The Thrift Shop Romantic
Blog URL http://thriftshopromantic.blogspot.com
Located Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Tags decorating, crafting, thrift store, budget, vintage, victorian, antiques
Blog and project site for fun, vintage-style home decorating ideas, crafting, gifting, thrifting and collecting on a budget. Includes thrift store, flea market and antiques resources for western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.
Latest Blog Posts
- Treasure Box Wednesday: Treasured Transformations on Nov 18, 2009 in bathroom room makeovers blue room painting french
To indulge in a little personification for a moment, my house lately must feel a little like Cinderella-- post-fairy-Godmother-makeover. In the last month, two rooms have gotten a very new look, and I'm pretty pleased with the results.Over the weeken...
- Choosing Wall Paint You Won't Regret on Nov 15, 2009 in how color changes in light painting warm and cool colors pink choosing paint
What is it about choosing wall paint that somehow ends up seeming like a deep, painful decision akin to Kennedy's pressures in Cuban Missile Crisis? I mean, it's just paint after all. Color. Something to slap on the walls, right?And yet anyone who de...
- Treasure Box Wednesday: the Road Less Traveled on Nov 11, 2009 in fireplace transferware mccoy pottery portrait vase treasure box wednesday alabaster lamp victorian
In Sunday's post, we talked about how the Victorian look isn't particularly popular right now, so those of us who love romantic decorating can find some pretty amazing things at thrift stores.This post will explain where some of that idea came from.S...
- The Victorians Might Have Loved Thrift Shopping on Nov 8, 2009 in victorian decorating creative decorating on a budget silver tablerunners romantic decorating
As I came away with a bundle of unique goodies from the Red White and Blue thrift store this weekend, I realized: the Victorians might very well have loved thrift shopping.I mean think about it: they enjoyed changing up things in their homes regularl...
- Treasure Box Wednesday: Hot Cup o' Good Fortune on Nov 4, 2009 in lusterware pink depression glass shiny brites tea cups carnival glass
After a few errands on Saturday, I set out on that gray, blustery day a-thrifting down Route 30.Why does it seem when winds do howl and rain does pelt against the windows, there's comfort wandering around a brightly-lit thrift store or quiet antique...
- Fireplace Fun: Part Two on Nov 1, 2009 in fireplace building a fireplace fire surround mantel too small home improvement mistakes
When last we left the Great Fireplace Installation of 2009, most of the wooden trim had been attached, and the fireplace was getting an extra coat of paint...Little did I know the unexpected challenges I would face!The first one, was the molding whic...
- Treasure Box Wednesday: Heavenly Finds on Oct 28, 2009 in rummage sale salvation army thrift store cherub lamp construction junction flea markets hobnail pink
And a-one, and a-two, and everybody sing...Er, no, better not. Let's just talk about our friend the conducting cherub here, and the other found items for this Treasure Box Wednesday.The elaborate winged fellows are a lamp discovered at Construction J...
