She did it last year too, and I got so many great ideas!
Last year we were living in an apartment waiting to move into our house.
I didnt post much last year, but I am super excited she is doing it again!!!!
Ok so I missed out last week, so this week I am showing my kitchen and Dining room!
This is the fireplace in our dining room, its functional, but we havent had the chimney sweeped yet, so until we are able to have roaring fires, i think this party lite piece works just great for ambiance.
This is my present center piece, fake apples, and a mulled cider gold canyon candle! yum! Nothing says fall like apples and apple cinnomon scented candles!!
This is looking into the dining room from the front entrance.
Looking in from the kitchen
My dining room table actually came from the Yellowknife, NWT city dump!!
I kid you not!
My mom and dad lived up there for 3 years ( My dad is RCMP)
anyway the city dump is not your ordinary dump.....
because YK is so isolated, it is hard for people that are moving out of there to move their belongings.
Unless they are Goverment, ( and it is an all expense paid move) it is very very expensive.
So people just throw out their stuff ( but chances are if they moved there with nothing, they either acquired stuff at yard sales, from other people moving that were selling everyting, or the dump)
Anyway, my dad (who is the king of other people junk is someone elses treasure...lol) would go to the dump on a weekly basis ( sunday mornings- he called it shopping cart sundays...lol because the people that had yardsales on saturday would take all the stuff they didnt sell to the dump!)
Ok I know it sounds like my dad is some kind of dumpster diving street person....lol but No! everyone goes to the dump on sundays!!! lol!
anyway, this one sunday my dad spotted a dining room table all set up just sitting there!
He very quickly loaded in the truck, as many others were eyeing it...lol and took it home to my mom!
It was upholstered with very ugly and stained green fabric, but my dad figured my mom could recover it! The table and wood in the chairs was in mint condition!!
My mom was so amazed at my fathers find!!!
In further investigation my mom found that there was another fabric under the ugly green stuff....so she ripped all the green fabric off and under neath was a fabric that was in mint condition! ( and it is the fabric that is on it today!!)
Anyway my dad was transfered to PEI (home for us) and when they got back here, they built a house and bought all new furniture.
My mom gave me the dump table, and I love it!!!!
She also gave me new upholstry fabric to someday cover it, but i kinda like it the way it is for now!
Oh and also! a very funny twist to the story!
After my mom had cleaned the table and it was ready for use ( in YK) my moms good friend Toots came over to see the amazing dump find!
She took one look at it and said.....that was my table......15 years ago!!!!
Toots had been married to a man, and they divorced and sold the house with all its contents, and this table was one of its contents!
She had been the one that had the underneath fabric custom done after purchasing the table.
Isnt that an amazing story!!! lol
My mom also gave me the china cabinent, and all her china!
My kitchen!
Our house is a 1950's rancher, and the kitchen is almost original.
We painted the cupboards( which were almost the same yellow as the walls)
and the counter top ( which was originally orange!)
We are planning on gutting the entire kitchen in the next few years
This hallway leads to our laundry room, my daughter Raven's room and the kids bathroom
Thanks for stopping by!
