My dining room was once stuck in the 1970’s mode. When we bought the house it came complete with brown paneling, chair rail, grape vine themed wallpaper boarder above the chair rail, carpet – yes carpet on the floors – and a very gold crystal beaded chandelier. I wish I had been blogging at the time so that I would…
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Small little footstools remind me of my grandmother. She had a small vintage one when I was growing up that we used to make-believe was a two story doll house, a mountain to climb, a spring to jump off of, and something we constantly moved out of her living room into other spaces making her look for it on a…
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Several years ago a friend of mine in Texas gave me a Christmas ornament made out of felt that looked like old fashioned underwear and contained candy. The candy holder/ornament also had a cute and catchy phase attached to it that said, “Went looking for a stocking and couldn’t find a spare. So we stuffed all your goodies in Santa’s…
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My daughter and I have been working on black and white Christmas ornaments for our white Christmas tree. Every year since I have owned this retro style white Christmas tree, I have decorated it in a new theme every year. This year it will be all black and white. This post contains affiliate links which help to support this blog….
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My dining room has the old fashioned, 1970’s style, wood paneling on half the wall. You know the type, made from laminated photographs of real wood, dark, cheap, and dated. One of the most common wall treatments found in homes built in the mid-century modern style. Recently we gave our dining room a new looked with painted wood paneling instead….
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