Working With What You've Got

This is my daughter, Hannah's room. She loves the vintage look. Since our home had all been freshly painted, we have not added any accent colors yet. The colors are a toasted almond with an antique white trim. Curtains are panels and hardware from Ikea.

The newspapers were some very old papers from her Dad's keepsakes. The flowers are dried with white status. The pillows are hand made by Hannah's Grandmother with beading, lace & ribbons.

This was our last wall to work on. Rather than using the dog quote black art only on this wall, we shopped the garage and found frames, taking out all pictures in them, a stored poster art, tacked on the wall and a vintage hat Hannah received for her birthday last year.

The antique hat collection was rehung in a level straight line to form a border affect. This gave the room vintage with a contemporary flare. The window frame was a keepsake taken from my old home place once replaced with storm double pane windows. The chalk board is an antique music lined slate board once used to write music notes on.

The contemporary chair was a buy from Marshall's Home Goods. An antique fur stole from Hannah's Aunt Judy drapes across the back. Teddy enjoys the front window view.

Hannah plans to find favorite pictures to replace the old family ones in the frames, once used to decorate my office.

The top case was found in someone's trash in Newport subdivision from Crosby, Texas. A very beloved piece of mine. The bottom case belonged to Hannah's great grandmother, Bessie Madden.

The antique phone was from the basement of the first church we pastored in Brookings, South Dakota. The Paris keepsakes is from Hannah's Uncle Kenny and Aunt Missy purchased from Paris, France. Again, we used books with the theme of this section.

Hannah, loves fashion and form... she was very excited to find these in her artist aunt's attic, Aunt Judy Walston. She enjoys flaunting them with fashion inspirations designed my Hannah.

This was a very old trunk that has now been covered for the 3rd time. Fabrics purchased at Kast and covered by me.

We were thrilled when we found this beautiful rug just before moving into our new home. It was part of our color inspiration for the room. Purchased at Burlington Coat Factory. We paired it with a printed quilt and pillow sham and some throw pillows.