.

The only hounds tooth fabric that I could find was this one.

Love the texture, but it’s not a dark enough chocolate.  And we DO need the perfect color so that we can have our paint color matched.  I think the Damask and the Hounds Tooth must have come from the same fabric group.  I REALLY did search and search for them.  If anyone out there has seen them, let me know.  I seriously would love a yard or two of each.

Accessories…..I can work on those later.   Right now I’m just exhausted from all of this hard  work shopping!

I can see changing those burnt orange pillows to maybe red at Christmas and hot pink for Spring/Summer.  How about you?

I had great fun shopping with all of you girls this evening!  Have a happy weekend.

Denise

BOO!

This is scary, two posts in one week! 

Heather dropped by yesterday with her fancy smancy new camera (meee jealous?)  and took some great shots around my house.  No more fuzzy, grainy pics.!

Is there anything scarier than a glittered skeleton!? HA

The bride and groom

In the living room.

The pups were supposed to get party hats.  I never took the time to make them.

They were so disappointed!

Now isn’t that the scariest face EVER? 

Fierce bears, just waiting to pounce.

Touches here and there.

This is a spooky corner.  I had to crop out all of the paint cans in the corner.   OOPS!

And Miss A says…..”what’s the big deal?  You eat…..you sleep….you take care of other business….then you start all over again.  Life’s a breeze…..EVERY day of the year!”

Have a Happy Halloween!

Denise

Joining Debra at Common Ground for her Friday party!  You can find the direct link to her wonderful blog on my bottom side bar.

looking through the window…..

Yes, I’m still here.  Just the same old same old.  I hadn’t taken any pics. in so long that the camera battery had to be charged.  Just thought I’d stop by and show you my fav. new find.

Certainly the walls are never bare for long around here. 

The next greatest thing seems to be getting  more difficult to find.

And I’m always looking for a new way to use my jewelry as art.

I found this Church window last week at the Rink.  With the bar running across it still intact.

I love it!  I’ll be looking for old clips to hang some of my vintage photos.  And for other windows so that I can maybe layer them on the mantel.

But I love the way that it looks in the bedroom for now.  And my vintage photo of the Teton Mountains really sets it off for me.

Hope you are having a lovely week!

Denise

My Master Bedroom

Well…..here it is, at least what I have finished to date.   I have to admit, I only took photos of one side of the room.  With all of the sewing junk, the rest of the room is anything but photo worthy.

If you have been following my blog for awhile, you know that I’ve been anxious to get rid of my oh so DATED brass bed.  But I had a budget of, well….almost nothing!  So enter Annie Sloan chalk paint.  Duck Egg Blue and Paris Gray.

First, I painted the bed duck egg and then dry brushed the gray over that.  You can see how the color appears lighter half way down.  That’s because I waxed the top half.  Kind of an experiment to see how durable the finish would be.  It’s held up okay, but I am going to touch up the places where the brass is showing through and then clear coat it instead. 

Next, I wanted to hide that ugly head board.  So I decided on a slipcover.

I cheated and only painted the rails part way down.  Shhhhh…..don’t tell anyone!  Then I took an old quilt that I had and cut it up.  I duck taped it to the headboard.  Just to give it a little cushion.

The slip simply wraps over the top and then ties on the sides.  I added little details like ruffles and the white flowers across the head board.

We sleep with a lot of pillows and I’ve always looked for some kind of a solution to cover them without removing them from the bed every morning.  I admit it, I’m a lazy bed maker!

So I came up with this.  A pillow wrap.  I used a full width of my toile fabric, added linen on each side, a flange for added interest, and then in the same white fabric as I used on the head board, a great big ruffle.  I LOVE it.  It touches the floor on either side of the bed and adds a pretty romantic look. 

We simply fold it down at night, and turn it down inside of the quilt .

I kept my pine chest on hubby’s side of the bed and left my family memory board above.  I still like it as much as the day I made it.  So many sweet memories!

On my side of the bed…….

I repainted this piece in the duck egg blue.  It was formerly black.  I would highly recommend this color!  The paint covered well and is a wonderful soft color.

The inside of the glass is covered with cotton lace.  I actually used my glue gun to attach it!  I know, I know, lazy!  But it hid the black interior and I didn’t have to paint the inside.

I made this loooonng pillow recently.   A taupe cotton fabric that I already had was a perfect match, as was the black check that I used for the cording.  The flowers are made from all of my bedroom fabrics.

I also made the one directly behind it.  I really am in love with my toile fabric.  It’s not as “in style” as it used to be, but certainly fit the bill for the look I was trying to create in this room.  And the blue in the background couldn’t have been a more perfect match!

So there you have it.  I removed most of the décor that I had on the walls.  I like the more serene, quiet, simple (for me) look.   My quilt belonged to my Mother.  It’s already starting to show some wear.  Large dogs on the bed just aren’t a great idea.   But what can I say…..she’s our 70 pound baby!   So anywho…..it’s looking like my next project may be a duvet cover.  Probably in something close to the same color.  That way I could always change up my colors a little bit with the seasons. Yeah right, like that’s going to happen……

Hope you have a fabulous week.

Denise

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