My Bedroom...

After almost a year and a half of living here my bedroom is finally properly furnished.It has been years,yes,YEARS since I've had bedroom set.Finding a vintage bedroom set in your price range can be tricky sometimes,especially if your price range is more on the "can I get that for free?" side.My husband pleaded a few times to just get over my need for vintage dressers and let him get something at Wal-mart till I found something but first off gross (no offense if that's your thing but its definitely not mine) and secondly I know my husband well enough to know that if I said yes he'd say "we already have dressers" when the time came that I found them.Sometimes its better to just do without till you get it just right.

Originally I had my heart set on an art deco waterfall bedroom set but nothing was in my price range and the pieces that were on Craigslist ended up being 3 hours away making it not quite a deal once you factor in gas and having to rent a small moving van.Eventually it just came down to "something vintage will do!" and when you open your net wider fate will work with you a little more.I spotted a bedroom set in a consignment shop months ago and told myself not to get too excited about them but if they were still there after I saved the $200 needed I'd  snag them.Thankfully there were.I didn't inspect them for labels but once they were delivered and I opened a drawer I was pleasantly surprised to learn they were Kent-Coffey pieces!



Since I finally had dressers in place I could put things on the wall!


These paintings are from 1941 and I got them in a flea market in Indiana.I got that aluminum dish with Bakelite handle also in Indiana.The clock is a reproduction of Westclox Big Bean Moon Beam.


I can't even begin to express my happiness at being able to display my vintage jewelry again.Having it on the floor definitely isn't the same.That lamp is a nice $10 score at the thrift store.


Close up of my jewelry,I love this vintage Lucite display I got off ebay over a decade ago now.Always wanted to find another but haven't had any luck.




Some of my Bakelite bangles.



Here is the side table.Unfortunately it doesn't work as a side table in our room since its a bit small for a "master bedroom" but works out well in this little nook.I found out from the neighbor that our 1937 home use to originally be a 2 bedroom with a garage that is now a 4 bedroom with NO garage.There are 3 rooms upstairs and they took the master bedroom and split it which totally makes sense!What was once the garage is now the 4th bedroom my husband uses as an office and the other half is now my office.The fact that we have a king bed doesn't help with the bit of cramped-ness but the thought of downgrading to a queen is something my husband and I both agree is a terrible idea.And I will never complain about it being small as the neighbor told me the original owners had 6 kids in this place!I can't even imagine.


These curtains inspired the color palette in my room,they're called "Happily Married" which I thought was good juju for the bedroom.If you look on ebay you can usually find a lovely little variety of Saison happily married fabrics.I'm not sure how many prints they had but that company definitely had some beautiful ones.



The moon I've had for years and I thought it'd go great with art deco waterfall furniture but I still like it even if I don't have the dark wood.I'm a little weird about mixing woods,I'm definitely too matchy matchy at times but I'm learning to loosen up a bit in this department.Moon and figurine were Indiana flea market finds...man,I found some good things when I lived in Indy.



And where dirty clothes go till they get washed,the hamper!There are little tweaks here and there I'm sure will be made as time goes by.Eventually hardwood floors will be put back upstairs too but for now I'm happy that all the rooms upstairs are now properly furnished!

China Pattern Addict...

I try and limit the things I collect,I really do.Vintage china patterns are a hard one for me to resist.Today while I was out thrifting I feel like the vintage gods were telling me "sure,2 more patterns is TOTALLY okay to add to your already all over the place pattern list!" So I did.I went ahead and picked up the Canonsburg Temporama gravy boat




and the 2 Taylor Smith & Taylor Cathay dinner plates.




The blues blend in well with my already existing Vernonware Heavenly Days,Canonsburg Florence, and Franciscan Oasis displayed lovingly in my Heywood Wakefield china cabinet.You'll be able to see that they mesh together well when I get the dining room finished (yeah,still waiting to get base board trim!So close yet so far!)

To show I do have SOME restraint though,look at all these darling patterns on these teacups I passed on today!And they were only 25 cents which I think shows extra praise!



In my head I'm justifying going back and using them to make candles in...that way I won't feel the need to collect ALL the pattern.Gods,I need help I know.Vintage china patterns are like Pokemon for me,there is this weird need to collect them all!

Wayland's Western Room...

