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My husband made this sliding barn door for my birthday. He used tongue & groove reclaimed pecky cypress wood a relative had removed from their home during a remodel. I located the frame at a website called Rustica. I absolutely love it! This photo doesn’t really show the beauty of the wood.
He also made a new, much smaller table that I really wanted after I saw how well the door turned out. The photo of the table below is a better depiction of the wood’s actual color.
I like the industrial look and you can see touches of black iron in our home, though it’s far from an industrial interior design.
This is what the wood looked like when he began. Luckily, there were plenty of planks to choose from so he was able to find enough that didn’t have serious knot hole damage. The planks were originally used as a half wall. They were stained a deep, dark brown so he did quite a bit of work to bring back their natural beauty.
When we were asked if we wanted the wood, I shouted a loud “Yes!” before my husband even had time to think about it. The previous owner had a mirrored wall and door in the living room. (That was the style back then.) The mirrors came off years ago and I had always wanted a barn door in that location. Now I have one that I absolutely love! ♥
This is the table he made me for Christmas from the same wood. He removed the tongue and groove sections from the planks used for the table top. I located the iron table legs on Amazon. The only problem was, they were only legs and there was nowhere to attach the wood. My husband came up with a great solution. He built a support from parts on an old bed frame.
I’m all over the place when it comes to interior design. 🙂 I like some antiques but not all of them, at least for our home.
I have an antique humpback trunk that I love and and antique hand made ladder I use to display a few quilts. I nearly had a heart attack when my husband offered to sand it down and remove all the old touches of paint adorning it from it’s previous life. Thank goodness I didn’t just wake up one morning and see him already busy working on it!!
I like minimalism so I have very few photos or knick knacks around.
Living in a coastal area we have accumulated many, many seashells on family vacations. I believe if you love them enough to keep them, you should love them enough to display them!
I prefer to think my style is what they call “eclectic” though a professional designer might get a chuckle out of that description.
See that sailboat on the shelf in the center photo above? There’s a rather interesting story about how it came to be too.
A few years ago, we rented a beach house in Ormond Beach. It’s a few hours north of us, also on the east coast of Florida. Ormond Beach is the next city north of Daytona Beach. I love the small quaint feeling of Ormond, OBC (Ormond by the Sea) as it’s referred to by the locals. If I could choose a place to own a vacation home, that would be it!
One day when we were walking on the beach I found this piece of driftwood in the sand. I thought I could make it into a sailboat. I’m glad I kept it but never attempted to use my DIY skills on it. A few years later, I met someone who’s son lived in Maine used to carve and sell handmade sailboats from driftwood. (He’s long since retired.) I practically begged her to ask him if he’d do just one more. Okay… who am I kidding? I actually did beg! LOL
She talked him into doing for HER in exchange for my quilting her top. I think I got the better half of that deal.
You can see the before and after below. He even rigged the sails for me.
We have even more seashells outside. My husband found this plastic boat (originally a kid’s bed) being thrown away in front of a neighbor’s home.
We used bags of sea shells and some blue tumbled glass we drove over to Tampa Bay on the west coast of Florida to purchase. Here it is just before planting flowers in it.
Time to Quilt 