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...is OUR TRIPLE ROCKER!! Thank you little J & S for prompting your parents to upgrade your sleeping situation to a set of bunkbeds. First of all, I was a child at one time, too. (If you ask my handsome handy husband (Triple H) he will tell you I still act like a child from time to time. It's part of my charm, I tell him!) And as a child, I shared a set of bunkbeds with my little brother Michael. Yes, my dad frequently called me Stevie Joe until his boy was born. As the only male child with three older sisters, it was Michael's duty to torment us (me). I being the closest in age to him became his victim/best friend. I recall one morning waking up in my bottom bunk to find a fake plastic vampire bat hanging from his top bunk right in my face. Good times! Good times! So, bunkbeds and siblings are a right of passage. Have fun with them neighbor boys while WE (Triple H & I) have fun sitting on our front porch rocking the night away in our triple rocker made from your old discarded bed. We spotted the bed about a year ago, I'd guess, in the neighbor's trash. A quick call confirmed it was free for the taking. So, we grabbed it. It silently stood in our garage until this summer when it's number was called and work began on it's transformation. We used the headboard in it's entirety. The footboard, however, was cut and became the sides of the triple rocker. Not in half, mind you, because that would have made for too deep of a rocker. The newel posts on the footboard were removed and saved for another project down the road. We framed the rocker with wood we had salvaged from an old project. There's the framing in of the seat. Look at our Heavy Metal Industrial Entertainment Center peeking out behind it! (Buy me for your Man Cave! I'm one of a kind!) At this point we started discussing options for the armrests. That's when I remembered my little $3 table I had picked up when shopping for The Park Ridge Project. It was a short table at 17". Not really a practical height for a table if you ask me. Weird really. I suggested we use the table top for the armrests. Those table legs we saved for another project some day. Or a sword fight among kids would be fun, too! Always use your imagination people. After cutting the armrests, I sanded and stained them while handsome handy husband made the rockers... Putty was used to fill in the areas where the headboard originally attached to the side rails. The chair went up on the lift and the rockers were applied. Then of course we had to test it out and it rocked! (We still see you peeking out from behind there you awesome head bangin' former dumpster dresser! We love and adore you.) Now that the construction was pretty much completed, it was time for yours truly to do the finishing work - painting & staining. Fun, fun! While the bed was made from Maple, the table top turned armrests were Hickory. I couldn't paint over that beautiful woodgrain, and as I mentioned above they were stained. The rest was all painted black from our paint stash. Then distressed and stained with an aged oak gel stain from our stain stash. As is our way, whether it is a remodeling project or a furniture project, we ALWAYS sign our work. I hope I'm a ghost one day (in a 100 years would work) and can see the reaction of the future occupants of our home when they find all of the little notes hidden inside the walls of this old house. Then once they discover them, I'll jump out and yell "BOO!". I tend to leave longer notes if it's for the house's future owners or ourselves. I wouldn't normally leave such a long note on a furniture project to sell. This rocker is a keeper, thus the wordiness hidden under the seat. That was it. After all of that work our neighbor's former bed was turned into our Triple Rocker. Here she is in all her glory... Some close-ups... We love this rocker. We imagine rocking many a night away in it. Let's take one more look and then that's the last you'll hear from us on this until we make the next one. If YOU have a furniture flip you'd like to share with our readers, please feel free to email before & after pics with all of the details to me at [email protected] . If you have any questions on any of the flips we feature here, also don't hesitate to email us. If it's not one of our flips, we'll put you in touch with the ones who did flip it. Finally, if you haven't subscribed yet by email to the blog, do so today! We'd hate for you to miss out on all the cool furniture flips we share. Only a small fraction are ours, the rest all belong to YOU talented people. Thanks for coming along with us on this fun project. Furniture Flippin' Facebook friends were treated to updates along the way. We appreciated your support and encouragement throughout this Triple Rocker Project. Oh, handsome handy husband - YOU ROCK! Without your carpentry skills this would just be a bed taking up space in the garage. UPDATE - July 2014 - Okay let me just tell you this...the Triple Rocker is totally awesome. We love it madly. However, it was totally uncomfortable. Was being the operative word. No longer though! Thanks to our dear friend Elly of Elly's Custom Upholstery it is now all dressed up with a custom cushion and matching pillows. I selected the indoor/outdoor fabric from swatches that Elly carries and she created this beautiful cushion. Check it out... Isn't it gorgeous? I can't wait to sit out there on my porch and wave at all of the speeders and people who drive by while talking on their cell phones. I'll have a better view of them now, seeing how the cushion is 3" thick and Triple H also shortened our too-tall front porch railing by a few inches. I may even be able to get license plate numbers now! Hehehehe...have you made YOUR Triple Rocker yet? Send me a picture of it if you have! Stephanie
