Chocolate, Mercury Glass, and Change

        Last Saturday I invited a dear friend and her mother- who was a dear friend of my mother’s -over to see my house and my yard. They came today.

        Those simple, heartfelt words, “Can you come by on Thursday?”, began a fabulous frenzy of clearing away clutter, moving and cleaning things, and creative house thinking that had me laughing to myself with pleasure and inspiration. I also enjoyed several days of needed rain that prevented me from sprucing up the yard until early this morning.

        I started in the master bath. The walls are chocolate brown, and I have enjoyed them, but I wanted subtle sparkle.

        I found it in two wonderful mercury glass lamps I found at TJ Maxx.  Then I found these rugs.

        And so it became about chocolate and mercury glass and cream and charcoal.  I started painting frames of prints I had throughout the house with Krylon’s Satin Nickel- a wonderful taupe/soft silver color.

        Everything started to work together, and I loved how my Venetian glass pieces looked with the mercury glass.

 

        I had already painted the chair (with Satin Nickel) and recovered the seat with a soft silver/taupe) damask.

        I painted a mirror I bought for $5, and I am using it as the top to my vanity now. I think the fact that it juts out a bit is interesting. (That’s my story…)

        I also propped a full length mirror, also framed in silver, on the wall side of my vanity.

         It looks especially pretty with just lamp light.

         I have been dissuaded from climbing a step ladder, Satin Nickel spray paint can in hand, to spray the bathroom light fixture.

        Instead, at the recommendation of my guests, I am going to add beveled mirror frames to the mirrors instead. (However, if I created a protective tent, held the spray paint can at just the right angle, stood completely still on the step ladder, worked very quietly so my husband didn’t know what I was trying to do, it COULD happen…)

        I am linking to the following parties, for the first time.