Showing posts with label Country Primitives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Country Primitives. Show all posts

3.04.2010

The Good Old Country Stuff

When it comes to decorating my own home, it is truly eclectic. I mean after all, I've got vintage surfboards in my bedroom! But I've always been in love with the really, good, old country primitives. This old dry sink filled with all my wooden bowls and stuff is one of my favorite things. Plus the bottom is great for storage. I love this old chippy white painted cupboard that hangs above my dry sink. It holds "a little this, a little that", all my stuff!! We pretty much ripped out all the standard kitchen cabinets in this house. We still need to finish the walls, and the remaining only base kitchen cabinet I kept is to the right, I just painted it red for now. This awesome green and red old primitive cupboard is by far one of my very favorites. I shows the wear on the doors from being opened and closed so many times over the years. All my dishes and plates are stashed inside. This old, are very heavy, country cupboards holds all of our food stuff, or whatever is the correct term for "food storage". The old vintage "cocktails" sign above use to hang outside of a bar in Pasadena in the early 50's. It's one of my very favorite advertising pieces. I've had these old vintage crocks forever. You don't see them as much as you use to. I store random stuff in these too. They sit below a vintage stove from the 1920's that I have. You guessed, the ovens on the stove are used for storage as well! Here, again, are just some more of my little country cabinets I use instead of the "usual" kitchen cabinets. Still need to get some bead board up. When I bought the house it had ugly, dark paneling. Paint was a quick fix until I can begin to work on the walls in the house. I put a few little vintage "wall banger" cabinets up in the kitchen where the ugly, dark oak ones use to be. Here's another one of those type of cabinets. This one is cool because inside it has little cubbies. My kitchen is still a work in progress as is most of my home. It is like when I finally finish one thing, I move on and want to change something else. I think that type of continuous re-decorating, and all of our vintage stuff is just the nature of this business. It is incurable!!

1.10.2010

A New Week at Country Roads

A week ago, "the store" was trashed! We had been SO busy with the New Years Day sale and the following days after. Now, everything is put back together again. What I LOVE about Country Roads is all the different displays and merchandise. It is wonderful to have "something for everyone". Here's what I'm talking about:








When I first opened Country Roads on a rainy California morning back on January 2nd, 1993, we primarily carried country primitive antiques. Although that is one of my first loves, it is really nice to evolved to a business that pretty much offers "something for everyone"! I look forward to visiting with you all during this new decade of ours. And please know, I will continue to work has hard as I can to giving you a place to shop that you "deserve". Myself and my Country Roads family are "steppin' up our game" this year. I'll have some more great pictures later this week, please check back for more "Country Roads Eye Candy"

11.30.2009

Mixing Decorating Styles

As much as I LOVE the old chippy paint, and country primitives, I also have a LOVE for the beach and everything tropical! I'm a CA native from sunny Southern CA and have always lived within about a ten minute drive to the beach! My home is a mix of decorating styles and collections. One of my collections is old bathing suits. The swimsuit pictured above is one I've had, but the dress form is new, just brought her home. It's NOT the time of year to buy anything for me. I have a small Catalina Swimwear logo stuff. The framed advertisement above came from an old magazine advertising Catalina Swimwear.The vintage Catalina advertising life preserver was at one time used in a department store that displayed Catalina Swimwear. When I noticed that the dress form pictures above had the Catalina logo, well, as I said, she had to come home with me! My house is filled with vintage furniture and collections. My bedroom is kind of a mix of decorating styles. I love the beach, tropical stuff, and Maui (oh how I miss Maui), so my room is a mix of not only that but blended with old country primitives as well as a few vintage surfboards. The old vintage beauty shop chair is by far one of my very favorite things not just in my bedroom, but my house! It was re-done in a bark cloth type tropical fabric and the chair is so comfortable. The chair also works well as a climbing toy for Riley. She loves to make the chair go up as high as it can go. I always feel bad when customers are never sure if they should buy something they have fallen in love with at Country Roads because they are just not sure it will go with the rest of their house. My house is a "home" and it's filled with things that I love, things that hold a place in my heart. Our houses are meant to be "homes". My "home" is filled with things, family and friends that I love! Happy Monday.