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We moved into our current home two years ago during a really rough time for our family. I was separated and headed for a divorce and I needed to get out from under the family home we had owned for six years. I was ready for the move, and grateful to find a comfortable and safe place for me and four kids to "land" for awhile, but I guess I felt for a long time that this home would be temporary. While I love decorating, I didn't know what was coming next and I just wasn't capable of investing myself in decorating a home I would just have to leave. I just didn't have it in me. Images:The Graphics Fairy In the past several months I'm feeling a bit of a shift. I still don't know what's going to happen next, or how long we'll be in this home, but as I have more emotional healing from the divorce, I'm finding I have more of a desire to "nest" in this home. I'm quite sure blogging and Pinterest have helped to revive my desire to decorate! Since moving in, the living room has been a mostly neglected space that I tend to avoid. In our home the entire main floor is one room, the living room-dining area-kitchen. It's a small, awkward space and tends to be taken over by kid stuff, school stuff, etc. I had made some half-hearted attempts to hang things on the walls, etc, but never really tried to pull it together. My room is more comfortable and tends to be where we all end up in the evening to watch movies and read, etc. So last week I decided that when all the Christmas stuff was out I was ready to invest some effort into making our living room a place where I might actually want to sit down and stay for awhile. I'm giving myself : Permission to Nest. This is how it looked getting ready for Christmas This is how it looked taking Christmas down : ) This is how it looked on Saturday-possibilities! Keeping in mind my decorating budget is ZERO, I had to "shop" my own house to pull the room together. I brought the electric fireplace and faux mantel backdrop down from the master bedroom, along with a few other pieces. Upstairs I used a black shelf as the faux mantel, but here I wanted it to be all white. I created this mantel shelf using an old drawer front and some shelf brackets I already had. Candles on the ottoman tray? Not likely in everyday life in this room, but I was fantasizing about being ALL ALONE in this room (ha!) with my tea....a book....some soft music, maybe? A girl can dream... The same side-of-the-road crib I used for the mantel backdrop also became this chalkboard several months back. Oh, awkward PIECE of brown SECTIONAL, how I loathe thee! Alas, we must try to make this relationship work for now! : ) I was inspired by Karianne at Thistlewood Farms to freshen up a twig wreath I had put together before Christmas. I sprayed it white (including the vintage sheet music leaves that weren't coming off). Added one of my snowy owls and a vintage hanger. I tucked some nature inspired postcards and photocopies into these rustic frames and tacked them onto a white painted rough board, creating one larger piece. My nearly 9-year-old Amelia is a prolific artist (and animal lover), and since she tends to spread out her supplies everywhere she goes, I thought I'd try to give her a little corner of her own here. I used an old headboard to create a little backboard for the table. I won't mind if she tapes or tacks things onto it, and I thought the vintage hangers were kind of a charming addition. This spot will certainly not contain all of her creative pursuits, but at least she'll have her own space to draw when we're together in this room. I made this hotel sign several years ago from an old kitchen cabinet door. Checkers and cards are more realistic than candles : ) This white crate has been one of the most versatile things I own. It has held firewood and toys, been a wall shelf, a book shelf and right now it's perfect for holding extra pillows and cozy winter blankets. This hobnail glass mug from Target was a Christmas gift from my daughter. I love it!! Totally charming antique Stickley settee on loan from my generous friends in China! I think I'm ready to spend some time in this room now. Movie, popcorn, blankets, yep. Nesting success! If I end up having to leave this place soon and unexpectedly, I'm going to need some hand holding, friends, ok? Come join me over at: Farmhouse Porch-Cowgirl Up! The Dedicated House-Make It Pretty Monday Debbiedoo's Newbie with a Twist Party Thistlewood Farms Homemaker on a Dime Knick of Time Tuesday Vintage On A Dime-Welcome Home Wednesday House on the Way-Twirl & Take a Bow Savvy Southern Style-Wow Us Wednesdays twelveOeight-Pretty Things Link Party! 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Original painting- ONLY ONE AVAILABLE Chillicothe, Ohio downtown historic center. Watercolor painting Chillicothe OH downtown skyline art architecture business district (original) 8x20" watercolor painting on 140lb Fabriano Artistico professional watercolor paper. Hand signed by artist (not pictured). Unframed. Original painting is shipped in cardboard mailing tube, sealed in watertight plastic sleeve. USPS Priority Mail (1-3 days) with tracking and insurance (domestic US). Fine art prints available: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1390741384/chillicothe-ohio-downtown-historic This painting is based on the artist’s original travel photograph (or imagination). This is a real watercolor painting (no AI art). Fine art prints are scans/photographs of the original painting. Prints are made in the USA- no third party overseas dropshipping. Every print/painting is physically inspected & shipped by the artist. Your purchase helps a real-life living artist- a small business of one person supporting a family. Painted by artist Ryan Fox. Ryan Fox is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society as well as numerous state and regional societies. Ryan has won awards in The American Watercolor Society (AWS), Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, Missouri Watercolor Society, Georgia Watercolor Society (GWS), and Watercolor Society of North Carolina juried shows. His work has been featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine, Art of Watercolour, and Splash 15, 16, 19 & 20 hardcover books published by F+W Media. His instructional DVDs are marketed by Creative Catalyst Productions. Our full range of prints and paintings: https://rfoxwatercolors.etsy.com Don’t miss out- buy it now
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My love for DIY birdhouses began with my father (a master gardener) telling me about our local bluebirds' plight. Their numbers were rapidly on the decline. He informed me about their need for a safe habitat for nesting. I decided to share that bluebird information during my hosting garden club meeting. My father told me
From SAVEUR Issue #137 by NAMECatherine Stortz Ripley Ten years ago, while writing a history of Livingston County, Missouri, I stumbled upon an article in the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, where I work as the news editor, announcing that sliced bread would go on the market the next day, July 7, 1928. "Chillicothe Baking Co. the first bakers in the world to sell this product to the public," the headline stated.Keep reading »
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