Revamped Home Furnishings: Olivia's Play Kitchen

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Olivia's Play Kitchen

This is my very first post & it's one of my favorite projects. I first saw the idea at Dwellings by Devore (one of my favorite blogs). I saw it right before my daughter's 2nd birthday & I knew I had to make her one. Plus I already had an old sewing table I wasn't using that was almost identical to Mrs. Devore's. This is just the before pic & I should have some "in progress" updates within a few days. In the meantime here's a link to both Part 1 & Part 2 of my "inspiration" kitchen

Im hoping mine will be as cute!

Dwellings by DeVore part 1
Dwellings by DeVore part 2

2 comments:

BrianneJuly 4, 2010 at 12:04 PM
HeyApril cute idea. I see litte botiques selling this stuff all the time. How about one of those metal collectors that have tons of fridges ,washers/dryers & stoves in thier back yard. Id stop & ask if I could tear out a burner or two. Also do you have a habitat 4 humanity store? They have faucets n stuff like that 4 cheap. Love ya
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AprilJuly 4, 2010 at 1:32 PM
Good idea - I think I found something that might work (just because Im trying to hurry & finish) We do have a Habitat for Humanity store, I LOVE IT! Our Realtor told us about it when we bought the house & its seriously one of my favorite stores! Jey makes fun of me because the people who work there know the girls by name! They're awesome, Im actually going to have a link to their website & a page featuring all my awesome finds from them!
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Welcome to Revamped!

I set this blog up to hopefully be an expansion of an idea that I've had since I was 19! At that time I had a brand new baby girl, the keys to my very first apartment, a single mother's income & a taste for design that was way out of my own league. I remember going to the most expensive furniture showroom in town thinking that if I could just save up enough for one really nice piece, I could fake everything else with knockoffs or discount department store finds. After about 3 laps around the store I realized that not only would I have to give up groceries for a year so that I could afford the armoire I fell in love with, but I had no business even buying the three moss covered Styrofoam balls in the bowl on the matching coffee table (which by the way were $75)!

I left the store frustrated & totally convinced that I could make these pieces -only better- on my own, and more importantly, on my budget. And that's where it all started, armed with a few hand me down pieces from family members & some killer thrift store finds, I decided that the furniture I couldn't afford would serve as "inspiration pieces". With some help & encouragement from my mom(especially with anything involving sewing) I actually made that tiny little apartment pretty cute.

All the work definitely made me appreciate everything I had & I'm pretty sure I still haven't seen a 19 yr. old with a more stylish apartment!

Since then it's become way more than a hobby. At any given time I have at least 6 "projects" going on in my garage, I can't help it. It's in my blood. My Mom came from a big Italian farming family with six kids - imagine the hand me down action there. I don't think they threw anything away. I guess she passed the idea on that everything could be re-purposed if you were creative enough. My Dad's mom was a yard sale queen. Her house is filled with beautiful antique furniture that I'm sure she got for less than 1/4 of it's value because she had to scrape 18 layers of paint out of the hand carved details so that she could restore their original finishes. I swear, people around town knew who she was because she'd hit up at least 15 different yard sales on any random Saturday! So, I blame my family for my obsession. But, I stand behind the idea that good design can come cheap - really cheap.