Vintage & Repurposed Home Decor & Furniture
As much as I absolutely LOVE shopping, fixing, painting, repairing and generally puttering around my house preparing items for the market, the market itself is soooo much work. I mean actual back-breaking, heavy-lifting, unpacking, repacking, lots of driving, endless fluffing work! We, at the Backyard Bungalow, are always the first to arrive … [Read more...]
A lovely reader asked me how I did on the estate sale I went to last Friday, so instead of just telling her about my antique haul, I thought I'd show all of you! Last Friday, all I found was this desk some lace curtains and an enamelware bucket. BUT, when I went back today, I found sooo much more! Bob and Mark, the gentlemen who run the … [Read more...]
Drum roll… Orchestra fanfare…. Curtain rising…. And now….the GUEST BEDROOM REVEAL!!! That sounds so exciting, doesn’t it? Well, I hope this post lives up to the hype. Let’s start with a view from the door: This is the bedroom as we saw it with the realtor in 2009. The view is also taken from the … [Read more...]
What a whirlwind weekend at Vintage Whites Market!! Whew! It started on Thursday morning, actually, with me trying to get all things Backyard Bungalow tagged and priced and packed in boxes. I seem to go into panic mode just before a show and I probably do more panicking than packing! In the afternoon, my friend and biz partner, Donna, … [Read more...]
Today, I thought I'd show you the guest room that I designed. My daughter moved back to the parental nest temporarily, so I designed it with her taste in mind, as well as my own. Below is a view from the hallway. I found the bed at a garage sale here a couple summers ago for $40.00. They told me the price with a huge question mark … [Read more...]
Hi, I'm Jean. I live in historic Butte, Montana in a Craftsman home built in 1920. This blog is all about my adventures (and sometimes misadventures) in updating and decorating my house with antiques and vintage goods I find at garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales or wherever cool things from the past are waiting to be discovered.
