barn door meets desk drawers...

You know that cleaning isn't really cleaning to me unless I can rearrange something ~ 

or even better... 

make something!

meet my new favorite piece in the whole house!

it's barn door meets desk drawers!

I have had the barn door all summer, 

I got it from Nancy's sale,

Thank you Nancy!!

it's huge, 7 1/2 feet long

(sadly, mostly leaned up against a tree in the back yard)

and then a few weeks ago while running errands,

I popped into a garage sale and found the two desk pieces.

The man sold them for both, the top was no where to be found,

but that was o.k. I already knew that I had the PERFECT top!

are you ready for this?

The whole piece was only $30.00 to make!

Doing something nice for my house felt sooooo good,

that I decided to continue and actually clean it!

Oh my gosh, it has been ignored all summer but you know how it goes,

as soon as inspiration hits, you grab it!

I love the new shelves in the kitchen also,

they add that industrial look that I love.

I'm hoping that the sun will cooperate soon and I can take some non-blurry pics.

but I couldn't wait...

I was just too excited to show all of you my new barn door counter!

Thanks for stopping by!

love,

Theresa

xoxoxoxo

linking to:

White Wednesday

Primp Your Stuff Wednesday

Transformation Thursday

Vintage Inspiration Friday

in from the barn. again...

 I have not liked our coffee table for a while now.

So what's a girl to do?

Go to the barn...

I have had both of these pieces for a long time now. 

The table top I found at a garage sale. 

Actually, I found both pieces at garage sales

(go figure!)

I digress, I fell in love with the table that the top came with, most specifically the top.



I love that detail, those points just made it all girly for me.

love.

but the bottom was broken, all wobbly, unfixable.

So as I was cleaning today I had an AHA moment when I looked at this pedestal base with new eyes.

It is actually the pedestal that was the base of this girl when I bought her.

love.

But she doesn't sit on it anymore, and she hasn't for awhile now.

The pedestal had a basket of yarn and crochet projects on it and she stands here.

see her through the doorway?

I really need to paint that dresser too.

so many projects, so little time...

The elements outdoors were doing way too much damage to her so I brought her inside over a year ago and am so happy I did.  I think she adds a bit of grace to our dining room.

and honestly if you were sitting around our dinner table and could hear some of the conversations that go on then you would understand why we need a bit of grace and eloquence!

So she didn't need that base anymore, but we needed a new coffee table...

So the top was from the barn

and the bottom was being used as a yarn holder...

next up...

Paint the two pieces to match and make some pillows that I can get these hooligans to keep on the couches!

Actually I took the drop cloth pillows that I had made for these couches and put them on the chairs on the front porch.  It really does drive me a bit crazy to get them all fluffed and looking fabulous, then leave the room for 5 minutes and come back to find them on the floor.  Truth be told the top of the table would look fabulous with some treasures on it but then when Duane puts his feet up on it, and the computers are set down on it, and there is homework being done on it, or we have snacks on it...

you see my dilemma?

Don't sweat the small stuff, right?

Thanks for stopping by!

love,

Theresa xoxo

I'm linking up to White Wednesday, Wow Us Wednesday, Transformation Thursday,

 and Vintage Inspiration Friday