HOME DECOR -NEW (Used) COUCH

craig works with a guy who was consolidating his home with his new wifes family and they had double of everything, it seemed.

the offfer came up for us to go and get a couch, (or both, actually) if we wanted them.

of course, the 1st priority was to make sure wed have room for this new (used) couch.
so we spent all day on a saturday rearranging the furniture in both the garage and the living room to get the one couch out, we had gotten for free at Daniels Boy Scout Garage sale a couple of years earlier, to get this new couch in.

so, all day was spent all day saturay making room for the new couch, and then sunday we went and got it.

i didnt take a pic when it was at the original house, i forgot to, but i did take a pic of it before it went in the garage.

yeah...nice couch. :)

and here it is in its new spot in the house.

wall looks kinda empty now, i need to put some family pics, or some nice phrase up there. :)

MICHELLE

HOME DECOR - MY GRANDMOTHERS NICK NACK SHELF

while craig and myself were rearranging the garage, to be able to pull in the new couch we were expecting to get, i happened to locate a prized possession of mine that used to belong to my grandmother.

i love the things i got to keep that were hers. and try very hard to keep them up, and make good use of them.

and this was a simple nick nack shlef i can remember being a part of my life since i was 5.

im sure it was in my life before that, but i dont have any memory of it until we moved to Virginia Beach Nerginia, and i can remember it was hanging on the landing of the stairs wall. i saw it every day. it had various porceline animal statues on it.

when my grandmother was thinking she was getting up in age, she asked all of her children and grands to place names on items they wanted. i wanted that. so i put my name on it.
i dont regret doing it. i cherish every item i got too keep.

so, it was a thrill to redisover this item. and see it was in very good condition.

immediately, i thought of what to use it for, how to use it, where to put it.
and i had one idea.
on the wall where the front door is.

i had just gotten some small nativities i could actually show case on this shelf.

so i had craig fashion it up for me.

then i had the joy of picking out items to place on it for decor.

so, it sits now, on the wall as you enter..with various nativities (mostly) on it.
i really like it, gives the wall a warm feeling.

MICHELLE

INNOVATION - DISH DRAINING CLOSET : SPACE SAVER EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE (I Have ShelvesThat Do The Same Thing)

Dish Draining Closet: Space Saver Every Home Should Have

 Innovation often spreads like wildfire – it is a wonder, really, that this 50-year-old design idea has not fully dowsed the flames of frustration in kitchens around the world. Instead of dedicating surface or sink area to drying dishes, it makes shelves serve a secondary purpose and lets you skip a step entirely.

 

 

Dish Draining Closet: Space Saver Every Home Should Have

Innovation often spreads like wildfire – it is a wonder, really, that this 50-year-old design idea has not fully dowsed the flames of frustration in kitchens around the world. Instead of dedicating surface or sink area to drying dishes, it makes shelves serve a secondary purpose and lets you skip a step entirely.

Still found mainly in Northern Europe, the idea is simple: dishes are placed into a bottomless cupboard where each shelf drains down to the next level, and ultimately to waiting sinks and drains below. The effect? a marked decrease in the 30 thousand of hours spent by Finnish housewives doing dishes daily.

 Plastic-coated steel wire, of the kind usually found in baskets sitting inside or alongside sinks, frames each shelving layer rather than an impermeable surface, though other variants exist as well (both covered and uncovered).

 We are all familiar with drying mats, collapsible wood, plastic or metal dish racks and other solutions, but even hanging dish drainers exist on the shelves of stores like IKEA, but few let one bypass the interstitial step of drying then putting away dishes.

 Unlike many non-appliance amenities, this (loosely translated) ‘dish drying closet’ design and many subsequent variations can be traced back to a single inventor: Maiju Gebhard, who created it as part of the Finnish Association for Work Efficiency in the mid-1940s. Since then, though, it remains an elusive fixture in many modern kitchens outside its home continent.

INNOVATION - OLD SUITCASES MADE INTO DRESSERS (I Like This Idea!)

Vintage travel cases are hard to pass up at an estate or garage sale – a peak inside is just too temping, to see what history may yet linger within.

Still, they aren’t much use by themselves if they are worn and tattered, unless you are James Russel and Hannah Plumb of James Plumb Design, whose work covers everything from found object furniture to retro installation art.

Ragged suitcases are given a second chance at life inside metal towers, each made around a particular range of sizes to be both simple to construct but uniquely accommodating as well.

As in their other work, James Plumb shows off their interest in “overlooked and discarded, taking time-worn antiques and cast-offs to produce one-off assemblages, luminaries and interiors.”