The one that got away…again…

For those of you that have been reading this blog for awhile you know I have a horrible problem of second guessing items at thrift stores, obsessing about them, sleeping on it, deciding I really want it and returning the next day to only see an empty space where my dream item use to live.

 

Well I finally decided I need to stick to my guns and trust my instincts. I realized if I didn’t end up using it a client could eventually or I could just sell it.

 

Yesterday while sourcing items for clients at my favorite thrift store I spotted this beauty:

Swoon a large, velvet, tufted, ORANGE ottoman! Be still my heart it was meant to go in my living room. I made a beeline towards it ready to haul it over to the register.

 

Yeah well it looks like someone else beat me to the punch.  As I walked over I saw the big red sold tag on it. A mover from the shop told me it had literally been bought 3 minutes ago!!!!!!!

 

So sad! I went and sat on it for a while just to pretend what it be like to have it in my house and secretly wished that the new owner would come back, see me sitting on it and decide that it was meant to be mine and sell it to me.

 

Didn’t happen. I checked out the whole thing in the hopes of finding a rip or stain that would make me feel better that it got away from me. Nothing only a tag from Kravet and a $68 price tag!!!!!!!!!

 

Seriously considering getting a part time job at the shop so I can get first dibs on everything.

 

:) Jon is already building me a shed out back to feed my vintage furniture addiction.

Highs & Lows of the week

So you already know that one of my low points this was heading back to the thrift store and finding my lamps missing.

 

Yesterday I decided to head out to another Thrift store that has everything 25% off on Thursdays. So happy I did, because high point of the week was picking up these following items:

 

This pillow reminded me of Jonathan Adler so in the cart it went. Normally I don’t pick up pillows at thrift stores, but it’s zippered so I can get a new pillow form for it and wash the cover! Only $6 bucks!

I wish there had been two of these guys below, but alas I only found one for $3. It just needs a new coat of spraypaint and it will be brand new!

Doesn’t it remind you of these?

 

Have no clue what I’m going to do with this mirror, but at $6.99 it also went in the cart. Perhaps a lucky client will get it!

 

Another completely random purchase were these curtain panels for $10. I don’t need them at the moment, but I loved all of the colors and know they will look great in a stylish gals apt. Now I just need a client to fit the bill!

3 lovely roomies will be enjoying my last thrift store find. These amazing bamboo chairs will be getting a coat of kelly green paint and moving on up to the Upper East Side.

Another high of the week was coming home later that day and packing for my trip.

But a huge LOW came this morning when we checked our flight on DELTA and saw that it had been CANCELLED, because of this:

I’m beyond upset. I was all set to fly into DC tonight and spend some time with Daniela and Lauren along with a detour to Baltimore to hit up De Bois and see Meg.

 

So sad!

Thrifting with the click of a mouse

All of this week I’ve been fighting a cold! Lots of sneezing, a bit of a sore throat and a weird light headed feeling has left me doing most of my work near the closest sofa to ensure constant breaks.

Hmm wonder if the cold meds are making my design visions better or worse? :)

Of course I hate being home sick, but what’s been driving me crazy is not leaving the house and checking out my local thrift shops. I literally had a dream last night of treasures being stolen out of hands!

What’s a girl to do? In order to try and stop the heart palpitations I did the next best thing and logged on to Housing Works online shopping!

Check out these gems that could make it to my house or clients in only a couple of clicks!

Lillian August Sofa: Current bid $211.00

Alpine Black Lacquered Chest: Current bid $45.00

Lucite and Vinyl Stools: Current bid: $75.00

Oblong Petit Point Stool: Current bid $45.00

Ah! So many finds! So happy I was able to get my thrifting fix while I was under the weather.

The sniffles have subsided a bit and I need to venture out today to the bank so I wouldn’t put it past me to make a little detour at a thrift shop just to check everything out!

Don’t forget to enter the $100 SHOPBOP give-away! Totally jealous I can’t enter it myself!!!!!

Weekend Recap

Hello My loves,

So I’ve been totally excited to share with everyone the steal that I got over the weekend at a local thrift shop! I get up this morning totally excited and grab my camera to take pictures and of course the battery is dead! It needed to charge, which meant this blogger needed to calm down and wait for it to do so.

Well the battery has now charged and I snapped some shots for all to see!

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now you will know that my dining room has been quite the sore spot for me. You can read more about here and here. I'll be in my house 2 years this coming January and in that time I have gone through two sets of furniture for my dining room.

Most recently my dining room looked like this:

Yes folks, your eyes are not deceiving you that is a plastic table with plastic chairs. I call it outdoor chic.

Since I have already gone through 2 sets that didn’t work out for one reason or another I decided to take my time and find the perfect thing. So since Feb my dining room has looked like the image above.

On Saturday I went to a thrift shop to search for some furniture for my SIL who is moving into her own apt in the beginning of July and would like to get everything with the price tag of FREE! Well the thrift store is the closest I can get to that.

So off I went with my hubby. (Yes I dragged him there as well. The poor guy gets taken on all my decorating adventures)  Of course the two sofas I had scouted out for my SIL earlier in the week were already sold, but I found dining room furniture!

I originally had my heart set out to get something from Martha Stewart. I love the classic lines her furniture has and how they look a bit traditional, but more importantly chic and timeless.

  Example of Martha Stewart’s Dining Room Furniture collection.

Since I still wanted to have money to you know by food and stuff I put MS furniture on the back burner and tried to search for something similar in style.

Enter my amazing find from this weekend:

 The color is a bit deeper in person, but isn’t that veneer amazing?

The table is a double pedestal, which I really wanted and fits in the space perfectly.

It came with 6 chairs that I’m going to paint to not have everything look so matchy-matchy and of course we need some new fabric for the seat. I also on the hunt for two amazing upholstered chairs for the heads of the table.

 

The glasswork on the piece is amazing. In all the 3 pieces the glass is bowed. The pieces on the left and the right had a diamond design in gold leaf. I didn’t really enjoy it so with a razor blade I was able to scrape it up. By “I” I totally mean Jon did most of it, but I helped!

The most amazing thing was the price! It was originally around $900 at the Thrift Shop. It had been there for a couple of months so when I went in last Monday it was done to $589. Then I went back with Jon on Saturday and it has on sale again for $488. Then I asked if there was any wiggle room on the price and got them down to $445!

We were able to fit the table and four chairs in Jon’s chair right away so we packed it up and hurried home. Getting the china cabinet was a little more difficult. It is only one piece so you can’t separate it and it was too large to fit in Jon’s Highlander.

So we went to Home Depot where we kinda lied and said we needed to rent the flatbed truck for something large we were buying there. Then as soon as we got the keys we ran out, didn’t buy anything, drove to the thrift store, picked up the china cabinet and 2 chairs, drove home and then back to home depot and returned it. Ah of course the home depot, thrift store and our home were in completely different towns so it was quite a bit of driving, but it only cost us $30 to use their truck!

I’m super excited, because now I have extra funds to get amazing wallpaper, fabric and lighting! Plus we need a server for the opposite side of the room, but I’m hoping I can find a thrift store find for that!

Whew, if you read all that then Congrats! I was so excited to get it and even more excited to share it with you all. I can already see it coming together and of course you are going to come along for the ride. I think I’m going to tackle my wallpaper pick first and of course I’ll want opinions.