A little transformation

When Carol at Country Roads asked me
What are you going to do with those?

I looked at my box of
old,
rusty,
door knobs
and realized I had no idea.

But it was too late to leave them behind,
I had already fallen in love.

I thought about them for a coupe of hours until
inspiration hit me and I'm happy with results.
What do you think?

Happy Monday!!


"Did you ever stop to think,
and forget to start again?"
~Winnie the Pooh~

Linking up to the "new party on the block"
Project Monday
at
Up in the attic

Time...

"Time is an equal opportunity employer.
Each human being has exactly the same number
of hours and minutes every day.

Rich people can't buy more hours.
Scientists can't invent new minutes.
And you can't save time to spend it on another day.

Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past,
you still have an entire tomorrow"

~Denis Waitely~

How are you spending yours today?

Time for Roses...

My weekly visit to the garage yield some cupboard doors that I can not recall acquiring...
No, I'm not trying to deny my compulsive junking...
I just can't remember!

But the fact that I don't know their past....

it does not mean

that I can't change their future...

Thank you Roze for the beautiful prints!

Door Sweet Home

The old door made it out of the truck and into the garage for a quick and fun makeover right on time for another White Wednesday.

Its white old paint was the perfect background for a bold and graphic statement...can you tell that we are really in love with big black lettering later?

We made our own stencil by simply using regular paper, the computer and the printer.
Once we decided the how and the where...

we painted...
and this is what we got:

Some distressing later...
(A coat of aqua paint peeked through... Bingo!!)

a couple of metal brackets, a piece of wood cut to size...

and voilá!

The perfect accent for a hallway or an entryway.
Taking almost no space at all, (only about 12" deep), our door provides enough room for a lamp,the keys, the purse. ...

It also reminds you that you are where you're supposed to be....HOME!

Also linked to:
Transformation Thursday
The DIY Showoff

Change of plans

A nice old door

with great original hardware

just waiting in the back of my truck...

I had great plans for my door this week,
but a bad, bad cold is keeping me from having fun.

I hate when that happens!!

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans"
~Thomas La Mance~

About old doors and windows....

We always knew we loved old doors and windows. We love them as salvaged art, as a way to add texture to a room... We loved them because of their chippy paint and their cool hardware... because they are usually very inexpensive and because they make a great statement in any room....

but we never knew we had so many!!!!

Take a look at just some of the old windows and doors Clara and I found in our own homes....

A pair of huge doors, rescued from a construction site, turned sideways welcome friends to Clara's entryway...

Old cupboard door with sweet green paint and original glass knob is now enjoying retirement on a shelf...



The opening on this window was perfect for a kitchen blackboard...

A window frame now holds Clara's Baby's Shoes collection...

When one of our Dealers brought this cutie from Tennessee, I knew I had to have it....

I also had to have this little led glass window...

and this mirrored door that has just been moved to my bathroom...

This poor thing was under the rain when we found it and drove around town with me for three days until was finally moved into my living room....

We wonder if this qualify as a collection, a fascination or just pure obsession!..