Bartlett & Craft

The living room as it currently stands is still very much in flux.  Almost all the furniture in there now is furniture we brought with us and is stuff that was given to us, so it is old.  BUT, I wanted to change a couple things about the space in the interim including the wall color.  I chose Quiet Mint by Sherwin Williams but chose to paint just the first 2/4-3/4 of the wall.  I thought this might make the space feel cozier, stunt the height of the 10 foot ceilings. I'm not sure if that is what it actually did, but I like it for now. view from the living room looking into the dining room I thrifted these lamps (left) as well as the matching end tables that double as storage The curtains were left over fabric from a different project. I'm eventually going to replace them with a pull down shade.  I'm trying to avoid anything that takes away from the gorgeous window and trim.  I added a knick knack shelf to store stray books and photo album...

 This house has a really awesome library/office that used to be the formal dining room. The dining room was cut off from the kitchen when they converted the butlers pantry into a storage closet (and added stairs down to the basement - you used to only be able to enter through the bilco doors outside).  This room was lined almost floor to ceiling with built in shelving.  We quickly filled them with books and all my thrifting purchases for selling (I sell vintage baby/kid clothes and other knick knacks I find when I'm out thrifting.  Check out my Ebay and Instagram pages - busy_bab if you want to see what is currently for sale). I knew I wanted to go darker in this room to offset all the light/bright in the living room (you access the office from the living room).  I wanted something really dark, a dark hue of blue/green.  Eventually I landed on this color, Balmy Night by Clark + Kensington.  It's quite dark, but, because I left the shelving all wh...

Before moving to Wisconsin, I had visited a little shop attached to a lumber yard in Michigan that was selling slabs of wood of various sizes.  In our old house we never had a large dining room table, we had all our meals around a smaller kitchen table, which worked well unless we had anyone over.  Seating became an issue even if one other person came over for a formal meal. I knew once we moved to Wisconsin I wanted to invest in a good table and I LOVED the idea of making one myself, or at least finishing it.  So I found a company, Urban Wood Lab operated by Hoppe Tree Service that sold large slabs of urban trees cut down locally.  What a wonderful way to have a piece of Wisconsin history, an actual tree that grew up here! I selected two slabs of ash and had then assemble the table top.  I would finish the table top surface and attach the legs myself. This kicked off the dining room renovation (scroll down to see the whole process and the before) T...