Another Pressback Chair Makeover!

This might be my favorite chair that I own. It was my great grandmother's, and dates from the turn of the twentieth century. It has a beautiful Art Nouveau design pressed into it. My mom also has its sibling, which we have now painted a cottage grey. These chairs have a long history of makeovers. First they had the typical late Victorian dark stain and finish, which had bubbled up nicely by the time my mom decided they needed their first makeover in the 1960's. This saddens me, I sure would have loved to see their original finish...but moving on. My mom painted the chairs red and then an antiquing glaze over it. Then in the 1990's she sanded them both down with the intentions of repainting and never did. So when I got my chair it was sanded with leftover red paint in places. I decided to do a black over red with distressing, since the red was already there. Then I put a top coat of Minwax polycrylic over it. I think my chair looks amazing! Check it out.

Hang a Quilt on the Wall!!

I decided to display my great grandmother's feed sack quilt from the 1920's or 30's on the wall of our dining room. It goes great with the rustic direction in which our decor has gone in that room. I've been influenced by early American decorating and primitive furnishings lately, and I love the history that it conjures up in my mind. I also painted three chairs black in that style. Oh! And I almost forgot, we decided to paint our table top red, instead of the stenciling. In the end the pattern fought with the quilt pattern, and the red is more rustic anyway. Always evolving!

Vintage Flower Print Table Cloth

I found this gorgeous rose print table cloth at a consignment shop a few weeks ago. It is in perfect condition, you can tell someone really took care of it. Since it is rectangular, my table is round, and the decor of the dining room is a little different from pink roses...I started to wonder what else I could do with it. Turns out our bedroom is nothing BUT flower prints, so I decided to use it in there. I wanted to make pillow shams, but then I wondered if one day I wouldn't want to use it as a table cloth. So, I decided to just lay it across the pillows. Perfect size! And it looks like shams once the throw pillows are on. Score! A $6 well spent.