We live in THE WOODS ... come visit

So honored to be in the  

10+ Fall Home Tours Round-up over at Debbiedoo's

Thanks Debbie.  

Check out all the great homes she picked.

Be inspired. 

Hope your enjoy the Tour.

Extremely Photo Heavy ... 

hope you can visit for a little while.

The subdivision that we live in is named THE WOODS and it is almost like living in the Country with 100 houses with acreage or large yards. We have about one acre. We have lived here for twenty-six years, the longest we have lived anywhere. It is a house that I love to decorate and always have tons of unfinished projects sitting around. The large front porch seems to be a good place to stash some of these unfinished projects like this one ... 
  

This green cabinet was a freebie and you will love the before and after, so check back to see the finished project.

I love to decorate this old farm table for the seasons ... the crows are looking for some corn to eat on this Harvest table.

  

I have been re-doing the Entry, so we may get stuck in here and not see much of the rest of the house. 
Hope to do a blog on the re-do soon.

 

This is the wall to the left. I made this old pedestal many years ago from a piece of bannister from the high school. Sitting atop is a concrete base of a fountain. The Welch Hutch was purchased just recently from Finds Thrift Store for $265.00.
 Wood flooring was installed about five years ago.

While we are here; I will show some close-ups of the Fall decoration and items on the hutch ... 

so please grab a cup of hot apple cider and stay with me. 

Remember to Give Thanks
The prayer book with the brass and turquoise  
cross belonged to Mr.Z's Mother.

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This is my Welch Hutch for my crock collection, but decorated for Fall right now.

 

Bottom shelf holds some of my favorite crocks.

Please check back later for a blog on this DIY rusty spring decoration.

 

Love how the candle light reflects off the antique stone fruit and old pottery.

Love the brown transferware and the old wooden acorn finial.

 This is the sweetest platter I have ever owned. Looks like it might have held a casserole or soup tureen. Sold to me by a dear friend.

 

 

Sweet little Squirrels my Niece made for me 

years ago.

  

Old iron nutcracker with acorns. The

 large one is a Burr Oak acorn and it is big. 

Now on with the rest of the Entry. 

To the right as you enter, I have this wonderful old iron grid that is so much fun to decorate. 

 

Then below in the corner it is a collection of Newel posts and one of my collection of small chairs.

 

Then the Hall Tree where I store some of my vintage umbrellas.

The open door you see, goes to the dining room.

Take a peak inside at my fall table.

Have you ever seen a Parade Umbrella? ... it has a very long handle so the umbrella is up high and will not block the view of the people behind you. Don't know what the long point on the top is. 

Use your imagination !

 

Looking back to the front door. The curtain is just an old lace tablecloth draped on the window.

Before entering the Living room, you pass under the arch, not really arched, but two antique cast iron brackets decorate each corner and Gabriel above blowing his horn.
 

For the season, I have this nice plant, part of a metal fence and another little chair holding a grapevine pumpkin borrowed from the dining table to anchor the large china cabinet. Above that is a gold gild antique mirror.

 

Lots a pictures for such a small space but hope you enjoyed this.

You can see parts of the Living Room by viewing these two blogs Fireplace and Drop cloth Drapes. 

Leaded /stained glass windows cover six by six windows. They came out of a church in Houston, Texas that was built in 1903. We had to do extensive restoration on the middle one. The outside ones are on the original hinges and can be opened like a door. The middle one is just hanging inside the window.

Pottery Collection 

LOVE copper

Walking down the hall and peaking into to the guest bedroom ... this bed just says ... "come take and little nap" and sometimes I do. 

I LOVE this room full of roses.

 

 This is a California King bed and so comfortable. It is one foot longer than a regular king. I have two metal garden screens behind the bed. I made this spread out of two twin size spreads by lapping one over the other and sewing them together; thus the ruffle down the middle. Just keep using it because I can't find one I like better. Used the ruffled piece I cut off for a window valance.

I have been removed and swapped some furniture out of this room and still working on it, but will show you a few pictures as is. (more unfinished projects)

 

Please have a chair and rest awhile.

 Just did not have the heart to scrap these pieces of Sterling.

Now a peak at the main Bath off the hall. Restored lamp with French script shade from Wall-Mart.

That all for now ... thanks for the visit.

You can take a closer look at the china cabinet in the living room as you leave or would you like to stay for a while. The guest bedroom bed is real comfortable.

Blessings.

Audrey Zumwalt

http://audreyzumwalt.blogspot.com/

Timeless Treasures

Thanks for staying with me.

Knick of Time

Debbiedoo's Carolina Fall Home Tour. 

Painter's Drop Cloth Drapes...Stamped Branding Irons

 

Saturday projects for my daughter and I have been working on drapes for the hunter's/guest lodge section of the ranch house which is over the garage. They are week-end ranchers and travel about 500 miles each week-end to take care of the house and ranch chores; so Saturday is the only day we could work on drapes. With all the other chores, we did good to get four panels done each week.

They have quarter horses and raise exotics.  We live about about one hour away. This part of the house has two bedrooms, a bath and a "great-room". It is decorated with Western/Ranch and Mr. Scott loves the old actors from the Western movies.
We are using painter's drop cloths for the drapes and decorated each panel with ranch brands ... or other "brands" that we created. Circle 6 ... we used an old bed spring for the circle and the 6 branding iron. This is a combination of the three, one and zero branding irons.     Just used a regular horseshoe for this brand. This Y in a square is a brand registered to Scott's great grandfather which we believe is Fork Creek Ranch. We cut a stencil for it. They have a Rockin' W branding iron, decorative only, not used for branding. This is the Ranch name. We added the  S, K and J to the brand.  
A small S for Scott (husband) and J for Justin (son) K for Kathie (Mom) ... and numbers ... don't know what the numbers represent.

We put a shallow layer of just regular house trim paint in a recycled aluminum pan and dipped the branding irons in the paint and then stamped them on the painter's drop cloth panels.  Some brands was made with a stencil. We also used black on some of the brands, just using regular craft paint.


There are six windows in the "great-room" that get a lot of  West sun. 
Look up ... the ceiling is done with recycled rusty tin roofing material.
 
Drapes are hung with a tension rod and fit inside the windows so they can be lowered half-way or removed when not needed for blocking the sun. My daughter draped a large bandana over the rod for a valance. Looks really good.

This has been a fun project ... learning as we go.
She is happy with the results and that is important. 

Thanks for visiting ... hope you are inspired to try painter's drop cloths for drapes. 

I made some Drop Cloth Drapes last year and so very happy with them. View here. 

Blessings,
Audrey Z. 

     Inspired:

This is an email I received from Pat at Corn in my Coffee Pot

Hope you will pay her a visit.

She had already made a comment on the curtains, so I got permission from her to post this email that I received from her.

Pat saying:
Oh yes! I loved your curtains. I'm thinking of all the transfers you could do on them. Not just branding irons. You could use different sized round objects for a variation on a circle or bubble theme. You could use shoe prints for a sports themed room. Track or running shoes just across the top edge, you could use a little car and roll a wheeled pattern for a boys room with trucks... Or! a real tire that has been rolled through paint for a bigger effect.

The ideas are limitless!

I pinned this idea. Thank you for sharing them ! Pat

My reply:  

Oh WOW Pat ... these curtains really turned on your ‘inspiration button’ ... love all your ideas and all sound exciting, especially the track shoes and real car tire. What a great idea for someone into car racing. 

What has 'turned-on" your creative button lately? 

 

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