This is our new cabinet! We have been very slowly accumulating furniture, based on whether we can find it cheap, cheap or not.
One of our favorite treasures here in Pensacola is Jennifer's antique flea market. It is owned by a sweet country couple, I think they actually live on the store's grounds, who have 3 big old barn-like areas you can search through for fun items.
Our first find was actually the goblets that are in the cabinet. B and my mom found them while hunting for birthday gifts for me. He got a random assortment of old antique goblets in several fun colors! They are probably my favorite part of hosting (minus the people of course :)
We also found a dining room table and chairs, that we repainted and a coffee table there for a steal!
Our most recent find was this cabinet. It was missing a few knobs (good thing I happen to hoard knobs in my free time) and needed a new back and some painting (it was a light tan color before). But it was only $17.50!! So needless to say, we bought it.
B, being the handy man that he is, put a new backing on it and Kyndall and I, during her visit, shopped around for colors to paint it. We found our paint at walmart! - our every need store, and started painting. We finally put it all together yesterday and the pictures above are of our final product!
I was so excited to have something to display the goblets that B got me, and its just a fun piece of furniture.
*special thanks to Jacki, Rebekah and Linden for their fun anthropologie home accent gifts that I get to display on it. :)*
On another note, yesterday evening our friend Jarrod (who is in B's training) came over and cooked a pork loin for us! we invited some other friends, James and another couple, Tobin and Erin over to eat with us. We had quite a southern feast with mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans. Afterwards we played cards and ate some sweetie pies apple pie, it was a fun night. We are enjoying getting to know some of B's flight mates and it was great to have another wife there for company and to balance out the girls and the boys :)
6 comments:
oh what a beautiful finished product! I love it Ash! The color ended up looking very good. Did you do any of your own "antiquing" to it? I can't really tell from the pictures.
Oh wait, yes I can. I like it alot :)
love it! I want pictures of your other steals!
yea i did just a little bit of antiquing to it w/ the sand paper...some sections had the brown underneath and some had the tan, but it ended up looking pretty good i think.
um love that color and the knobs! you need to check out and see if the pensacola base has a "yard sale" website. i found quanticoyardsale.com yesterday... so cool! it's like a craigslist for the military! i heard most bases have them.
and isn't time with other wives AWESOME?! i love spending time with them when i can. big big blessing!
hey ash! i love reading about your life in Florida and your beautiful new cabinet! someday when i have furniture i'll have to get your opinion on some stuff... :)
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