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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - May 26 2007 : 10:17:34 PM
let us know some of your fun (and quick and easy) decorating ideas that you have come across ..
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| simplypaige |
Posted - Sep 13 2007 : 7:05:16 PM
In the last few years we moved into an old farmhouse with a fully enclosed back porch. I loved the light but it seemed very cold(especially in the winter). There is a total of eight windows and it was going to be very costly for curtains. So one day I had the idea of hanging a curtain rod up and layering old embroirdered pillowcases over that I had saved and collected. It turned out beautiful. I could use up so many that had small tears and stains on them due to the fact you can fold them and layer over it. I have purchased most of these for only $1-$2. It has really made this room and I think it could be used anywhere in the house. |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 08 2007 : 8:48:44 PM
kathie, how did you seal that counter top, and can you use it as if it was a formica top or what have you, can you roll out breads and what not or do you have to "baby" it?
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| bboopster |
Posted - Sep 08 2007 : 2:53:37 PM
Hello,
I collected small branches from the last storm of oak leaves some dry, some green,some with acorns, and arranged them in vases around my house. Free and interesting for that fall look. 
3 Blue Star Mother and Proud of it!
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
| mommatracy |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 12:14:54 PM
Winona, I know this post has been up for awhile. You mentioned that you live in a large 5th wheel. How long have you lived in it and what made you decide to do it? It sounds wonderful and I love your address:Close to Grants Pass, Oregon. Didn't I read on another post that you have planted shrubs and maybe a small garden? It's been a while since I read it? My husband is trying to decide if he wants a 5th wheel or a camper. Maybe the 5th wheel is more stable to haul done the highway? |
| Kathie |
Posted - Aug 04 2007 : 5:16:39 PM
Lorna.. What color are you Painting the living room?
I DID have mine a kind of Pistachio green.. which when i 1st told people about they went "Oh.. REALLY" but after seeing it.. they went 'OH!! COOL" so yeah.. i liked it.. but..three years later.. i changed it.. it's now a beige =ish .. hey.. it's actualy almost the back ground of the screen here.. you know.. that color behind the 'jump to' area? But it seems so blah on the walls.. you don't notice any color at all.. which is really what i was going for.. i guess.. since i DO have So much junk on the walls..
i don't know.. just feellike I want to change it again.. & i really just did it.. like.. less then a year ago..
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
| cabinmoose |
Posted - Aug 04 2007 : 08:40:07 AM
Kathie,
That is georgous!!!! I love it.
Also for the quilts. I have bought inexpensive black wrought iron curtain rods and hung my quilts from them....all around the room. They look awesome!
I don't have any hanging right now becuase I gotta paint the living room and that is where I display most of them but they should be up in a month or so and I will post a pic then.
You can use the clips that slide over the rod if the quilt is not too delicate or I have also folded the top over the rod and use safety pins on the back to secure it the quilt to itself just wraping it over slightly.
Everyone who saw them loved the display.
Hugs,
Lorna
Forest Hill, MD
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too, So we're really
not that different, me and you.” ~Colin Raye |
| cabinmoose |
Posted - Aug 04 2007 : 08:34:12 AM
Frannie,
Go to Sherwin Williams and check out their Craftsman Brown. It is my absolute favorite paint color....lol I always call it cardboard...lol
But I used in in our old house in the family room and while it was brown in color it was just a warm and inviting room. I am now using it here in the new house too. Creature of habit I guess.
Hugs,
Lorna
Forest Hill, MD
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too, So we're really
not that different, me and you.” ~Colin Raye |
| mima |
Posted - Aug 04 2007 : 08:22:10 AM
Kathie! Thank is BRILLIANT! You are an amazing artist!!!!! |
| Kathie |
Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 4:55:40 PM
Thanks Barbara!!
Your pretty Ingenious & thrifty there too girlfriend!!
I just couldn't make myself spend money on a countertop i didn't want in the first place! That i KNEW Didn't really go with ME..
you know.. weird & quirky.. That's sometimes a bit hard to find.. so selfcreating seems to work best..
the lamp thing reminds me though..
I wonder how the Burlap would look on a lamp shade?
