Tiered Trays, How I Decorate With Them

I really like tiered trays, they provide organization and add vertical space to display the things you love.

Here are a few ways that I've used tiered trays in our home.

I really love having lots of plants around, especially inside when it's cold and dreary outside.

The tiered trays give me extra room for more plants in a smaller space, win win.

I like adding little decor items like this sweet wooden sign.

The space between each level is spacious enough to give all the plants plenty of light and room to grow.

At the coffee bar space is at a minimum so having a tiered tray really helps organize all the things we need like, coffee pods, creamer, sugar etc.

This sweet angel lives on a single tier tray in our master bedroom, I really like the added height it brings.

I have risers or trays under all of my lamps, they just look better in my opinion, here's one in our living room area on an iron decorative tray.

I would love to hear if you use tiered trays in your home and how you use them. Thanks for stopping by.....Hope everyone is having a great start to the New Year!

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My Obession With Farm Animals

I would have one of these cow heads in every room if my husband would let me!

I don't know what it is about cows. Perhaps it's the soulful eyes or the gentleness they portray, whatever it is, I love them! This one was done by the fabulous Cindy Austin from Pinkgloves2

Horses hold a fascination for me too, they are such magnificent creatures, made perfectly for a human to ride.

Cows and chickens, a farmhouse staple!

The wonderfully creative blogger Kris from
Junk Cottage Chic gave me this awesome cow sign.

If you want country or farmhouse style, cows are the answer!

Love the shade on my rooster lamp.

In my opinion you can never have too many cows, or any farm animals for that matter!

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A Little Room Off My Kitchen and Attic Treasures

I have a little room off of the kitchen which has been neglected since I moved in to this 1920's farmhouse. It needs new flooring but I love the wood walls and decided it was time to do something in there.
Here's one corner of the room.

I bought that little chair at an estate sale for $15 five years ago, it came without a seat and I never got around to fixing it. I stuck an old pottery piece filled with old and new yard sticks.

The dish rack was a flea market find. The little blue dishes were found in my father in laws attic. Here's a close up of them. The wood herb boxes are from Antique Farmhouse, there are four to the set and the other two are in the kitchen.
Here's a close up of the pretty blue plates.

I love the little bird, so pretty.


Here's a shot of the ceiling, I so love the wood bead board.

In the other corner I put this little blue table that I painted a few years ago. 

It's great storage for cookbooks.

Do you recognize this adorable cow sign? It's from the wonderfully talented
 Kris at Junk Chic Cottage
She was redoing her kitchen and I told her how much I admired it and she GAVE it to me!! Such a sweetie, thanks again Kris. It's now hanging the the little room off the kitchen.

In another corner is my antique Pot Belly Cabinet. The drawers hold  kitchen towels in one side and doggie treats in the other.

While I was in the attic finding the pretty blue bird plates look what else I found.......

A gorgeous old chandelier, but wait......

There wasn't just one beautiful old chandelier, there was TWO!!!
They are so heavy, I just can't believe they were up there the whole time. I don't think they were ever hung up. My father in law traveled all over the world in the Air Force so I have no idea where he got them, but I really love them.

All the crystals are wrapped up and secured, I'll leave them that way til I figure out where I'm going to hang the chandeliers.

Who knows what other treasures lurk up there?

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Cushions for the Bench

Overwhelmed.......do you ever feel like this?
 That there are so many 'to do' projects in your home that you feel frozen.....not knowing where to start and if you do start you're soon pulled in another direction on another project?  That's been me.......until now! I am forcing myself to focus..... focus on one room at a time until it's done! And focusing on one project in that room until that is done.   So far it's working!   As you may know I'm currently in the process of focusing on re-doing my dining room and more specifically on the farmhouse table bench. If you followed my blog when I lived in the mobile home you might remember this picture.

Mr Magazine and I made the table from an old bed and heart pine planks and the bench from the same heart pine. When we moved into the 1920's house we had to shorten the table and the bench because the dining room was smaller.  Here's the farmhouse table and bench as it looks in that room.

You can't really see the bench in this pic but trust me it's there, and unfortunately it's hard. Yep I actually had a couple of complainers, family members sheesh, they said it was too hard on the rump. So kind person that I am I decided to give them some cush on the tush.

Ahhh much better. I found these at Pier 1 and they were like the perfect size YAY! I think the fabric cushions give this room the softness it needed.

 I could have made some but I felt lazy this week. Plus they were on sale for half off!

They didn't come with any ties so to keep them in place I sewed two inch wide velcro on the bottom of the cushion and the receiving part I stapled on to the bench.  It worked out great! Don't worry about those staples, the bench already has holes and dents so I can take them out and it will look like the holes belong there.

 So I'm considering that project done! On to the next!

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My Farmhouse Kitchen Reveal

My kitchen is moving right a long. The best part is, most of what we did we already had the materials for. Very little was spent on this kitchen redo, mainly lots of hard work. That's how it's been on the redo of this house, we've improvised, re-purposed, redid, repaired or painted to make it into a home we love. That's the best kind of redo in my opinion. Anybody can throw lots of money at a renovation and make it look spectacular and that's ok but to me it's even better when you can redo a whole room and spend next to nothing.

Mr. Magazine put up three of my open shelves and I didn't waste any time loading them up lol. Seems like I can't leave an empty space empty for a second. I wanted to give you a partial reveal. Still working on a few things but this covers most of it. If you want to see some of the before pics just click HERE

I still need to put in those little round wood things to cover the screw holes.

In this picture you can see the ceiling that my daughter and I did. I think above all things this wood board ceiling gives it the true farmhouse feel.
Here's a before of the above kitchen...

Coming in from the dining room.

We use that chalk board all the time to leave messages or make lists for the store.

To see more about the transformation of this little table click HERE

I have  a huge pantry in my 1920's kitchen. For those of you who don't know, this home has been in my husbands family for 92 years. My hubs told me he has memories of his Big Mimi (gramma) donning an apron and cooking from early in the morning through suppertime. She would say 'Toby, go out and catch me a chicken" (insert Southern accent) He'd go out and run one down, she would lay it on an old stump and off came it's head, sorry but that's how it was done. She would pluck the feathers while heading back to the house and later that day it was finger lickin' good fried chicken eating time! I can imagine her going to the pantry and getting out the flour and other ingredients to make a meal. My hubs said they ate like kings!

That old towel bar has been up for 90 years.

There's tons of shelving.

I always remove my items from the boxes they came in and put them in glass or plastic containers. I like to actually see the food on the shelves, I just think it looks really homey and cozy.

Yep we're vitamin freaks lol, these little shelves are the perfect size for the bottles and for spices too.

I hate having a microwave on the counter so since there was an electrical outlet in the pantry it seemed like the perfect spot.

We're going to add some more shelving lower down to hold dog food and water bottles.

So that's it, hope you enjoyed the little tour. I just realized that it was exactly one year ago today that I completed the farmhouse kitchen in my mobile home. Whew no wonder I'm tired! If you want to see that post go HERE 
Here's a pic of it....

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