vintage style, cottage living, home cooking
Happy Tuesday! And it’s time for me to share my thrifted Buffet Makeover! I am seriously so excited to share my thrifted buffet with you today.
You know how you are looking for something, and you KNOW exactly what it is, but you haven’t ever seen one before? Well that is how this was for me.
I was at the thrift store crossing my fingers for a dresser type thing to hold some of my crafts. My vintage cupboard holds the other crafts. But, I have SO many, I needed another cupboard.
Anyway…As you can see I like pillows. They make me feel at home, and cozy. How about you??
I made this pillow when I first starting changing our home from deep reds and golds to lighter whites and blues. I still don’t even know why I chose this fabric. Sometimes I just have brain freezes like that.
It’s the first Monday in January. Isn’t that crazy?? Wasn’t I just sharing Thanksgiving ideas and recipes with you?? Today, since we are in the middle of Winter everywhere in the northern hemisphere, I’ve Got The Monday Blues with Living Room Winter Decor. And I think you will really like it.
Using what I already own, I moved a few things around for a new look in our living room/dining area.
As you walk in to our home and look straight ahead, this is what you will see.
I brought in the large mirror that was in the Office/ TV Room and switched it out with a family frame with pictures of our 7 kids and their families..
I have got to say-I am loving the Winter look in our home.
I thought by removing the Christmas ornaments, it looks more like a Winter feel.
It all started when I was putting together my Winter shelves.
This Winter vignette is on my thrifted buffet which has only been primed. (My Dad got really sick, Thanksgiving was here, kids were visiting and then it was Christmas. Hopefully next week I will get to painting it)
Anyway, I kept my crystallized wreath from Christmas, and used my candlesticks as holders for the prettiest white glitter “pine coneish” ornaments. I just HAD to keep them as part of my Winter look.
The pecan and pine cone garland and the white ceramic birds are rustic enough for Winter, as well. The little white specs are crystals that resemble ice.
I am in L O V E with the new look here on my vintage cupboard. I like using the candy canes to add a little red reminder of Christmas and Valentines Day coming soon.
The balance of the clear glass with the mirrors is perfect. I can still the mirrors without taking away from there beauty.
I used gold paint for the pecans on my Winter Shelves and I thought silver pecans would look really good with some Epsom salts on this cupboard, too.
Now on to the living room.
I have so much fun filling my Grandpa’s croquet box. I kept most of the Christmas look along with the vintage blue bottles. I think it looks great on our thrifted coffee table!!
The wire basket is filled with wood, pine cones and glittered spheres. (No, I don’t have a fire place. I am just pretending that I do.) Weird???
a close up of the croquet box and vintage bottles. By the way, each bottle was a thrift find.
And yet another look at the croquet box. Can you tell I am a little obsessed with it??? I love using book page cones, too. I like filling jars and bottles with them all year long.
So, if you were to enter our home right now, this very day you would know that I’ve Got The Monday Blues with Living Room Winter Decor, right???
PS-I have to give a HUGE shout out to Hubby for the new camera he got me for Christmas! That’s why my pictures are now clear and detailed!! Thanks Hubby!!
Thanks everyone for stopping by today and joining me for I’ve Got The Monday Blues with Living Room Winter Decor. It gets my creative juices going for a whole new post about my thrifted buffet. (Can’t wait to finish that puppy!!)
Make it a blue Monday!
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I hope you have been enjoying Simply The BEST of 2013!! Now it is my turn to share Simply The Best of 2013-What Meegan Makes. What Meegan Makes started on Dec 27, 2011. Yep, it has been 2 full years of posts, creativity, amazing followers, and lots of fun friendships. Thanks so much for joining me on this journey of What Meegan Makes. It was a very slow start. I was doing blogging all on my own until about a year ago. I “met” some amazing bloggers that invited me to their “groups” and “troops” to help spread the word about my blog. I am SO grateful from them. (There are too many to mention) I am a blessed woman, without a doubt.
I am looking forward to a new year full of ideas, inspiration and a new look. Hopefully, my blog will continue to be a place of inspiration, recipes, thrifting, and wonderful thoughts for you to visit each day. I also hope to make the blog more accessible for all of my readers and followers. It will be a fabulous year!!
Below is the full run down and schedule for Simply THE BEST:
Sunday December 29th:
Monday December 30th:
Tuesday December 31st:
CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL DO-IT-YOURSELFER
With that being said let’s see Simple the BEST of 2013-What Meegan Makes…
Hang Decorative Plates With Hot Glue and Paper Clips
22 Ways To Use Barn Wood Boxes
$10 Thrifted and Painted Chairs
Quick and Easy Gift for Mother’s Day
Epsom Salt Christmas Jars (This post had my all time high hits in one day!)
Butter Lemon Snow Drops (This post was actually picked up by Pillsbury, and used on their site here. Woot woot!)
For some fun What Meegan Makes trivia: these last 2 posts below are clicked on EVERYDAY!! Even though they are from 2012. Cool, huh???
Dyeing Coffee Filters with Food Coloring
There you have it!! Simply the BEST from What Meegan Makes 2013. Thanks for letting me share the highlights from my blog in 2013. May there be many, many more posts to bring light to your days!!
Make it a Happy New Year!!
