Estate Sale Makeovers

Or should I say "stencil overs"!!!

This is three of the many items I got at a great estate sale in Coquille.  Got my Maison de Stencils (see this post for link) out and my other supplies and in no time had done up the ironing board, drawer and screen (my favorite).

I placed a thick book under the screen, as it did not lay flush with the floor. Placed my stencil, pounced a combo of light yellow and medium yellow and left slightly empty space onto the stencil, removed stencil and immediately cleaned along with the brushes.

I have three more of this style screen some worse for wear and one that is narrower and has no dividers and the screen is in great condition .  Others I stencil will have letters missing to correspond with the missing screen...should be interesting doing those.
 

Next up  was the ironing board...those old wooden ones are really heavy!!!

I sort of measured and I sort of just eyeballed it. I tried to center with the boards (it would have dissected the fluer de lis) but it seemed to take away from the stencil, so I offset it just a bit.  I used very black, and tomato red. I first ponced on the black leaving areas undone, then went over with the red.  I should have allowed more dry time for the black, when I put the red on it tended to muddy a bit and I had to recover with the black.  Yes, the stencil cleaned up very nicely!!!

You can see some of the red in these two pictures.

But all in all I like very much how it turned out...what do you think?

Just acquired the white flower cart, it's going to be my new area for displaying linens. It's quite tall and has a green and white striped awning for the top

  
And we all should have a drawer like this one!!!

The drawer was more of a challenge as I did not want to trim the stencil to fit inside of it.  I tried to keep an even pressure but the "e and g" in everything were not as crisp as I would have liked. I tried to clean them up a bit, but then decided to leave well enough alone.  These were fun and exciting projects to do.  And the best part is, I have three new pieces that you will not find anywhere else for my shop.


Thank you for stopping by~~~Happy Hunting and Gathering!!!

Estate Sale Loot

I've been to four Estate Sales lately.  Mostly they were just A LOT of  NOTHING.  Three of them were hoarders and it wasn't pretty!!! I did luck out and found a couple of furniture pieces. It's been really difficult to find furniture items in the area.

This chair was one of the finds.  I really like the legs and arms are always a nice feature.  The piece of upholstery fabric came from a great estate sale in Coquille.That's what I'll be using to recover the seat.  I'm painting the chair light blue/grey color.

I also got a bunch of wooden coat hangers...this one is from a cleaners here in Coos Bay, it closed in the late 60's.  Marshfield was the name of our town until the mid 30's. I collect old wood advertising hangers.

 

Found this frame at another estate sale, also got a couple of books and a few ornaments for a Christmas project.  My daughter picked up a four post faux wood grain metal bed...it's really awesome no pic it's already at her house.

This is just a hodge podge of all four sales~~~I finally got a decent enough day to pull the stuff out of the garage a take some pictures.

I got 5 old wooden screens. I'm going to do a stencil project with them.

A couple of galvanized buckets, some old insulators, and several boxes of glass jars (didn't take them all out). that brown leather and silver studded piece is an old dog collar.

Got this old wooden ironing board and the drawer in front to do stencil projects on also.
















A Snoboy burlap sack...I'll be listing it on Etsy.

More jars.

A roll of galvanized tin and an old weathered board.

A rusty chicken feeder and a galvanized mop bucket that someone has painted yellow, it has a cool old handle that still show some of it's red paint.

There were some smalls that I've already taken to the shop...and most have already sold.

And lastly here is a round wooden card table with a 1923 Hoboken, New Jersey patent date.I picked this piece up in  Myrtle Point, at Tickled Pink, a small antiques shop. The gal there does her furniture up in mostly white with pink roses, all but a few pieces were tagged "sold". She does a fantastic job. This little table was a piece one of her vendors had.

 
Usually I see square folding table so I'm really liking this round one with the very cool turned legs!!!  This is going in the shop.  I'll be recovering four metal chairs to display with it in my window. Pics and a Post to follow.

Well, that's it for now, until next time...Happy Hunting and Gathering.