& may have to try that..i love Burlap..the look & the texture of it!
i DID actually try something funny with another lamp that i have.. I'll have to take a picture of it too I guess..!
I call it my "Quilt Lamp" but actually it's just strips of fabric around the lamp shade.. & i stitched them together!
Did you get a chance to see that lamp that was filled with Yo-Yo pieces? Wow.. THAT is my goal.. I just have to find a dang glass lamp now.. Anyother time I'm knocking them over everytable at every yard sale i go to!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
| Duchess |
Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 4:38:18 PM
Well I for one think you did a wonderful job Kathie, tearing it like you did gives it interest as well as the different shades. It is amazing what we can do when we need to. It took courage to jump in and try something like that, I applaud you.
Back in the dark ages the dog ate part of the center cushion on my couch and I covered it in black vinyl, then used scraps of that to cover tops of old coffee tables. I used those brass tacks with the textured tops around the edges. I had been given some old furniture not in good shape, I also painted some ugly lamps and covered the shades with some pretty print fabric. I used burlap for curtains and colorful fringe for type backs. All in all it came out well and was very inexpensive. I have found that something as simple as a different color throw over the couch or chair can give a whole different look. I also take pieces of fabric and use velcro to fasten over pillow for different looks.
Best to all Barbara |
| Kathie |
Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 3:09:59 PM
OK!! Found this Thread..
Lost it there for a bit.. yes.. both the Thread.. & my mind thanks..!
But here we all are again!!!!
ANYWAY.. I'd told you all once how I did my Kitchen Counter's.. & I KNOW some of you were goin'
" Ummm.. yeah.. okay Kathie.. sounds REALLY nice.. Brown Paper Bags & Glue on your counters.. Cute idea.. Really.. " & then nudging your husband & saying.. "listen to what this nut Job is doing NOW!"
Well ..!! Photo Opportunities !!!
Ta Da !!!!
Really.. don't hold back.. What do ya think?
Cool huh?
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
| a rose |
Posted - Jul 17 2007 : 3:36:24 PM
Alee, I would love to have white sheets. Are they just flat, and are they double bed size?
Linda
Remember me as a rose. |
| Alee |
Posted - Jul 12 2007 : 6:58:32 PM
Amie or Anyone-
If you ever need white sheet- email me and I can send them to you for the price of postage. I get the for free from a nice hotel here in town and they work great as curtains or drop clothes or whatever! :)
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora! |
| Amie C. |
Posted - Jul 12 2007 : 11:55:30 AM
Along the same lines as saving interesting bottles, I also put flowers in drinking glasses that have gotten a crack or chip. It's nice not to have to throw away a favorite glass.
Sheets and table cloths make great panel-type curtains for a long window. The sheets already have a channel sewed at one end that goes over the rod. I have some beautiful white linen table cloths clipped onto tension rods for my living room curtains.
I like to display small things, like dried flowers or shells, in a row of canning jars (the old kind, with glass lids). They look nice and it keeps them from getting dusty. I've saved the dried flowers from my wedding bouquet this way. |
| corporatefarmgirl |
Posted - Jul 12 2007 : 10:13:48 AM
Here is a couple of ideas
Once we had a old refrigerator that needed to be updated really bad. I lightly sanded it and covered it with contact paper. People thought I had a designer frig.
One of my daughters had a room where the pillows were made out of old jeans we would cut off the legs ( save for fringe quilt, sew the bottom part shut and stuff the waist with polyfil and then sew up the top super cute. The girls would sometimes embelish the pockets
Wild flowers in quart jars dress up every room!!!
there is a seed to plant in every heart |
| Kathie |
Posted - Jul 11 2007 : 3:54:23 PM
That does sound really cute too.. doesn't it??
Did i ever tell you all what I did in my living room?
I LOVE quilts.. ANY quilts.. no matter what the shapen or condition..
