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Coastal Cottage Style Table

Here’s a super simple DIY project… haha… I notice that as I’m getting older and older, my DIY projects are getting easier and easier. But this one was a really fun re-do of a sturdy but ugly little kitchen table to create a coastal cottage style table. Here’s what I did:

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Mix and Match Dining Table and Chairs

I love having a dining room, but I don’t love it if it feels too formal and stiff. That’s one of the reasons I always have a mix and match dining room table and chairs set. Not only does a mix and match set keep the room from feeling a bit too stuffy, it also can set off the contrasting finishes. We recently had to change our dining table and chairs and here’s why…

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Grow Green Grass For Your Table

HometoCottage.com Grow Green Grass For Your Table

A couple of years ago was the first time I tried my hand at growing grass indoors for my dining table. That was in our former house, where we had a large bank of southern windows in that room that offered tons of great light for successful indoor grass growing…

But not in our new 100 year old home, our dining room here faces east, so we get lovely morning light, but not that direct full sun throughout the day. So here’s what I’m trying this year to get some grass growing in a container on my dining table: Read the rest of this entry

Serving Up a Romantic Centerpiece for Valentine’s Day

All the Christmas decorations have been put away for a few weeks, and now I’m ready to get a little Valentine’s Day decor out. However, I’m really not in the mood for a bunch of hearts and ‘busy stuff’ this year. I decided instead to do a romantic centerpiece, that certainly works for Valentine’s day decor, but also will just look lovely on the table for the next month regardless of the upcoming holiday. (And a trip through HomeGoods helped with the inspiration. After 3 times around the store, I started to visualize a lovely centerpiece) Read the rest of this entry

Breakfast Room: Before & After Part 2

Last week I showed you this:

 

If you missed part 1, click here to see the demo!

This week I’m going to share with you the 2nd half of our newly renovated breakfast room. Read the rest of this entry

Someone Else’s House… Antique Craftsman Style Home’s Dining Room ReDo

The dining room in this antique craftsman is now gorgeous!

This is the dining room that belongs to the young couple of the home which I’ve already shown you the Master Bedroom, the Anthropologie Styled Bathroom, the Creatively Numbered Stairway, with the Amazing Closet Transformation, the Amazing DIY Wall Pot Rack, the Living Room Fireplace, with Horse Inspired Details, and now here is the before and after of this now gorgeous dining room.

The dining room has through the decades click here to read the rest of the story…

Burlap and Jute Give Wonderful Texture to this Table Re-Do

Let’s just start out right away with the before:

Here are the things I like about this table… I like that it has storage, I like the shape, I even like the wood graining technique on the brown part. But I do not like and never have liked the green panels with the flowers. They just aren’t painted in my favorite style or something…

I’ve been debating with myself ever since I bought this little table/cabinet from HomeGoods several years ago, why did I buy it if I didn’t like the way the green part looked… but since I did buy it that way, didn’t I need to ‘live with it’? I typically would have no problem selling it, but the size and shape and storage have been so darn useful, that I haven’t wanted to totally part with it.

But guess what? I finally came up with what I think is a great way to re-do it… well just the green panel parts… I decided to use click here to read the rest of the story…

Wedding Reception… North Carolina Style in the Pavillion… Lighting up a Magical Night

Earlier this summer I went to North Carolina to take part in helping decorate for a friend’s daughter’s wedding and reception.

Both the wedding and reception were held outside on the groom’s parent’s property. Some of the tables were on the dock, some on the patio just outside the pavilion and some Read on…

My Second Favorite Animal is a Songbird… Painting this Table Shows It

My 7 year old granddaughter always asks me what my favorite animal is… I always answer with ‘dog’. But now, she’s starting asking me what my ‘second’ favorite animal is since she knows ‘dog’ is my ‘first’. I love a lot of animals, elephants are for sure way up at the top of my list, but they don’t live around me, so picking an animal that is influencing my daily life, I think I’d have to say my ‘second’ favorite is/are songbirds.

I love the security of the promise Jesus tells us in Matthew 6: 26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?”

 

So when I decided to paint a wicker side table, that has a wooden round top, I decided that an American Redstart songbird would be the design in the center. READ ON…

Our House: Vintage Enamel Top Table finds New Life on the Porch

I’m so happy to tell you that the ‘pergola-turned-porch’ is done, I’ll do a full reveal on Tuesday, July 3 of that, but for today, I wanted to show a table I have on that finished porch:

This crackle paint treatment is the real deal! I have done nothing to it, age and years of being outside in the elements did to it. READ ON…