Making PROGRESS! What a productive week!

Well...we signed all the docs and it looks like escrow closes next week!  A great thing to be THANKFUL for!  Happy Thanksgiving to all as I know things will be crazy next week...so I am sending my blessings in advance!   This last week was incredibly productive!  I am pretty sure guest the bathroom is pretty much pulled together!  I also worked on refinishing the dining room chairs.  Still have one left to paint but ai am poting some of the transfomations below.  Joe put the dining room table together  (it was his mother's and has been stored down in the basememnt as he sanded it and never finished it)so my next project is the table!!  Here are the accomplishments for this last week!

Here is the Buddha picutre I enhanced with some glitter paint. This is for the Bohemian Buddha guest bathroom.  A Ross find $9.99  !!  :)

I found this cool little candle holder at a thrift store.  Added some bling. Also for the bathroom!

The dining room chairs!  I decided to go the old wooden chairs and paint each a different color in the color scheme I am doing through out the kitchen, dining room, an living room! The tow round seated chaisr cost a tortal of $12 between the two!  The two bottom chairs were givne to me from my son!  The wood shelf on the burnt orange chair I picked up at the Fairfield Goodwill for $3. The curio shlef is  for the kitchen!! Total paint ....under $12!  I will post a picture of them all with the table once they are completed!  

We picked up this awesome Native Indiaqn prints at the Habitat for Himanity store in  Stockton. We also found a bow and arrow,  peace pipe and the coolest green couch!  All for $75 !!

WISH LIST!!! We found these amazing pieces for the kitchen at an antique store where we are having the Rheem stove worked on and refurbished to propane.   Plus we found a ICE BOX (era 40/50's) We are setting the intention to get all the pieces for under $1000!!   wish wish wish and thank you UNIVERSE!!

Oh...and we bought the French doors.  Coukd not find used with the frame and this is a HUGE issue as we have to secire the property this next weekend.  Bought asll of the dead bolts too!!

Until the next update.... BLESSED AUTUMN!

The Bohemian Cabin Journey

Well yesterday was an amazingly productive day. Except for the horrible sore throat ...it was  fun and fruitful!  Joe sanded the vintage tub down and I started my magical painting game on it!  Iam loving the way it is looking. My goal is to keep it rustic looking...rust and all!  I used some black rustoleum spray paint then danced around that with a sponge dipped in white paint! I also sponged up some of the rust dust and worked it into the wet paint!  Still working on it but can not wait to see it with all the feet on it and flipped over!!!

WE aslo started the clean up on the vintage rheem royal stove.  We tore it apart and we are still getting the built up of grime from decades, off of it's lovely interior and exterior.  Here is the stove dis-membered!   LOL!

I also finished the cast iron patio set.... just need to do some touch up!

I used turquoise sky for the color and white washed with a white base.  The iron was brush stroked with a bronze patina paint by Valspar!  I left a lot of the original patina alone!  This set is going to look awesome in my Bohemian garden that I am creating under the wrap around porch.  This will be an oasis for morning coffee, afternoon tea and meditation space!  whoooo hoooo!   Can not wait to start it....but of course we have more pressing issues once escrow closes ...like refurbishing the well!!!  

The guest bathroom is pretty much together.  We have the toilet, the vanity, the bathtub. I will be buying the flooring here soon.  I am going with the tile that looks like wood flooring!

Found this at Lowe's!

Til my next update....create an inspiring day!! :)

Let the Games begin.....

Happy Sun-day! We afre starting to refurbish some of the lovely recycled reused and reloved items for the cabin!  Today we will work on the vingtage tub and stove and I

will start refurbishing the beautiful cast iron patio set my son found on  a job he was doing!

Stay tuned !!    Before pictures.

The Bohemian Cabin

Okay ...it is time to start a journey and show my BEST green side as a squeaky green goddess! I am officially dubbing this project under DDD -DesireeDharmaDesigns.   Hubby and I are in the process of purchasing a home on 3 acres in the foothills.  It is snuggled in the pines of Volcano Ca.  We are soooo excited!  We put it out to the universe ...and here we are!!  Things are happening!    A total renovation project of this 2 bedroom 2 bath will full basement that is off the grid !  Our goal is to be as green as possible and reuse and recycle whenever and where ever we can!  We are so into this!  I will be posting and blogging as we move through this remodel.  Escrow should be closing at the end of November.  We have already started collecting sinks, lighting, and other materials! We have found some ultimate green hotspots to furnish and remodel our new diggs!!  I have found some real treasures shopping in the cities I work in through out the valley and the east bay.  I will be sharing those finds with you as well.  Last night my son delivered a totally cool patio set  for the Bohemina garden I am designing.  There is an area under the wrap around porch that will be made into a garden/ meditation oasis !!

Here are a few pictures I found that are inline with the design!!