The story of two buffets

I am terrible. Seriously I need to start carrying my camera around with me so that I can take pictures the min I get pieces. 

But in my defense I really WANTED to take before pictures of both of these. 

Let me start by sharing the story of the first buffet. 

I picked this up a year ago. Thats right, I said a year ago. I wanted something to sit in my office to hold all my stuff. 

You see I have all my stuff in several different cabinets and shelves and just places all over my office. I thought that by buying one unit I would be able to have everything in order and in place...so my search began. 

I found this girl. 

No glass to deal with, I could hide what I wanted to, and display what I wanted to. Lots of storage and just perfect for me. 

 I mean really, how many times do you find a unit this big with 4 doors instead of two?

 Double shelves on top along with all those little drawers?

 And drawers all the way across...I was in heaven!

And I picked a colour that would match my desk. 

Everything was planned out perfectly...........till my husbands cousins wife came for a visit. You see I was showing her some of my projects and she fell in love with this. I had gotten the top finished but the bottom was "au natural" at that point. She and her husband (my husbands cousin, I'm sure I mentioned that) were/are in the process of building their dream cottage. So when she fell in love with this and told me how perfect it would be in their cottage and how....well you get the idea. 

What was I supposed to do? It was her dream piece right? So no rush...and when there is no rush, I tend to put it off. 

Well I got sick of looking at it half done..I finished it. It's still going to sit here for another month or so till they are ready for it to be moved. 

So sadly I will have to continue my search for my piece. Wish me luck. :) 

Now on to my darker side. 

My husband found this one for me at the Re-store. 

She was in perfect condition, but dated with wire backing to all her windows. But he knew I would love the curves. 

He was right :) 

 She came to me all brown...which of course is something that can easily be changed. I had so many ideas on what to do with her...but black just seemed to scream out at me. 

 I did keep most of her hardware, but the actual knobs just didn't do it for me..so glass it is. The rest received a good coat of spray paint (I used one meant for cars...yes you hear right) You have to go with what works right? :)

 I went hunting for some wonderful damask wallpaper..and finally found this. It was perfect, exactly matching the picture in my mind :)

 I distressed it only on the sharp edges...and rebuilt her.

 Details get me every time :)

 My husband was so impressed he thought he might like to keep her, but I smacked him out of it...lol

Sometimes you just have to offer the best to someone that is going to love looking at her as much as I loved bringing her back to life. :) 

Have a great weekend everyone, and I seriously hope you manage to find your way out of the snow! 

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Swwwweeeeeeet Dreams!

Unfortunately the sweet dreams are not for me. 

I've seen this kind of bed on other blogs and have always wanted to get one. 

I know the picture kinda sucks....but bare with me please. 

I was just glancing through our local kijiji when I came across it. It came with everything. Two dressers, a mirror and this bed. 

The price was a bit more than I normally pay for something, but I just had to have that bed! 

After talking to the owner for a bit we came to a price we could both live with. For some reason she thought the bed was going to be the hardest part to sell! She did have offers for the dressers but nothing for the bed, and I think she picked me because I wanted everything :) 

This is the headboard that came with it. 

Now as pretty as this is..I wasn't thrilled with it. I have another project in mind for this one. 

BUT I just happened to have another head board that fit perfectly with this set that I thought would suit the time period perfectly. I already knew this wasn't the original headboard so I felt no guilt in switching it out. 

 This was after the first coat of primer. Sorry about that...but you know when you get excited about a project you just dive right in....right? Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this. 

I posted a pic of the set on my facebook page as soon as I got home. I had several inquiries pretty much right away, and sold it before I even started to redo it. This is great because the person who bought it was able to share her ideas on what she wanted for colour etc. 

So this is how it looks now. Ready for her new owner to come and get her tomorrow :) 

 Isn't it sweeeeet?

 I just love the hint of age on this set now.

It's just sooooo perfect. 

If only this bed had been a king size..I would have so kept it for myself. 

But you know how it goes...the search will continue till I find my own perfect set. Either that or I manage to talk my husband into letting me paint what we have ;) 

Sweet dreams everyone :)

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P-P-Purple

A couple of weeks ago I was out visiting with a friend of mine and as so often happens we ended up cruising some second hand stores. I was of course on the hunt for interesting and cheap furniture. 

I found a lot of really cool pieces, but sadly most were out of the range I was willing to pay. 

However when we entered the local Re Store I found this wonderful pine dresser :) 

 Ok...so I didn't exactly get a pic before I started ripping it apart, but really, I'm rather proud of the fact that I did finally remember to get some semi before pics..lol

 I had already started stripping the top. I love these dressers because I feel absolutely no guilt in doing things to them. They aren't all that old, and they paint up really well. Were solidly built and look so much better "after" :)

Simple drawers, but again, really solid :) 

I grabbed a can of Opps paint that I had sitting around for a while and thought..what the heck, lets go for it. 

This is what came out. 

What do you think? 

 PURPLE!

 With an overall black glaze...but not enough to distract from the purple

 And wonderful storage drawers behind the doors.

Wonderful shape to add some interest and I painted the handles a straight black. 

This only took two days to sell...she just went to her new home today. 

ahhhh on to the next one. Man I love my job :) 
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Dining set redone.

Wow...what a busy January. 

This is my first post this year and for those that follow me, I'm so sorry it's taken this long to get back in the saddle. 

We had a fabulous vacation in Belize. I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves adventure.

Here are just a couple of pictures of our time away. 

 This is our view from our room each day we were there.

 I could have easily lived in my bathing suit. It took a total of about 5 min for us to get relaxed after arriving :)

 There are a LOT of ruins there, and we only saw a couple of them. We will have to go back for that reason alone ;)

 Tired, relaxed and ready to go home

Goodbye Belize....till next time :) 

Ok...so on to the reason you are really here. Furniture :) 

I've done so many things since coming home and can't possibly cover them all. But I did want to share with you one of my biggest projects. 

I can't seem to find any of the "before" pics on my computer. I know I took them and I know I uploaded and edited them. I just can't find the dang things. 

So you will have to live with the after pics. 

 Try if you will to imagine this piece covered in both gold and green velvet, ripped and dirty from years of misuse.

 Chipped and ugly.

 Can't imagine it?

 I can't either anymore.

 This set is now ready for it's new home.

Just look at those detailed corners. I'm in love and was seriously eying it up for my own home. Silly me..lol 

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Vacation time.

I want to take some time this Christmas season to thank YOU. The people that follow my blog, like me on Facebook and follow me on pinterest. 

I love the emails I get, the comments the repins. But mostly I love the support and the friendships I've developed over the past year. 

This is my last post of the year. 

On Wed we head out on vacation. This is a big deal for us since we really don't do a lot of traveling. 

We are off to see this...................

Some of you know just by this picture where we are going. :) 

In case you don't. 

We hope to see this as well. It's very high on our list :) 

Need another hint? 

 We are a bit crazy..history nuts, so exploring these places is heaven to us.

Of course along with all of that I hope to spend at least a few days doing nothing right here....

 I've gathered a couple of books I've been wanting to read..and going to pick up a couple more tomorrow. 

If you haven't guessed by now, we are heading here...... 

I want to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and an amazing New Year. 

I will be back the first week in January..with a lot of new projects and some goals. 

I've learned a lot this past year, mostly about who I am, where I'm going in this wonderful thing we call life..and how to follow my heart. (not easy for a pleaser like me) 

So spend time with family, love each moment and enjoy this Christmas season..or Hanuka :) 

Love you all

Till next year :) 

Titia 


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