9.22.2009

Awesome Antiques!

I do blogs for a few of my dealers at Country Roads. It helps promote not only their individual businesses, but the store overall. And with the health care system the way it is (no I'm not going to get into THAT) the blogs also pay for my health insurance!! Ginny has unbelieveable antiques! And most of her stuff is my very favorite, country primitive. I bought that big cupboard from her not too long ago, and I bought the funeral sign last year. These are only a few of the things I've bought from Ginny over the years. For Ginny's blog post yesterday, I did a slideshow. I thought I would share it with you so you too could see all the wonderful treasures this girl has!! And of course, it you "see" something you can't live without, you can always give the store a call and we can ship it! Enjoy these pictures of some awesome antiques!
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9.02.2009

White Wednesday

The chippy white stuff, the "patina", it is my favorite!
The wear, the imperfection of vintage pieces is priceless.
The dirty, the stuff that has been discarded and kicked around is always the best.
Add a little color AND some rust, and I've got a real treasure.
The old crackly white that is just beginning to get "chippy" never, ever escapes my eye! And I have to have it. I know when it comes to describing my love affair with the old chippy white stuff, I'm not alone! Happy White Wednesday, and now go visit Kathleen and see some more wonderful stuff!!

6.27.2009

"My Guilt Runeth Over"

For those of you that know Ginny DeRosa, you have to know what awesome primitive antiques she has. This girl comes up with things I haven't seen in years. One being, this unbelievable cupboard above! It was love at first sight for me. I would visit it, admire its white chippy paint, open and close the bins below, and just dream of how it would look in my house. I haven't "invested" in a piece like this in a very long time.I must have looked at this cupboard each time I was at the store for the past two months, just trying to justify a reason in my mind, why it needed to be in my house. Then one day the light bulb went on! With the arrival of Baby Morgan in my home, Riley's little playroom was given up. I mean, I had to have a place to store her toys and what better place than in the deep bins of this great cupboard. Next was, how do I justify spending the money I don't really have. Ginny, being the wonderful, generous person she is, gave me a great discount (she knew she could come visit the cupboard at my house any day) and let me make monthly payments to her. What a great person, don't you think. So, as I take my time filling up this great cupboard with collections around my home, framing some pictures to add to the shelves,there isn't a day that goes by that I don't smile as I walk by this cupboard, even if "my guilt runeth over"!!

5.20.2009

Country Roads Eye Candy!!

Seems like the days I'm at Country Roads, I never get the time to really do our store justice with my pictures. This week-end when I'm working, I am REALLY going to make an effort to take lots of pictures to put together for a slideshow! We've got so much great stuff. I look at these pictures and think, "wow, I'm lucky to have the job that I have". I hope you enjoy them as well. I'm in love with the old store display above, seriously, totally in love!! In all my years I've never seen one like this with the bins down below. I wish I had the room and money for it to come home with me!

I also have a real love for these types of screened pie safes too.

Anymore, it's getting harder and harder to find the really good country primitives like this chimney cupboard with all original chippy paint.

I like the way the contrast shows in this picture with the simplicity of the farm table surrounded by elegant chairs.

So many times dealers "mess" with the old pieces, like replacing original old glass. I rather have the cracked glass, like this old, green painted bead board cupboard has than have someone mess with it or alter it.

I'm a sucker for architectural pieces, and this one is awesome. I prefer mine just a bit more beat up and chippy, but this is really a nice piece!

And this farm table, with a mix of colored chairs speaks for itself, awesome. I think the coolest part about Country Roads, and yes, I am bragging, but we have so much variety. I think that is what makes us stand out, a little of something for everyone!!