Holy Hot Pink, Batman!

Source: Posh Tots

Holy Hot Pink, Batman! This baby changer has a whole lot of style and is sporting one of my favorite colors in the world, BUT...they cannot be serious with this price $1,195.00!!!! Um, this thing better change and breastfeed my baby for that price. And it doesn't say it does that in it's description:

The Kendall Changer is pure modern elegance for the nursery. With small drawers for supplies and two bigger drawers for larger items there is plenty of storage for diapers, blankies, layettes, and toys. A removable changing tray securely holds a changing pad. The beautiful luster is from multi layered washed walnut and classic lacquer drawer fronts shown here in Hot Lips. Drawers have under mount, smooth glides and interiors are finished in orange. Rectangular polished nickel hardware adds a sophisticated finishing touch. Made in the USA out of sustainably harvested hardwoods and with hand-applied, water based, non-toxic lacquers. Please note that in hand crafted finishes beautiful natural variances will occur. Green Changing Mat not included.

Although this is (IMO) a ridiculous baby purchase, it has given me an idea for my Campaign dresser in my entry!

Little Things...

At work I was doodling on a Post-It of how I'd like my gallery wall above my sofa to look.  Don't laugh!

On my way home I stopped at a furniture consignment store and got a Campaign dresser!  It's a bit rough right now, but I'm going to snazz it up. 

And last, but not least I sewed some cafe curtains for my kitchen window last week.

Those are my little things for tonight.

Pillow formula

I love the way some people mix patterns with their throw pillows (I'm looking at you Jamie from isuwannee). I tragically came from a home where you match things by golly! So my mix-matching skills are slightly lacking.  So, as Stacy and Clinton from WNTW would do, I made myself a PILLOW FORMULA! I have come to the conclusion that the perfect pillow pattern formula is:

GRAPHIC + FLORAL + ETHNIC

Por ejemplo:

Source: All from isuwanne

I currently have made some African Wax Print fabric pillows, that's my ethnic, and I will be adding something graphic in either vertical stripes or chevron stripes. I am still undecided on a floral right now, but I'm thinking about a Suzani pillow, that's kind of floral-esque.  What do you think?

Fit for a Queen

As I told you last week, I've partnered with some wonderful guys to sell furniture that they buy at storage auctions and I've just listed a lovely Queen Anne sofa.  It would be fine left as is or personalized by reupholstering in some great modern fabric.

Here are the deets - Gorgeous Queen Anne Style sofa upholstered in a Jacquard blue fabric and lovely tufting. Generous length of 7'8" and a height of 2'7". Here's the Craig's List Ad.

A little history- Queen Anne furniture came about at a time when American colonists had more money to spend on furnishings for their homes, which is why so many pieces of furniture were made in this style at the time. This furniture that was crafted in America was made in various places, such as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. While the style was very close to the versions from England, there is a bit of difference that can allow you to easily distinguish between the English and American versions of this type of furniture.


One of the key designs that was seen in Queen Anne furniture happens to be what is known as the cabriole leg, which would end with a carved webfoot or what was known as a Dutch foot. This leg and foot style would be used on various pieces from this time period, including bed frames, chairs, day beds, tables, desks, lowboys, chests, and more.
Source: http://queenannefurniture.org/

Today Queen Anne furniture, espscially Queen Anne sofas can fit in decor styles from traditional to modern. Here are some awesome Queen Anne Sofa revamps (all from Design*Sponge, I love that site!):

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Here's the Queen Anne Sofa I have

Personally, if this bad boy were mine I'd go with this fabric and totally put a bird on it!

Source: Hawthorne Threads

If you live in the Washington, DC area or the Shenandoah Valley Area and would like to purchase, you can email me at kn.williams [at] gmail [dot] com.

This is not the sofa...

I am UBER EXCITED because I've been given a great opportunity. Before I tell you what it is, let me tell you how it came to be:

Last weekend I headed out to pick out an antique mirror I saw on Craig's List (blogged about here), first of all I was so glad it hadn't sold yet because I saw it a month ago, but with my travels for my job hadn't had the chance to offer to buy it.

So, I go to a beautiful house up on a small mountain (it's mountainous here, y'all) and after being turned around because mountain houses are not numbered numerically, I met the lovely people selling the mirror.

They asked me was there anything else I was looking for, I told them I was really interested in mid-century modern furniture...they had no idea what I meant, so I talked to them about it. To make a long story short these two friends bid on items in storage facilities and auctions for the fun of it, but they have no idea what's good and what's not.

So, they asked me if I'd like to partner with them by researching and listing their stuff for sale. WOULD I EVER! They also said if there was something that I could improve by painting or reupholstering or whatever they'd front those costs and then we could sell it. *do you hear that? I think it's angels singing!*

That is the great opportunity and I am UBER EXCITED!

Currently they've given me a Queen Anne style sofa to sell; I will be doing a post on it and posting it on CL, this weekend!

STAY TUNED!