Floors can have a great impact on the overall design of a room. For a relatively inexpensive flooring update, consider painting rather than purchasing new floors. This treatment works especially well for hardwood floors. Using pale colors that are typical to vintage chic decor softens the look of wood and often creates a comfortable, relaxing mood. As you’ll see in the following photos, painting the floor can work well in any room.
When patterns are painted onto the floor they create interest and can be used to direct attention to where you want. The use of high gloss versus low gloss paint also gives a different feel to a room.
Before painting your own floors you may want to visit the guide on This Old House.
I’ve never painted my own floors, but I used to watch Debbie Travis paint them on her television shows and she looked like she was having so much fun! She painted EVERYTHING! You can check out her book Debbie Travis’ Painted House: More than 35 Quick and Easy Finishes for Walls, Floors, and Furniture
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FYI In case you haven’t heard: The team over at Flea Market Style magazine have updated their blog and are celebrating by giving away free autographed copies of their 2010 edition. Click on the image below to go over there and enter!
AND they’ve announced another edition of Flea Market Style for 2011!
When I was six, our family moved into an old two story house that had a clawfoot bathtub. I was fascinated as to why anyone would want to give the tub feet and make it look like an animal. I could barely see over the sides when I was sitting in it. Eventually it was replaced because our family was growing and we needed to add a shower, but I’ll always remember that tub. Now that I’m an adult I wish that I could experience soaking in that tub and relaxing with the scent of soothing essential oils. Since I can’t have it, here’s my photo homage to clawfoot bathtubs!
image sources: 1. Country Living 2. Country Living 3. Bottom of the Ironing Basket 4. Apartment Therapy via Houzz
Summertime. That fun in the sun time. Days spent by the pool, or if you’re lucky, the ocean. I especially love the color of water -with it’s depth of translucence, and the way light reflects and dances on the surface. The next closest thing that captures those qualities is aqua colored glass. Remember your mother or grandmother canning vegetables with the aqua colored Mason Jars
If you’re not into canning, the jars can have other functional and decorative uses. Summer dinner parties and intimate outdoor weddings are perfect occasions for bringing out the vintage jars and adding a touch of class in an inexpensive way.
image sources 1. Heartbeats and Drumsticks 2. Bridal Buds 3. Kitchenisms 4. High Street Market 5. Country Living 6. Elizabeth Anne Designs