Dearest Craigslist,
So, you know way back when, when I may have said that you give me the heebies? Like, I don�t like strange people coming to my house, heebies?
Well, I take it all back. Well, not the strange people coming to my house part. The part where I acted like I anything-less-than loved you. Cause I do. Very, very much.
You are now my latest BFF. I have many of them, but being the latest one makes you extra special. For about a week.
Smooches,
Me
:)
Do you have spots in your house that always bug you, and you can�t put your finger on what it is, so you just keep messing with it?
I have a few, but the one that got my attention last week was our foyer. I showed you back on this post how our foyer had started out like this:
With a very large Ballard Designs art print (bought on discount at the outlet, whoohoo!) and our hall table. I never seemed right, so I took the mirror from the family room instead:
Enter Craigslist. (This is where hearts flutter out of my eyes.) I downloaded the Craigslist app on my phone a few months ago, and would play around with it every once and a while. Last week, I looked up dressers, just to see what I would find.
Um, what I found was THREE pieces I thought I may just curl up and die without. Dannnngah! What the heck? Why did I have to find three?
I ended up picking one, but after I got home with it, I realized the length of the dresser was really a foot longer than what the the seller told me it was. Meaning it was MASSIVE and there was no way it was fitting in this space. I put it in a different spot (which I luuuurve and will show you soon.)
But gosh darn it. That meant I may have to try to get another one I loved. ;) I decided if the one I wanted was still available a couple days later, it would be �meant to be� and I�d go get it.
Well Squeezies, it was meant. to. be. The piece was still there, waiting for me. So it came home with me. And all was right with the world:
Awww yeah, it was PERFECT! But of course, then nothing else was right. The skinny lamp that I had on the hall table was lost on there, and I was craving some COLOR against that black.
So I took this vintage lamp I had spray painted last year:
And sprayed it with a green paint I had in my stash. A new drum shade (stolen from another lamp) and I was in love:
I�m also in love with these two:
:)
I am so into the look of non symmetrical wall displays right now, so I decided to try something similar using what I already had.
I spray painted the frame on some art I�ve had since college:
Then I took some Rub n Buff (can you believe I had never used it?):
And touched up the raised parts:
It was SO easy to use! I love this stuff!
I took an old frame that held an adorable photo of my hubby (that is going in a new spot) and replaced it with part of an old art print:
The greens in the art match the new lamp color perfectly!
The round mirror was too busy for what I was going for � ideally I�d love one with a big, chunky frame, but because I had bought two pieces of furniture within days, I figured it would be best I didn�t spend any more money. My marriage is important to me. ;)
So I took a mirror from upstairs and added some Rub n Buff to the detail:
And I�m pretty happy with the result, especially for only using what I had around the house:
The piece is actually a buffet, which is exactly what I was looking for in this spot! It has a lovely little curve to it:
I did end distressing it just a tad, just to add some character:
OK, let�s be real here folks. It will get �distressed� around here anyway, so I decided to beat the wear and tear to the punch. :)
It has SO much storage, and storage makes me soooo very happy:
I love love LOVE this buffet/dresser/lovely thing!:
I�m still messing around with accessories, and may be on the lookout for different art. But for only spending money on the furniture, I�m pretty happy with it!:
By the way, the buffet was $160 � way more than I wanted to spend, but I could not get it out of my head peeps! It was love at first sight. And the fact that it was still available after a couple days means it was meant to be for us, me and my Craigslist buffet. ;)
So, my before:
And my after, thanks to my latest BFF:
Now it�s time for you to link it up! As always, I ask that you please link to your blog post, not your blog address (by right clicking on your blog post, copy shortcut, then paste into the linky.
I would love it if you would link back to my site and use this purdy little button:
The party will be open to links until next Tuesday, July 13th. Have FUN and enjoy!
I hope you all had a GREAT Fourth of July holiday!!
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