Painted Vintage Trunk Makeover

I have had this vintage trunk in our storage area about 5 years now, I have been meaning to paint it for a while now, I or should I say my hubby finally got around to painting it a couple weeks ago. See another pre-baby arrival makeover .. It's a far cry from the bright blue trunk that it was before.. see all the details below...

Wicker Nesting table Makeover

This was one simple, yet time consuming mini makeover. I bought these great wicker nesting tables at a online auction for $20... See all the details below..

Guest Bedroom ~ Soft Blues & White

This is one of our guest rooms on the upper floor. We currently live in a 4 bedroom home, with only 2 of the bedrooms in use by myself and my husband and the second by our daughter.. But don't kid yourself.. we NEED every bit of space, we live more up north and in the summers our house is packed with guests... you may have guessed it, we have a POOL!! We are like the summer cottage you drive to.. only an hour from the city :) I always try and make all of our rooms beautiful but also livable, I want our guests to feel at home when they come. This bedroom came with california shutters when we moved in which was a nice clean touch.. overall we didn't do too much to this room aside from paint it Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray and replace all the old carpet to fresh new neutral one. Now the room is soft and calming with a white and touches of soft aqua and pastel blue. 

Our Main Floor Recap

Here is a little Recap of all the tweaks we've done to our new home's main floor.. If you missed any of them you can click the Links to see each of our Room's more in depth.

This is our Dining room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Kitchen ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Kitchen Eating Area ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Family Room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Living Room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is my Hubby's Office ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

This is our Hall and Entry ~ See the full HALL REVEAL HERE & ENTRYWAY HERE

This is our Laundry Room ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

 This is our Powder Bath ~ See the FULL REVEAL HERE

Stay tuned for all the Upper Floor / Bedroom Reveals coming soon...

See Our FULL HOLIDAY HOME TOUR HERE

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French Provincial Chair Makeover

This amazing chair was another successful Kijiji find!.. I found 6 chairs plus a table.. for $60!! This has got to be one of my best DEALS yet!! I've been wanted cane back chairs for awhile now.. So I was super psyched when I found them. I love the detail on the chair.. and the quality and shape was impeccable! 

 The only drawback was it didn't mesh well with my fabulous ruffled slipcovers that I got for my other dining chairs.. The original plan was that I was going to replace the x-back chairs with the new cane back style. BUT the back of them doesn't accommodate the slipcover ties to tie a bow, and the seat size was a little too large.. so they didn't end up working! :( And you know I need my ruffles!!! So for that reason I will only be keeping 2 chairs for captain chairs. And will probably end up selling the rest.

The chairs have great bones and are well built.. sturdiness of vintage chairs is key!

I removed the fabric seat with my handy screw driver and started painting with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White. No primer required.. yay! It did take a while though.. I ended up applying 3 thin coats.. with a minimum of 1hr wait times in between..but the finished product was well worth it! It turned out to be a 2-day nap time project :)

The fabric seat cushion was actually in pretty great condition but the colour was a little too dark for the look I was going for.. So I covered it in this natural cotton Linen like material from Fabricland.

Now our new chairs flank the sides of our Dining Hutch.

 Wooden clover detailed mirrors hang above our new captains chairs.

If you missed it, you can see our FULL DINING ROOM REVEAL Here.

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Our Dining Room Reveal

I will be posting Our Christmas Room Reveal's soon..  So I wanted to make sure you got to see the way our home looks on a everyday basis first. Here is our Dining room Reveal. We fell in love with our new house for the backyard, the round arched doorways throughout and the fact that we finally had a separate dining area again! Even though it's our least used room in our house :( ..I'm working on changing that! The above before picture shows what it looked like when we purchased, with the previous owners decorating.. It showed very nicely when we saw it for the first time, it just wasn't our style.. As I have said before in previous posts.. We had professionals refinish all the hardwood flooring to a dark 'Ebony' tone. We actually didn't paint the walls in here, just added lots of our painted furniture for a softer, lighter look. To make the room appear bigger we switched the table direction to come out from the window. And changed out the old chandelier and all the window hardware and curtains to new, natural linen light weight curtains with white cotton sheers underneath. See more below.

In the corner of our dining room we have a mini bar cart set up. It is a metal stand with a marble top. It features a silver tray and a mix of empty vintage decanters and a glass ice bucket which I got from Homesense a few years ago. I'm not a true drinker.. so I always get flack for the decanters being EMPTY! For me it's just for looks ;)

On either side of the window we hung 2 Antique architectural drawings, framed in simple black Ikea Ribba Frames

Our Current Centrepiece is a wooden box filled with dried hydrangeas and vanilla scented candles. My favourite vanilla candles are the pillar ones from Ikea. Here I used two Hurricane glass vases to hold the ivory coloured candles. And for a little added french flair I wrapped the outside of the candles in a black striped jute webbing.

 

Our Dining hutch provides tons of much needed storage and display space.. currently it holds my granny's dishware set.. I just love the simple floral detail around the edge of the dishes.

I need all the display space I can get.. So I used the top of our hutch to display a few decor items.. A neutral vignette made up of Hydrangeas in a burlap wrapped vase, a wooden bunny and a white soup tureen. With a empty weathered chicken wire garden terrarium on the right side. 

Our Dining hutch was a Kijiji online find for only $75.. I absolutely love the metal grill detail over the glass. It was originally a darker wood, So to make it more my style I painted it Benjamin Moore Natural Linen and changed out the hardware.

See the full transformation here.

 We have 3 different types chairs in this space. I know it sounds like a lot of chairs for one room but because of the material and the colouring of them, they all play nicely together. The head chair's are made from a linen fabric with large metal studs, they were originally used in our previous home's kitchen. They are from Restoration Hardware. The X-back chairs were a Kijiji find that I painted BM Natural Linen to match our hutch and added white linen ruffled slipcovers. You can see the full X-back chair transformation here. Lastly the captain chair's on either side of our hutch are my latest kijiji find!! I fell in love with the french provincial look and the cane back detail .. I will be sharing more info on that amazing transformation coming soon...

Some of our Dining decor... Under one of the shutters I have a Wrought iron urn filled with simple moss balls from Restoration Hardware, displayed with a vintage demijohn jug.

This is our view from our hall into our dining room

Our White dining chandelier wasn't always white.. It used to be gold.. I spray painted it last year. And added the ornate ceiling Medallion for a vintage feel.

Here is Our Dining Chandelier 'Before' when it was Gold.. The white just freshens it up a bit!

See our Previous Dining Room HERE

We hung two wooden clover detail mirrors on either side of our hutch for balance and symmetry. The mirrors were a lucky Homesense find earlier this year.

This is our view from our attached, yet slightly separated Living room. 

Our Dining table is a Mahogany Duncan Phyfe style. Ideally I would love a more farm house style table in here, so for now I added this neutral ticking stripe table runner for a more casual look. The runner is from a great Etsy shop.. I make and sew a lot of items myself but when things are reasonable priced as this one was, sometimes it just easier just to purchase. The runner is a Khaki and Natural tone ticking stripe with a natural ruffle.. It just goes perfect with everything!!

Here is the view from our dining room into our Living room.

Full Living Room Reveal coming soon...

See our Dining Room all dressed up for the Holidays HERE

Thanks for looking.. If you liked this you may like our current Kitchen Reveal

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