bulking up for winter

My Grandfather was a really talented artist.  I'm lucky enough to have quite a few pieces of his artwork in our home.  He did these lovely ballet prints for the Lord & Taylor Christmas card many years ago, isn't that neat?  I have four of them in our dining room and I threw them in cheap black metal frames that I had spray painted white but they looked a little well, too little!

Today at Michaels I found some slightly more substantial frames for buy one get one free and they were $7.99!  So I popped them in the new frames.

Isn't that better?  I was originally thinking silver frames would be nice but these white ones couldn't be passed up.  Check back for more House Tour.  The dining room where these ballet prints live is next!

chandelier redo

When we were moving in I looked at the chandelier in the dining room and thought "Nope" so down it came and sat in the basement for about a year. 

here it is in all its brass and wood combo glory

We were slowly working on changing out the old ceiling fixtures in the bedrooms and I thought that I'd love a chandelier in the guest room but it wasn't something I wanted to spend much money on.  I had seen lots of chandelier redos all over the web so I figured I'd find an old cheapy and spray it.  Then I realized I had an old cheapy already so I ran in the basement and rescued it from the workroom shelf.  I removed the glass shades and sprayed it a gloss white.  I made a little cord cover with some white cotton I had.  I actually glue gunned it together over the cord once the chandelier was already hung.  Ridiculous but I didn't think to construct it before we hung it up and there was no way we were taking it back down again. The wiring in this house is a little wonky and changing the fixtures can be a little complicated.  So here she is...

After

Much better!  I originally thought I'd put fabric shades on it but I like it without them.  Check back for more house tour!