vintage style, cottage living, home cooking
Happy First Day of October! It’s time for What Meegan Makes Fall Tour and I am inviting you along! I can hardly wait to share my Fall Tour with you. I mixed old and new projects, fresh and fake pumpkins, along with some ideas I can’t resist sharing with you on the What Meegan Makes Fall Tour.
So, whatta you say? Let’s get this tour on the road!
Hello Hello! Have you been as busy as I have been? I can only imagine that you have. I am now I am happy to share a living room update, thrifting, and deals.
I have been to just about every thrift store around looking for a new coffee table. Ours is just a little too large for our space. One day I dropped Hubby off at work, saw a Garage Sale sign, and I pulled right in. Looky what I found!!
Yep, I found a new coffee table for $15. He had it marked for $20 but I got it for $15-SCORE! Still wondering if I should paint her. What do you think?
After visiting and looking through several thrift stores the same day, I found this beauty for $3:
It’s a true vintage mirror. It was leaning up against the shelves, on the floor. Just waiting for me to pick her up. I saw the shape and the price and I KNEW I needed her.
I know I shared my living room update a few weeks ago. I mentioned then that I was looking for a new rug.
I shopped and shopped for a new rug. While I looked and browsed I found these candlesticks:
Don’t you love the color blue and the mercury glass together? SO pretty and again, calling my name to buy them…
Can you see why I NEEDED them?? Look at that price!! Target was good to me that day.
While still rug shopping, I bought 3 rugs. Tried them all out, and nothing seemed to work until I found this lovely…
Again, at Target. Doesn’t the rug look great with my $15 coffee table? Love it!!
With the coffee table and new candlesticks, this place is looking great!
Doesn’t she look lovely with the bookshelves???
Here’s the difference:
Yep, I would say I made a great choice. It is light, with a bold print, and just the right colors to add in our living room.
I would say my living room update, thrifting and deals were a great success, wouldn’t you???
What good deals have you found recently? What have you been looking for for awhile to change up your home? For me it was a rug. I am so happy to have finally found one just right for us.
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I finally got around to it. And, loving the results! It was easy and didn’t even take me too long.
It’s Field Trip Friday!! I am excited to show you my “New” living room. No, we haven’t moved out of our place, but we HAVE moved furniture around to give us a whole new look and feel.
I can hardly wait to start the tour!
My living room used to look like this as of last Friday:
I posted My Living Room Makeover last year around this time. It looks nice, right? It’s open and feels like a home. I was really happy with the feel I was creating. And, I still am working on the look and feel I want to create.
But, after thinking, pondering, and finally having in my head what I REALLY wanted, this is what I did.
Now as you walk in the door, this is what you will see. Wow! It’s SO open now! You can feel how much room we made by moving the sofa at an angle. I like the look of the grandfather clock behind the sofa. It is like layering your clothes. You can layer furniture as well. And then with my grandpa’s wooden chest flanked to the left of the sofa, it is warm and inviting.
I love this vignette with my Fleur Box,my painted lamp, a vase filled with various blue marbles, and of course my blue insulators.
As you look further to the left you can get a better idea of how the WHOLE room looks, now. I love that you can see the shutter next to the Grandfather clock. They pair well together, don’t they? It’s really hard to see my curtains, but they are sheets from good ol’ Walmart. Yep, I clipped them onto a curtain rod and now they are perfect for this room.
I REALLY like the chair in this corner. The framed girl portrait is a print. It is one of our family favorites. We often try to guess what she is thinking. Is she waiting for someone, has she just said good-bye to her love, is she sad, how old is she? It’s kind of a fun little game we all like to play.
Doesn’t the chair look happy with the lamp behind her. If you look in the first picture, you will notice that I have painted my lamp stand Antique Gray from Ace hardware. Yes, I also made the lampshade flowers to add some softness to the room.
I made the pillow before I even started blogging, but you can find the instructions here. A more full look at the bookshelves. If you notice, in the first picture all of the books have a dark cover. I turned ALL of the books around so that only the pages show, rather than the bound side. It creates a softer look for the whole area, don’t you think? Then I didn’t have to recover the books, either. Saved me a lot of time. Also framing the book page wreath makes it an art piece, rather than a seasonal piece.
And this is what it looks like as you walk in as you look to your far right. I love the feel and look of this room now. I seriously walk into this room and smile every time I see it. I love all of the layers. NOW, it feels like Meegan is at home.
Now I am just looking for a new rug. I have been for months. I might just need to make my own shower curtain rug, so I get what I really like and want.
I hope you have enjoyed my Field Trip Friday “new” living room tour. It is really fun for me to share it with you!
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