Living Room Makeover

Hello everyone!! I know, I know, it's been quite a while since my last post. Again, I'm such a bad blogger, lol! I've been really busy as of late, and one reason why, as you can see from the photos below, I've given our Living room a bit of a Shabby chic makeover. Now, I've loved how the room look before, but to tell you the truth, hubby was never really happy with so much PINK in the house. So, I decided to purchase some wallpaper that looks and feels just like actual bead board, and began the task of doing the makeover. First, of course, was ripping down all the old wallpaper, which, can be a bit difficult, lol. Then the fun part of putting up the new. This paper is soooo easy to put up as there are no matching up to do, as with patterned papers. Since this paper is heavier than regular wallpaper, I used a heavy duty wall paper adhesive to the back, even though this paper is pre-pasted. It's stuck on those walls REALLY well, lol.

And just to remind you how the room looked before, here is a photo taken a couple months or so ago.

This room now has that Shabby Chic feel to it, that I am so loving!! I'm really thinking of putting this same paper in our Dining room.
What do you all think of the makeover?

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Vintage Farmhouse Table makeover

As promised in my previous post, here are the photos of my Vintage farmhouse table-turned-coffee table makeover.

Here is the table as it was when I purchased it. Nice and chippy, like we all love, but it was just too chippy for my tastes, not to mention, a lot of the paint was literally falling off when you touched it. So, out to the Pole barn it went, and had hubby cut a few inches off the legs, and then used hubby's electric hand sander, and sanded away all the really loose paint. Then, out came my can of my very favorite soft shabby pale pink paint, and applied it on in a thin single layer, to give it a new look.....

.....and here it is! I am so in love with how it turned out! This is exactly what I had envisioned for a coffee table for our living room, and am over-the-moon thrilled with it!!

Love the little drawer on it.

The view from the couch.

And here is the top of the table. See how you can still see the outlines of the old paint! So very Shabby Chic!

Thanks for stopping by to see my Vintage Farmhouse table makeover! Hope you love it!!

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Treasures at the Allegan Antique Market

Hello everyone! As promised, I am showing you photos of the treasures I found at the Allegan Antique Market yesterday, as well as a sweet little Antique Mall in downtown Allegan.

This first photo shows all my sweet finds....

Found these 2 sweet vintage millinery floral hats....the blue one was found at the Market, and the cute little pink one at the Mall.

A fab vintage wallpaper covered box, a vintage Italian tole candlestick, and 2 pretty vintage linens were found at the market, and the beautiful Vintage floral barkcloth was found at the Mall.

A vintage tole can/wastebasket. Love this one with it's raised detailing!

Vintage Prayer picture....the roses are actually handpainted on the paper, and signed by the artist!

And my best and most favorite find at the Market was this wonderful shabby chippy vintage farmhouse table! This is what I was on the hunt for, and was super excited to come upon it. I've been wanting to find one of these to use as a coffee table, and it is just perfect....well, almost....I've given it a shabby chic makeover to it. Hubby cut down the legs to put it at a good height, and I've sanded it a bit to get rid of the really loose paint chips, and painted it. I'll show you the finished transformation of it in my next post, so stay tuned!

If you live in Michigan, or in a nearby neighboring state, I highly recommend going to the Allegan Antique Market! Their next date is August 25th, and the last one is September 29th. I won't be able to make the August one, but am hoping to attend the September show.

Until next time sweet friends !!