before&after

Much of our furniture has been acquired by antiquing, garage saleing, thrifting, "burming" (this is what JD calls finding things on a curb and keeping them--must be a North Dakota thing)...

I love the thrill of finding something that isn't wanted and making it beautiful and admired.

Design*sponge has a segment where they take older, used, sometimes damaged furniture and fashion it into a gem.  My friend AP and I are going to submit one of our creations on d*s someday...but first we have to do some more shopping trash dump searching to find the perfect piece.

A recent d*s post:

it's amazing what a good clean, some polish, anthropologie knobs, and a perfectly pink wall can do.

images via design*sponge