Andrew and I took a drive out of town to visit family and did our usual thrift store hunt for furniture. Just when we thought we found nothing, this awesome vintage typewriter cart was hiding amongst… Read More »Before and After: Vintage Typewriter Cart
One thing that really bothers me is when someone takes a Mid Century style piece of furniture and applies a shabby chic paint finish to it. Modern + shabby do not mix! This vintage cabinet was one… Read More »Before and After: Vintage Cabinet from Shabby to Chic
Someone left this sad little vintage telephone table on the side of the road and I took it home. I loved the different materials used in the design, horizontal bars and curved plywood shapes. I… Read More »Before and After: Vintage Telephone Table
Another painted vintage dresser project completed. This one was literally a beast that was turned into a beauty. It had a horrible faux wood grain finish and tons of chips and since it was made… Read More »Before and After: Painted Vintage Dresser
Our neighbour had a garage sale in our building the other weekend and I picked up this potentially cute side table for practically free. The awesome part was I just had to pop it in the… Read More »Before and After: Vintage Side Table with Dipped Tips
When we got our place about 2 years ago we installed 2 medicine cabinets, one was new and the other was upcycled from an old Ikea cabinet that was left in the apartment by the… Read More »Medicine Cabinet Mini Makeover
Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to an estate sale with my boyfriend. We scored big, getting ourselves a vintage dresser and matching highboy for practically nothing. The dresser came with a mirror… Read More »Before and After: Vintage Highboy and Dresser
The other weekend while driving out of town to visit family we hit up the local thrift stores to see if we could get any deals. Lately I’ve been finding that would local thrift shops… Read More »Before and After: Vintage Dresser with Découpage Pattern
My latest find was a mid-century modern cabinet which originally came from a local art gallery, it was in rough shape with really dry wood veneer and a broken door. Not only was the door… Read More »Before and After: Mid-Century Modern Cabinet
Another one bites the dust! Literally. This project was one of the messiest I’ve done to date. This vintage dresser required a ridiculous amount of sanding. Luckily Andrew was willing to sand it. What we didn’t… Read More »Before and After: Vintage dresser with 6 drawers
Last weekend I found a dresser in our alley, well technically it wasn’t our alley, it was Spring cleaning in our building and people just put stuff in a pile and it gets removed a… Read More »Before and After: Dresser
Last week I found a cabinet for free and saw that it had some potential under the beat up ugly white paint job to possibly be a Mid Century style project. From the inside I… Read More »Mid Century Modern Before and After