My sons room is done so that makes the grand total of rooms in the house done up to 2.My kids are my priority so it makes sense that their rooms were tackled  first.Wayland's room was literally a piece by piece job.When we first moved in his room was an ugly ashy blue,I still need to touch up a few spots where its peaked through the sandy color I've thrown over it but basically its done.Done enough to show off anyway.

The dresser I found at one of the thrift stores here a few months ago.The lamps I'd picked up at the antique mall here back in 2006 when I'd lived up here very briefly.I'd gotten them for a whopping $10.00!They've traveled with me all over the statea and its funny that 6 years later they're back in the town I originally purchased them in.


This Lone Ranger has seen better days but I couldn't pass him up when I spotted him at a yard sale when I was out in California last year caretaking for a family member.


Like a lot of the homes in my area you have the slanted ceiling which is kind of a pain to work with,especially when they rooms aren't big to begin with (and you insist that your children have FULL beds and not twins cause twin bedding is garbage in my opinion) but you work with what you got.The kids have their play room down stairs and each have enough space to play in their bedrooms when they're requiring their own quiet time.


Here is a close up shot of the curtains.I wasn't able to afford vintage cowboy barkcloth curtains but I did get these light cotton vintage ones for a steal on ebay.


I'm sure of you collect old magazines.Life magazine are great for art,the ads are fantastic and fit well in an 11x8 frame.I had an issue that was pretty brittle to the touch but had an ad for the movie Annie Get Your Gun (1950) that I cut out to use in his room.



This rodeo souvenir from 1941 is in perfect condition,I picked it up in an Indy flea market for $3.00!


The back pillows my mom made,they're a tooled leather look with faux cow print on the other side.The little owl pillows were a gift from my friend Kara when I found out I was pregnant with Wayland.



I keep some of his books in this vintage magazine rack.He doesn't get too many books in his room due to him have a secret stash of pens somewhere that he likes to doodle in so too many books left in the privacy of his room meet an untimely death.Boys,they're destructive.


His light switch cover I purchased from Hobby Horse Designs on etsy.


Vintage toy box


Speaking of little boys being destructive...This rocker I got in mint condition.One day Wayland is happily rocking in it and then leans over the arm and bites it!!Tore the vinyl so now its taped.FYI to my fellow vintage lovers,if you're doing vintage with your kids (especially boys) don't spend too much on any one piece cause you'll be extra sad when it gets a boo boo.

The chair was only $25.00 so I wasn't completely outraged but it still hurt.The vintage Herman Munster doll I picked up when I was still in Oceanside,CA at the consignment warehouse on coast highway.I love that place,it always has new things coming in so to any San Diego readers stop by if you're ever in the area cause it always has good things!



The shadowbox was another Indy flea market steal,the horse was my mothers as a child,and yes for fellow western nerds that is a signed photo of Pat Conway from Tombstone Territory.


Kitschy $1.00 thrift store art is sometimes the best art.


and last but not least is his Vogue hamper.I had this long before he was born because hi my name is Desiree and I'm a vintage hamper hoarder but yeah to finally having a use for it!

Indecisive Bathroom Decor Decisions...

Sometimes I'm not very good at deciding what I want to do,this is especially true in my home decor.If I can't find what I want I'll just go without until I find something just right.Other times I think I know what I want and half way into the project I change my mind.This is what happened with my bathroom.Sadly AFTER I painted it so I get to paint it again.It has high ceilings.I don't look forward to that again.Before I left California I bought this barkcloth curtain panel at an estate sale.



I finally got around to listing it and then the next day pulled the listing because I decided it would make for an awesome shower curtain!The problem is I only have one bathroom in my new house which meant my atomic shower curtain and my Miller Studio fishes weren't going to work.





I put the shower curtain on Ebay and the fish are on Etsy

Now do you guys think I should paint my bathroom chartreuse or pink?And as far as wall hangings I'm thinking swans or poodles,which do you think is more fitting with the curtain?


Swans from Flabby Rabbit on etsy.


Poodles from SkipperJack on etsy.


It'll be a bit down the road but eventually I'm going to get this sink (I think,there are so many choices its hard for a gal to decide) I saw from vintagetub.com


I want to redo the floor which means that I have to have the money for the new tub,toilet and sink too since we'd want to do the floors first before we put those things in.Why are my projects always so expensive?I want hubs to lay hexagon floor tiles like this photo courtesy of Katyelliott.com