Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Merrry Kitschmas!


Here we are, on Christmas Eve eve, waiting for that guy in the red suit and hoping for a snowy white Christmas here in Atlanta!  Jeff, our good friend Brian, and myself are all going to saddle up in the car tonight, eat some bbq and do our annual "Northcrest Tour of Lights"!  Look for the results tomorrow on Home Sweet Split Level!  There are really some impressive houses in the 'hood, but Brian's probably takes the cake!  He prides himself on riding that line between over-the-top awesome fun, without being tacky.  It really is spectacular this year!  Here is sneak peek...

Oh don't worry, he has added more since this picture!


And, last but not least, here are our holiday decorations this year.  I swore I was going to pull out all the stops, but I just didn't have time with everything going on this year.  I am determined to stock up on some crafty holiday supplies for next year's handmade holiday when everything goes on sale.  I did make the wreath I had been dreaming of this year, and I may have squealed when the handmade vintage felt deer ornaments went perfectly with it.  We also usually get a real tree, which I adore, but we weren't in town much earlier this month so we pulled out our old college tree.  It is so tiny that I had to put it up on boxes for it to fill the space!  Oh well, it is really about the ornaments to me anyway!  I adore a good vintage ornament, and I picked up several new ones this year....we are going to have to get a bigger tree eventually because all my ornaments won't fit!
Improvised vintage Santa tree-topper.



Awesome wrapping paper from Target.





Holiday Tea crafting.


Holiday House.


Best attempt at a holiday dog portrait.
Have the happiest of holidays, all!

Monday, August 30, 2010

A trip home...

Gran's House...Originally red asbestos shingling, original ironwork on front porch.
So I took a few days last week to make the drive up to North Alabama to visit my family.  Monday of course was the City Hall East sale (more on that coming!), so I headed up on Tuesday and stayed for a few days.  I had a great time looking around my grandmother's house, which was built in the 50's.  Gran's house is a super cute ranch, with beautiful original light oak floors and a den on the back of the house with walls and ceiling of knotty pine paneling.  There are tons of details in her house that are great and much of it is still original (she did get rid of the red shag carpeting some time ago that lived in the den!).  Here are some pictures I took of some of my favorite details.
Classic 50's door!

Original stove hood.
Another great mid-century detail on the hood.
View from kitchen to dining...original cabinets and "tile" paneling.
Hood detail, push button!
Original laundry room off the carport with great built-ins.
Built in heaters throughout.
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Knotty Pine and a wagon wheel chandelier in the den.
Great vintage Anderson aluminum screen door on laundry room.