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Sometimes when I buy something at a yard sale or resale shop, I just use it the way I found it until I can get around to altering it to my surroundings. Here are three pieces that fell victim to that fate.  I purchased this floor lamp at a charity resale shop about a year ago. This was a fairly recent purchase from an estate sale.  It is the stand for a globe.   This table I have had the longest...probably four years or more.   All these pieces have a bamboo look to the legs so I decided to attack them at the same time.   Both the lamp and the table will be used in my bedroom.  I like that they each have the metal piecrust edge to the tabletop area.   This piece will be in my foyer.  Doesn't it look better already and that is just the primer?   Since the lamp was already painted, I skipped the primer.  I mixed Woodmont Cream (BM), Favorite Tan(SW), and Candlewood Cream(?) toget...

Logically I would now give you the update on the dining room.  But, instead I'm taking you to a room on the second floor that is coming together a little faster than the dining room. I spoke of the floor refinishing in an earlier post.   Because I kept the toile wallpaper, and the painted finish above the picture rail, this room went together rather quickly. The verse that wraps around the room near the ceiling reads, "The dream is always Running ahead, To catch up, to Live for a moment in unison with it, that is the Miracle."  I am keeping this as a reminder.  It is not an easy lesson for me to learn. The window seat in this room is one of my favorite features of this house. Over the years I fluffed it ... and streamlined it. This incarnation lasted a little longer than it should have based on the fading of the fabrics.  The sheer fabric on the windows was the same pattern as the wa...