View from living room/front door. It's painted the same color as the living room. I like how it sets off my fruit plate collection. To the left is the kitchen.
This is the wall between the living room and kitchen. I call it my "gallery" wall. The furniture is an antique primitive drop front desk that I got at an auction about 30 years ago for $10. I have a collection of small crocks on top. The one on the right is holding a bunch of old church fans. Back in the day before a/c you used these to fan yourself at church. Most are advertising freebies from local funeral homes.
The lowest picture is by my grandfather tim Ferguson. I absolutely treasure this. He was a self-taught folk artist. I remember him bringing it to our house when he finished it in 1965. The picture above it is a vintage Grandma Moses Print in it's original frame. The top picture I pulled out of a trash pile. It's a really nice painting of the blue ridge mountains (where I live) There is no signature on it.
The computer armoire that doesn't hold a computer. I use it to store entertaining stuff. I collect Brown and Cream pottery and displayed the larger pieces on top. I used painted paper mache boxes from the craft store to make "levels" in the display.
Top of the china cupboard. My dining room furniture is early 60's Thomasville that belonged to the hubsters grandmother. I found I had collected several small wooden cabinets. I decided to paint them all the same color and display them as a group with some of the smaller pieces in my Brown & Cream Pottery collection. In the cupboard is my collection of Wexford glass. This was cheapo dimestore stuff in the 40's-60's. I inherited some pieces from my great-grandmother and that started the quest. You can still pick upieces at thrift stores fairly cheap.
Bookshelf with some of my cookbook collection. The lamop used to be painted in darker colors but a bit of Heritage White lightenerd it up. I'm thinking of recovering the lampshade in a lighter burlap.
Corner of the dining room. The little stand was a $1 yard sale find about 20 years ago. The "tree" is a vintage metal store display i stuck some mini baskets and vintage birds on. I plan on making small seasonal ornaments to decorate it.
Bucket bench in front of slider. This was a $3 goodwill find. I had painted it red but redid it in the Heritage White. It holds some of my jug collection and wooden bowls. The fruit in the bowl on the bottom is hand carved wood and was $3 for all at a yardsale. My curtains are good old Onansburg with rope tie-backs.
Top of the dining room table. I refinished it because it was dull and a mess and I hate tableclothes for every day. What a circus THAT was. It finally took 7 applications of citrus stripper to get out all the crap in the wood. I stained it "Provincial" to match the rest of the set and then applied 7 coats of hand-rubbed satin poly. It looks AMAZING now--you can see the wood grain. I plan on recovering the chair seats in a khaki fabric I have.
My cute assistant KaeKae helping me make the new living room and dining room curtains.
Supervising Mom is hard work!!!
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoy the tour!!
Tamera
