After 15 years of living in the house we live in, I finally decided to update my basement. It had hand-stenciled walls, handprints of mine and my two boys in different colored paints from when we moved in and they were small. It had no style and I wanted cork flooring, freshly painted walls and all new furniture. So, of all those things after pricing them out, I ended up with professionally cleaned existing rug, professionally painted walls ( I am tired of painting walls and decided to indulge myself!) and re-purposed or "up-cycled" furniture. At much less of a cost and I am quite happy with it. Down the road I would like to add a white slipcovered couch from
Ikea but that will have to wait.
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| oil based primed and latex painted old laminate bookcase. dark gray! |
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| annie sloan chalk painted in "paris grey"-looks like new! |
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| Drum table |
The lamp below my son got at a yard sale. it was brass and rusted with an ill-fitting lamps shade! I painted it in Annie Sloan chalk paint in "Graphite" and found a new shade at Target on clearance for $9.00 as mentioned in previous blog!
The chairs are slipcovered (professionally done at a good price years ago) and I bought the chair and a halfs originally for $300 each at
Building 19. It was a good buy. Bought them probably 20 years ago and they are going strong! Comfortable for two people sitting together!
