Painted Furniture - and unexpected Treasures

I really like all that painted furniture I have been seeing on your blogs, and I finally did some painting myself....er....hubby did. He knows he paints better than I do (he's a perfectionist and I am "just get 'er done). Between the chair and the hutch sits my grandmother's little telephone table and stool. I just love it because I can picture it in her house and her sitting and talking on her phone! However, I sort of considered it "off limits" to paint - I mean, it was hers! However, seeing some of my daughter's recent beautiful paint experiences (if you stand still at her house for more than 5 minutes, you get spray painted!) convinced me that my Grammy would say, "Just do it, Honey!".


Also, we have this little chest that serves as a coffee table in our keeping room. Again, brown blah!

So hubby painted the telephone table and stool. He said, "Why don't you put the telephone book in there?" Well, first, we live in a big city and we have several phone books, and second, who wants to see a phone book in a telephone table - I mean really!!! So I added some old red books.

I'm looking at my small cordless phone and remember my Grammy's black phone with the cord and the party line that she had for many years....you know....when it rings differently for each person's house. I never could figure out her ring???!!!

Don't her cute, curvaceous legs show up better?!

Hubby thought it might be good to leave the top of the chest stained and paint the rest. I think that was a fabulous idea!

Don't you love garage saling when you find something that you didn't realize you needed? And especially when it is a decorator's garage sale (whose husband told her, "Get some of that stuff out of the basement!")

I really needed this step up to our poster bed. The mattresses these days are soooo high.

I had been using this little Target gem on the other side of the bed so that no one could see her but me.

I was thrilled to get this $20 solid mahogany step up....looks soooo much better.

And a $3 Liz purse....

And a $4 sassy leopard pillow.

I'm joining these wonderful ladies this week:

Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday

Rhoda at Southern Hospitality for Today's Thrifty Treasures

Linda at Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

Hope you have a wonderful week. Blessings to you. Linda