Monday, April 12, 2010

Lounge Room Make Over/Retro Style.................

You would have read from my last post that I had a special trip to make saturday morning. Mr S and myself took the van to a Monster Garage Sale......We bought quite a few items but I have been looking for a couch/fold out bed similar to one I owned in my early twenties... I found this couch at the Garage Sale for $10.00.................................................



Close up picture of the white vinyl pattern...................................




MAKE OVER TIME.............


My sister Curlypops has been advising me for quite a while to change our front room. When we first bought this house this room was our lounge room but now we use the extension at the back of the house as the loungeroom......


We set up the front room as a sitting room with an extra tv......
But guess what? We never use this room....


Cool coloured blue walls, with a fireplace and mantle that I love. Also love the old mirror that came with the house.......




So today I decided my new kittehs(retro cats) needed a new home...........
I bought this pair at The MAryborough Railway Station Antique Fair for $15 a few months ago!
I love the orange colour as it particularly suits my house.......




$10 Sofa/couch in the corner for any visitors, just need an orange throw rug/quilt to pop over the couch to break up the colour of the couch to the wall....




Moved our dining setting (Mr Esssess great grandfathers originally, when he passed we inherited it) so apart from looking great it has sentimental value for us!






So now the front room has become the dining room, and a place to show my Fire King collectibles in cabinets.....




I think it looks alot better.....
Next we may remove the carpet and stain and varnish the Hardwood floors, but that may happen after winter.
The carpet helps keep the house warm!
Thanks to Curlypops for her advise!
Next may be the kitchen, I am on the look out for a work bench to use in the middle of the room so I can surround it with my collection of retro stools.................................








4 comments:

CurlyPops said...

Muchos better!

Drewzel said...

Likey!
I am sooooooo coveting those armchairs!

Bellgirl said...

Very nice, love the orange! I can feel a fondue party coming on, woo-hoo!

Bellgirl said...

( Squeeee- I just clocked the pic od socket on the sidebar- I'll have to show my husband, he'll go squeee too! Socket looks a bit like our Maisy Brown- she's half JRT, half Pom: http://bellgirl.com.au/2008/08/have-you-met-miss-brown_16.html