& i have alot of them.. & am always looking for ways to display them.. some of them though are in really sad shape.. & are pretty delicate.. you know. nearly falling apart.. but hold some great memories for some one. once upon a time!! So i do try to show them all off..
ok.. well i have take apart this thing I found.. I do think it may have even been intended for either a Quilt stand.. Or.. possibly even a drying rack.. it was hinged.. & had two seperat sides.. equal sized.. Took the hinges apart.. hung it by hooks on either side of my living room Window.. you know.. sort of like a Shutter but INSIDE the living room.. not outside naturaly.. & each shutter has maybe three spokes on it.. & i have hung quilt on them each.. so.. My INSIDE shutters are just beautiful old quilts.. Beautiful window Treatments!!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
| Alee |
Posted - Jul 11 2007 : 3:01:52 PM
What a cute idea!! Oh my gosh! I am going to have to try that!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora! |
| PlumCreekMama |
Posted - Jul 11 2007 : 09:03:51 AM
Something I saw at a nearby country-themed restaurant and have always wanted to do: they have old tin cups (with handles) nailed up one at each top corner of the windows and have a long piece of material for a curtain. The handles on the cups hold the curtain. It makes a nice swag at the top. I really think this would be neat for my kitchen. |
| Justimagine |
Posted - Jul 10 2007 : 3:40:44 PM
I had lunch at a friends house last week and she had done the cutest thing in her bathroom! She had hung a ladder horizontily from the ceiling above her bathtub. It was an old wooden ladder with round rungs and had been painted white and distressed with sandpaper to look old and worn. Then she had bunches of dried flowers hanging upside down from the rungs...and the cool thing was that the dried flowers had all been given to her over the years by her children and she had saved them... how cute is that? I could just imagine lying back in a bubble bath and gazing up at those dried flowers and remembering the special times that brought each little bunch... Kate~
"...out of the heart flow the wellsprings of life"
Proverbs 4:23
See what's springing up from Kate's heart today at www.Kate-Wells.com |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 03 2007 : 6:08:51 PM
alee . you are so right .. new (or fresh)paint changes the look of a room .. switching out summer and winter looks with accessories! (i'm just NOW putting away my mittens and gloves and scarves .. my favs .. that i had hanging on a hook!)
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 03 2007 : 3:51:20 PM
I like to switch how my living room looks by putting out different blankets or putting away all the blankets. It is amazing how much that can change how a room looks. That or just pulling my drapes back in a different way or tying their sashes differently.
Alee |
| Kathie |
Posted - May 30 2007 : 2:00:55 PM
Thank you Rosemary.. i really do like it.. & wished i had done it a long time ago!!!
Karin.. the floor is awesome! Lots of fun..
& entertaining for a little guy while your busy too.. Kind of like a "Where's Waldo" on the sewing room floor!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 29 2007 : 1:17:06 PM
Karin, that's adorable! I wish I knew how to decoupage...wonder how that would hold up to four dog's paws?
I collect old linens, among them, I have a passion for white hankies, and have a gazillion of them just sitting around in my closet. I haven't found curtains that I liked anywhere for our newly remodelled bedroom, and I wanted something "homespun", that also lets in light. I originally thought of a simple piece of pretty lace tablecloth, or dresser scarf, but I hit my collection of hankies. I ironed and lightly starched 9 hankies, and tacked them by each corner to make one large square panel (mine has 3 across, three down). I added those cool little hanging clips that you can hang tea towels with?? and hung them across a matted pewter tension rod inside the casing. I did it for both windows, and still have a million hankies left. It's great because I can push the "panel" aside when I want to let the day in, and it creates lovely shadows with all the different designs in the lace and cutouts of the hankies.
We are also in the process of ripping up our living room carpet and painting our old wood floors in large khaki and cream colored stripes. Let you know how that turns out!
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood
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| Rosemary |
Posted - May 29 2007 : 1:08:00 PM
Kathie, what a clever idea! I've seen something like that on those decorating shows where brilliant professional interior designers do over a room in someone's home, but usually, it's something like using colored tissue paper or even newspapers on walls, in lieu of wallpaper. Your idea is clever on a whole other level! I like the idea of using something so thoroughly associated with a kitchen, something so utterly homey, as grocery bags. Good for you! |
| Rosemary |
Posted - May 29 2007 : 1:02:48 PM
Hey Karin, thanks for the know-how! I'll ponder the project. Your decals are quite a custom touch! |
