Category: Curbside rescue
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Buffet Table With History
The best time to shop for anything at a resale shop or an auction is when no one else is willing to be out shopping. If you want the best deals go when it is raining, early in the morning or, like we just did, when it is blazing hot. It was 102 on the […]
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Curbside Headboard Into Garage Chalkboard
The best time to go trolling for curbside finds is Saturday afternoon just before dark. The very best time to go hunting is the weekend of the huge neighborhood garage sale near our current city house. The garage sale occurs every spring and the finds over the year have helped furnish our lake house and […]
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The Junk Fairy End Table
When we returned from seeing The Southern Belle, we were greeted at the front door by this beauty. The junk fairy apparently made a visit while we were gone! I knew that this dude was worth saving, but we just don’t have a place for it. I know it sounds crazy but I do not […]
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Reusing a Window
My friend, the social planner, found this window along with another where a house was being remodeled. She wanted to turn it in to a hang up rack for her soon to be started mud room. It had great old paint and the glass was not cracked. Up at the Garagemahal we have tools, paint, […]
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Fixing the Schoolhouse Desk
The broken desk is now reassembled. Hubby, who will not let me defile the desk with paint, is stripping the entire piece of all varnish. I really am proud of all that he has done. The desk went from this broken piece of furniture. Back to a great piece. All the parts had to be […]