Spring Fresh II

I wanted to share a few more photos of things about my home.  I used money earned from the blog to purchase new rugs for our bathroom and the kitchen.   I really like the kitchen rug.  I bought a matching rug to go under the desk and chair.  This room has taken on a feminine air of late.  I think it's because of the toile covered desk chair and plants. 

I was especially happy to return the ivory swivel rocker to the corner in this room.  I missed that seating for Bible study and quiet retreat.  I tried to enjoy it in our bedroom but it just felt too dark in the mornings on that side of the house.  I couldn't ever get comfortable in the living room for the same reason.  Being on the east side of the house once more makes me happy. I have used my map table here instead of the old wooden piano stool I was using before.  That map table isn't really working with my chair and it's full of plants sheltering from the cold at the moment.  Not quite the way I plan for this spot to look.

I sewed pompoms to the kitchen curtains.  Don't look too closely...I didn't have quite enough!  I'll be purchasing another couple of lengths to finish those off next week.  In the meantime, I prefer to have curtains at the window so they went up not quite finished.


In place of the swivel rocker, I put the little chair I bought at Peaches to Beaches yard sale.  I'd just that morning, while making our bed, thought to myself I'd like to add a touch of green to the room.  I love when little things work to give me just what I want. 

Love my new fern...and aren't I getting quite the collection of old wooden chocolate boxes?  I found another one at Peaches to Beaches this past week.

You might note the new charcoal colored curtains behind the chair.  Honestly the amount of light that appears to be coming in the window is such a joke because it was morning and it was so overcast and cloudy outdoors, but there's that sheer shining like sun was pouring into the room.  It wasn't!

The curtains are room darkening ones.  The sheer is also a charcoal gray.  I got the curtains and the sheers at clearance prices.  I think I paid $4 for the two sheers and I was kind of surprised when I opened the package.  I'd taken note of the length when purchasing but disregarded  the width.  They are just 28 inches wide!  That was not what I expected, but  this works well for me because they hang nicely between the two curtains without bunching up and blocking out a lot of the light in the morning hours. It also means one curtain rod works fine and there's no need for two.  Since the sheer panel is so narrow, I can easily pull the drapes together and block out the light in the afternoon when the weather is much warmer.

Isn't the chair pretty?  Feminine...I seem to be really getting in touch with my girly side these days.  The fern I bought with my flower money for this pay period.  I was right in thinking plants were my answer for bringing in a fresh air to the house.  I need to find a pretty container for it.

I painted the picture frames here in a sort of dry brush silver finish over the tarnished gold look.  I love the pictures and really appreciate them in the bedroom (formerly used in guest bath), but can't make up my mind if I should use them both or just one.  What do you think?

The dresser got polished and then I added my yard sale purchases to it.  How nice they look on my old dresser!  I keep trying to make the top of this dresser look more modern but it just refuses to accommodate me.  It likes pretty old things on top of it and so I shall just let it have it's way.

This  photo is of the little framed print I picked up at another vendor.  I love that little frame, it's beautiful burl wood.

And a closer view of the brushes I bought at Peaches to Beaches.

Here's the guest bath with the 'new' shower curtain I made from the sheers I'd been using in my bedroom.  

This is a small bath.  It's barely 5 feet in width at it's widest point.  We have few regrets where our home is concerned but not really paying attention to the size of this bath is one of our regrets.  It is meant to be the main bathroom and should really have been bigger.  Our master bath is HUGE, even more so when compared to this one. 

There is no window, but it looks three times as bright now that I've removed the light gray shower curtain.  You wouldn't think it would make that much difference, but it did!  As part of my Spring freshening I mean to paint the inside of the door.  I'll stick with the white because the door end of the bath can seem a little dark due to the very small area it's in.

This whole business with the sheers working in this bathroom was a complete surprise to me.  I just hung them on the curtain rod to dry on Sunday when it was raining and I'd decided to start cleaning.  I stepped back and saw the way it looked with the room and the rug that I already had in here and said "Wow!"   I'd been looking for a new shower curtain simply because I'd had the other for nearly 5 years and I was ready for something new.  I had no clue it was already hanging in my home. 

I cut the grommet edge from the sheer curtain and noted that it had a heavy interfacing in the fabric at that edge to give it weight and body.  I dug around in my stuff and found a light interfacing and added a strip of that to the top, then hemmed and put in button holes.  It wasn't a fast project but it wasn't difficult either.

Well that it's for phase two of Spring Fresh in my home.  I hadn't planned to do this much in addition to cleaning, but I have.  I am not finished yet, so who knows what else is subject to change?