This Is Home...A Salvage Noel

This Is Home...

Burlap Luxe

Home For Un Joyeux Noel

The French linen came from a French brocante

packed in a suitcase.

Perfectly wrinkled and relaxed for a

Salvaged...

Joyeux Noel.

 

  

Creating a salvaged season

Some of you know this piece (desk) that has appeared in

many places in my home, and has made it in

several magazine features.

I was in need of a side-table and could not find

the perfect piece that I could salvage, and

truly did not want to spend money for one

just to settle and not be happy with

the look I was after.

  

Salvage and Reimaged

  

Now my antique desk has become my new side-table.

After living with this desk for over 22 years I

decided it needed a new life.

I cut 16" inches off each side and across the back,

an inch up from the top drawer.

Then the Home Depot wood guys cut me some planks from

a damaged piece of Poplar, my request.

(They know me well)

I simply wood glued each plank to the surface of the 

desk top, screwed the planks in place,

wood puttied the holes, and washed the

planks with white.

  Loving my salvage season

 

Salvage Style

 

Velvet Wreath

  

The velvet wreath, yes, salvaged.

It was a vintage ladies velvet hat they call a

birdcage hat. This is where the hat sits forward on

your head and the netting drapes over your eyes

gently.

 By adding a clipping of pine from the tree,

and a tattered piece of sheeting it hung,

beautifully as my seasonal wreath.

  

Pale Coco Velvet

 

Winter whites and natural tones.

Winter birds is our theme.

 

The Armoire Gets Dressed

 

Here a beautiful ephemera book paper wreath was

created by the beautiful hands of

Rosemary of VillaBarnes.com

This beautiful piece adds so much seasonal beauty

to my home in such an artfully salvaged way.

A SPECIAL thank you to my dear friend,

Vera, over at 

RowHomesAndCobbleStones.blogspot.com

For gifting me such an amazing

wreath.

  

Nordic

A Nordic pine branch I cut and screwed a plank of

wood to its trunk, to then fasten garden stakes

as its limbs all washed in grey and white.

Decorated with tattering of linens, and old salvaged

beaded necklaces coated in plaster and paint

draped as garland with my hand twisted

wire chandeliers.

  

Nordic French

This tree of green received a coat of flat white

spray paint finish to it. Misting it with a

look of frost.

  

Created From Salvage

The tree of Noel sits in a old galvanized planter, and 

is draped in painted beaded necklace garlands.

The crystal prisms are from an old chandelier that I

washed in plaster paints. The look of icicles hanging 

are wood chair back rungs that I sawed off from old chairs.

I drilled a hole through the tops and wired a ring through

them to hang. I then coated the rungs with my Cartapesta

paper mache and washed them with painted age.

Garland

Tattered torn old bed sheets tied together the making of 

loosely strung garland.

    

Wild Birds

 

Ephemera paper bird ornaments I created to rest.

All is calm.

 

Rustic and Handmade Salvage

 

Wrapped in torn and tatter.

 

Nestled With Objects of Desire

 

This Is Home...A Salvaged Noel