Scanning, Shredding and Rethinking
This past year, my goal was to reduce the seven filing cabinet drawers of paperwork for stuff here down to “fewer.” All the drawers were…
Tag: Furniture
Anyone for a Pic-a-Nic?
Way, way back in 2020 (yes, during the pandemic), I ordered 6 huge fiberglass planters from terracastproducts.com. Four of them replaced the concrete ones dating…
More Chairs
What I didn’t mention in the previous post is that, on that same trip to World Market where I scored the cute chair for the…
A Chair for the Guest Room
A couple guests have mentioned that a cozy chair in the guest room would be a welcome addition. While we have a nice queen bed,…
Another Ottoman
A while back I picked up an ottoman cheap from an auction along with a bunch of other stuff. While I had actually made an…
End Table Ending (with Lamps!)
As detailed in the last two posts, I had some tables and lamps shipped out from my parents’ house in late 2021. A little over…
More Old Tables Made New
Growing up, my parents had three tables in the living room that they purchased shortly before they got married–one long low coffee table and two…
Prettified Table Lamps
Almost two years ago, when I was off in Ohio helping tidy up my parents’ basement, I set aside a few things to have shipped…
Even More Auction Finds
I’ve continued to find bits and bobs from auction houses for the house. Over the last year I picked up some great bargains. Like this…
Round Table Tale
Early last year I found an interesting auction listing at a house in Connecticut with whom I’d done business in the past. When the item…
Another use for that fabric…
(For those who haven’t been following along, back in 2015 when we had initial inspections as part of the escrow process, we discovered the baffle…
Found on Auction
Longtime readers to this site know that much of the furniture (especially in the great room) was picked up from local auction houses. Now that…
All the Way from Ohio
Last fall I drove out to Ohio and spent a month visiting my parents. During that time I organized their basement. Things like the fifty-year-old…
Respray
When we lived in San Francisco, we had a strange little balcony that was accessed from the living room. It looked out into the second…
Hat Rack Tricks
Since I seem to be on a home-furnishings-post writing frenzy, I found one more item in my backlog of pictures. Shortly after we moved in,…
New Old Table
In the north hall, next to the armchair and the ottoman I made, sat a table–one of those formed plywood ones from IKEA. The finish…
Ottoman Empire and the Comfy Chair
A few months ago I created a bit of furniture to go with the chair I had reupholstered. First, though, the story of the chair.…
“New” Desk
Still working through the backlog of images and stories, but unlike the last multi-post saga, this is a relatively quick story. During his last visit…
Making the Great Room Great, Step Five: Finding Furniture
During the first few years we lived here, there was much discussion about any furniture we wanted to purchase for the Great room. We wanted…
More Furniture Finds
After buying the lovely table online at Michaan’s, I started visiting in person during their preview hours and, thanks to a friend, also discovered their…
A Trip to the Auction House
Soon after buying this place, Agent Smith and I discussed ways to furnish it that did not involve rushing off to IKEA, Restoration Hardware or…
Blue Room Refresh, Part 1
One of the first big changes I made to the house was painting the blue room. Originally a very deep purple, as it housed the…
Console Tables
(Sorry, no witty/punny title came to mind for this post.) In early 2019 I started scouring the interwebs for some tables for the foyer. A…
My Grandmother’s Cedar Chest
Since I’m one of only two grandchildren on my father’s side of the family, I ended up with a lot of stuff when it came…
Finally, new posts coming…but first, a couch!
It’s been a busy few months at Purgatory, but I’ve been writing new posts this week as I sift through the huge backlog of pictures,…
Finishing the Kitchen Chairs
Continuing from a post waaaay back at the start of this year… Once the metal kitchen chairs were disassembled, it was time to obtain new…
More Kitchen Chairs
While rebuilding the Great Wall last year, Agent Smith’s father took some time to refinish the kitchen table and chairs. In September of this year,…
The Kitchen Table
Way back in 2000, my grandmother moved out of the house she had lived in for close to fifty years, and as part of the…
The Best Mattress
When Agent Smith and I first moved in to our place in San Francisco, we each had a queen-size bed. However, my mattress was too soft…
In the bedroom
As mentioned in the previous post, we didn’t have much furniture when we moved in to Purgatory and we have been very slow in buying…
Our lack of a Chesterfield Sofa
Shortly after we took possession of Purgatory, it became apparent that we were going to need more furniture. Going from one master bedroom, two offices,…
Final Blue Room Pics
Here are the before shots, followed by that shot or a similar one that was loaded into the Sherwin Williams Color Snap App for a messy mockup,…