tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post9109337372320351216..comments2024-03-29T00:10:51.155-04:00Comments on Blue House Journal: Ten Tips For Decorating on A Budgetterricheneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06865436021565986224noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-49155390556928665462017-03-23T21:17:52.593-04:002017-03-23T21:17:52.593-04:00You have a beautiful home! I love seeing how you ...You have a beautiful home! I love seeing how you have decorated and painted and repurposed items to furnish your home. You are very talented.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16710629007170091862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-85713924076132605372017-03-23T16:30:37.445-04:002017-03-23T16:30:37.445-04:00Terri, I really enjoyed this post.. Lovely ideas.....Terri, I really enjoyed this post.. Lovely ideas.. thanks for sharing.<br />We too.. buy used items, or receive items that are no longer needed/wanted from family/friends. Love seeing what a little paint or fabric will do.. so fun.<br />Have a blessed day.Sew Blessed Maw [Judy]https://www.blogger.com/profile/15474519379303505290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-87084669181181130312017-03-23T15:56:19.548-04:002017-03-23T15:56:19.548-04:00Love your creativity. These are the things that ma...Love your creativity. These are the things that make a house a home. Thank-you for sharing. Cheers Jojomorronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-9488159447394585552017-03-23T11:24:10.854-04:002017-03-23T11:24:10.854-04:00Exactly how we roll here too! Our entertainment ...Exactly how we roll here too! Our entertainment center is a re-purposed 70's triple dresser. My grand piano was purchased for only $300. It had been ignored for 20 years and we brought it slowly back to life. A good friend received it for her 12th birthday and never earned to play. I have a large rooster lamp that my grandmother made 67 years ago and it even has the original shade. End tables and a curio cabinet were my great grandparent's. The curio is filled with little houses that my MIL collected on their many trips to Europe. A beautiful old clock has come down from through my husband's family since around 1810. A large painting over the piano was inherited from an elderly friend. We were thrilled to bring it home after her death. A pair of chairs came from my late MIL's childhood home. Our kitchen table was made by my husband 35 years ago. Our dining room furniture came from my parents. I have my grandmother's doll house that was made in Germany in 1910. My grandfather made the furniture inside. We made a low bar in our kitchen for the grandchildren from a 2 legged table bought for $5 at a thrift store. The chairs are the old heavy wood ones that schools used to have all bought at thrift stores and painted. Our maple pineapple post bedroom set came from a classified ad and we paid only $300 for it. The elderly lady we bought it from said it was her parents and was from the 1930's. I have the full size iron bed that my Mom and her sister slept in growing up and a youth bed made by my grandfather that four generations have slept in. There is also a little 2 door cabinet that matches that bed. The table between the chairs in our bedroom was $2 at a yard sale. It got a coat of paint. The chairs in our guest rooms came from thrift stores. One was an armed dining room chair with an awful green velvet seat that we painted and reupholstered. The other one is a funky old orange vinyl chair that says Clemson University on the bottom. Two of our boys got engineering degrees from Clemson and their wives are alum, too so they love that chair. Our daughter has an art degree and we have quite a lot of her work on our walls. She often gives me new pieces for birthdays. We have only owned two living room furniture sets in 38 years. Both were bought new at an outlet so we got very good quality for less. They were saved up for and cash was paid. I would not trade all my old nostalgia for new and trendy. All these cast off things give me connections and comfort.Lanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380649410508372279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-14854452993235579752017-03-23T09:18:15.740-04:002017-03-23T09:18:15.740-04:00Love this post! So many great ideas! I really like...Love this post! So many great ideas! I really like your ladderback chairs in the flower bed.Little Penpenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374048900216199298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-85204388744899203802017-03-23T02:06:40.661-04:002017-03-23T02:06:40.661-04:00Grandma D's house sounds like ours! Also when...Grandma D's house sounds like ours! Also when things are well made but cheap you don't worry so much about them. We had a round coffee table when the kids were very small. It cost $2 at an auction. It was a regular size round table someone had cut the legs off to make a coffee table. The kids used it to pull themselves up to try to walk and walked round and round it! Cute! They colored on it, did puzzles on it..you name it. It took any punishment. We enjoyed it and never had to worry they were ruining an expensive piece. :)Then later when they were learning to write they pushed on the pencils so hard it left words in the wood! Treasures ! It was real wood and if ever we wanted to we could sand and redo it. We had it for 30+ years and redid it.. Then gave it to another couple starting off as we then needed a much smaller coffee table. We got our $2 worth for sure! :-) Like you both our home's furnishings tell our story. <br />Another thing to use biggish cloth napkins for is to recover throw pillows. Some even have frindge ! I have used many used place mats for accents on little tables or the back of the toilet etc..or as mats behind pictures. Runners or even little rugs for accents on our coffee table. As you have said you can use sheets for curtains even for your patio. I think having to make do leads to having to be extra creative and more fun!! :-) Also there is no way your home is the cookie cutter house so many are...your house is totally you when YOU Redo ! Thanks Terri! SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-10958908379585653902017-03-22T22:13:44.298-04:002017-03-22T22:13:44.298-04:00Our bedroom set is the one we purchased almost 55 ...Our bedroom set is the one we purchased almost 55 years ago when we got married. I still love my bookcase headboard and never want a new one. It tells the story of our whole life together. My cedar chest was a wedding gift from Gramps. My bookcase was made by my father for my 10th birthday. My dining room set is a second hand one from a friends aunt. It is often covered with a crocheted tablecloth my mother in law made while waiting for Gramps to be born, other times by a pretty embroidered one, the very last "fancy work" my mom made. My living room furniture is probably 15 years old, but comfortable, Our guest bed was a gift from a dear friend when she moved. On my living room wall is a chalk drawing of my great grandfather. My desk belonged to my daughter that she got as part of a bedroom set for her 8th birthday and she is going to take to her house "someday". A lamp was in my childhood home. A beautiful all handsewn quilt made by Grandma for a wedding gift hangs on a quilt rack in my family room. Small display shelves made by my sweet father in law as well as a sewing cabinet he made for my birthday are used everyday. I love my old sentimental stuff! (including Gramps). Lots of other old stuff in my museum that i call home and wouldn't trade for anything new. Believe it or not my house really doesn't look too shabby. LOL, Gramma D Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com