Thrift Store Finds! Chairs, Chairs, Chairs!

Usually when I'm shopping for used furniture upholstery can be tough to find. It seems like upholstery is usually in pretty bad shape. I was determined to find a few chairs for our new house though!  Accent chairs from a typical store are at least $100 each (or way more) and usually they do not have that much character--which is fine, but I love to add as much character to my house as possible, some might find it funky ;)  

First, for my living room I needed one little chair. I found this cute little lady chair for $29! The upholstery was in perfect condition! At first I thought, grandma chair? and then I thought, no--with one of my orange elephant pillows it would be perfect! Joe got suckered into buying the orange pillows outside of a movie theater in India by a good salesman--at the time I thought I wouldn't use them, but now i'm happy he got them! (why did we go to a movie in India you ask? it was so hot we had to get some a/c!)

Here is my little lady chair in her thrift store waiting for me to take her home:

Orange "Boudoir" Chair

This one is awesome and totally funky--and perfect for our front sitting room. I saw this one fun day when I was out "antiquing" in Ottawa, KS with my mom, Rudy, Larry, Alexis & Lilli. They probably thought I was crazy but I thought I just have to have that chair! So, my mom got it for me for my birthday! I think it was like $50, but later when we got it home we found a price tag on the bottom for way more

so it must have been marked down :)

Last, but not least, my Blue Tufted Wingback Chair. I love tufting and the classic style of a Wingback chair. This one was the perfect color so I had to have it.

Here is the front room with the Wingback and Boudoir chairs. 

I love how they are different but still complement each other well.

Here is the living room with my little lady chair

Thrift Store Find! Retro Metal Shelf $6

I have a space in my dining room that needed something small and narrow. I thought a shelf would be perfect because we have a lot of knick knacks and photos from travels and life (probably a few too many!) it's hard for me to resist souvenirs from foreign countries, especially when they are such a bargain and I know will be full of memories!

I found this not so cute metal shelf but imagined it would look great in my new favorite blueish turquoise that I have been using everywhere--including my front door! I got the leftover paint from our painter so I'm going a little crazy with it. I think it is almost a neutral color in our house full of color.

(do you like the fake wood grain on the metal ?)

 I left the brass parts brass to coordinate with my Indian Brass vases. I think it's funny that I like some gold accents on the interior of my house but not the exterior! ;)



Thrift Store Find! Spindly Table $2.75

I found this little beauty is and thought it would be a perfect plant stand for

my pencil cactus in our dining room area.

I had extra yellow paint from my nightstand project so I thought that would be the perfect color. I love the way it turned out and the pencil cactus is a perfect fit!

My mom has had the same pencil cactus for like 40 years that she brought to Missouri from Arizona. She has made new cacti over and over with the same plant from cuttings. This cutting was 1/4 of the size last year, she brought it in a little ziploc bag--look at it now! Awesome! It's great too because I never have to water it. So far I haven't developed a green thumb so it's the perfect plant for me.  

House Exterior Paint!

When we purchased our house we knew we had to get it repainted and relandscaped within 30 days according to the HOA--30 days!? I know! That is what I thought and why I asked for the money from the seller (Freddie Mac)--and got it--yay! Never hurts to ask, right? It was actually a good thing that they put such a huge request on us immediately or I'm afraid we would've waited too long and the house really needed it after sitting empty for nearly 3 years.

Before: Boring beigey-pinky color, didn't really stand out at all.

After: I went very bold! A grayish brown, sometimes called "Greige" It is pretty dark but I love the contract between the field color and the trim. It really stands out now! I also needed to update the goldy brass exterior lights, door handle and house numbers. I shopped around for lights and everything was too pricey so I realized I could spray paint everything silver, total $3.50! (i'll put it in a future post!) The planters were just green plastic that my mom found on the side of the house, I used the door color to paint them and added pink and orange flowers.

next project, deck?! with the beautiful view it would be nice!