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Pretties

04/22/2012 by LoveInGrace Leave a Comment

Oh my!!! I love pretty vignettes throughout the home.

Teacup candles add such loveliness. These are very feminine and elegant.

This is a fabulous way to use a vintage food scale.

Beautiful!!!

This wreath is made from pages of a book.

Bunch of roses.

I have floral arrangements like this throughout my home.

I love milk glass displayed grouped together

A great way to use a ladder.

Love the framed fabric on the wall.

Open Kitchen Shelving

04/22/2012 by LoveInGrace Leave a Comment

I am a big fan of open kitchen shelves. To me it brings a warm, cozy feel to a kitchen. It can also be very inviting and make you and everyone else love being in the kitchen.

I love the blueware on the first two shelves and then the lighter colored items up on top of this open kitchen shelf. It is not only pretty, but also adds focal point interest.

The metal shelves against the backdrop of white prevents the shelves from looking cold. This is beautiful.

Nice open space.

Lovely

In my own kitchen I have rice, quinoa, beans, sugar, flour and other dry goods in jars on open shelving on both sides of my stove.

Very cute and colorful

Oh my! This kitchen is so elegant.

I want to quickly add that open shelving is also a heck of a lot CHEAPER than custom-made cabinets.

I hope that I have inspired you to consider open shelving for your kitchen renovation.

Pretty In Pink

04/21/2012 by LoveInGrace Leave a Comment

I absolutely LOVE the color pink. It is my all time favorite color and major reason I love the picture of this room. I also am a girlie girl so I love also that this room is so sweet and feminine looking. My arts and crafts room in my home is painted pink and I love it.

Can you guess why I love this picture a little girl’s room?

This is so pretty. There is not anything prettier in the summer time like pink petunias hanging in front of one’s home in abundance.

I wish that I could paint the outside of my house this color but the city would not go for it on my historic house. I think this is so lovely!

This looks like a fun room to be in.

I must look for one of these Hello Kitty coffee makers.

LOVE this pink couch!

This pink ottoman/table or whatever it is is so ME.

Pink bathroom wallpaper. Nice!

This vintage look pink refrigerator has Xenia written all over it.

A Peek into my Brownstone

12/14/2011 by LoveInGrace Leave a Comment

This is the tin ceiling in my front parlor room. The ceilings in all the rooms of my home are very high. The tin here was filthy. I had it painted silver and it came out beautifully. The tin is also original to the house but now looks brand new.

My front parlor room fireplace mantel.

I am a bargain shopper and almost never buy furniture new. I guess you can say that I am cheap. This triple mirrored antique dresser was only $95.00 at the local Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I like to drive up into alleyways looking for goodies that people throw out. The only home decor items that I always purchase new are mattresses, electronic items and kitchen appliances. My windows are all 8 feet tall, so I have to order window panels from JC Penney. It is the only store that I can find them at the length that I need. I always wait for a sale though. These are interlined curtains of very good quality.

The tin in this room on the second floor is not in as good a shape as the tin in my front parlor room. I had it painted this color but it didn’t turn out the way I expected. It was supposed to look like a very shiny copper penny. I decided to leave it like this for the time being because I don’t feel like paying to have it done over. The chandelier used to hang in a hotel. I purchased it from a light fixture store in Saugerties, NY.

This is my library room and the sofa I bought at Habitat for Humanity ReStore for $65.00. The picture over the sofa I got free from my neighbor Annie. Annie is trying to de-clutter her own beautiful home and I am only too happy to accept anything I can use that she is giving away.

I bought these two bookcases from a used furniture store in Schenectady for $15.00 each. They have a Moroccan look to them. I had them painted and hung in my kitchen as cabinets. It sure beats paying thousands of dollars for custom-made cabinets. I love the way my kitchen turned out. It inspires me to cook and spend time in there.

This is my front staircase. It is still a work in progress along with my foyer. Photos were taken by Neil Grabowsky.

Here are some more random photos of my second floor in progress.

This light fixture is in my library room. Photo is by Neil Grabowsky.

Here is a glimpse of the only set of pocket doors left in my home. It is on the first floor between my second parlor room and my dining room. Originally there were four sets of pocket doors in my house. Unfortunately, three sets of them were cut up and discarded by previous slumlord owners