So, I hear Home Depot is back-ordered on the beadboard wallpaper? That is hilarious! Did ya’ll really order that much?! Dang, what if I need another roll? I can’t wait to see your projects and I am thinkin’ a Mr. Linky Beadboard Wallpaper party might be in order. Please tell me when you finish a project and let’s get them all together, OK?!
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Do ya’ll have any idea how exciting it is for me to get emails from all of you, telling me how much I’ve inspired you to get out and yardsale or do a paint project? Well, it is totally thrilling for me to read those letters. I get quite a few emails each week expressing gratitude for my blog and the things I share on here, encouraging all of you to try something new. That’s really what got me motivated to share all of these things on my blog. Because really, I’m just an ordinary housewife who loves decorating and doing projects and I figure if I can do it, so can YOU! And many of you are getting out of your comfort zones and giving it a shot and that just totally makes my day to hear that.
So, recently when I got this email from Victoria in Ontario, Canada (hello up there in Canada!), I was so happy to read her story of how I (just an ordinary wife down here in AL) had inspired her to not only go yardsaling (YAY for that), BUT to also try a paint project for the first time.
I’ll let you read the email from Victoria, it was great and I’m so glad she shared her story with me and graciously agreed to let me share it with ALL of you too.
(Victoria’s inspiration pic from Sarah Richardson)
Dear Rhoda,
You don’t know me, but I feel as though I must extend my thanks to you.
I have been following your blog for a while now and have been really enjoying your projects. You inspired me to take on my own decorating project.
I bought these chairs at a yard sale. (You inspired me to do this also – I am not an early riser so just getting out of bed early on my day off is an accomplishment!) I wasn’t looking for chairs but I instantly fell in love with their lines and saw their potential right away. I bought them. 7 well constructed and gently used chairs for $25!! In reading ‘Style at Home,’ a Canadian decorating magazine, the cottage of a prominent local designer, Sarah Richardson was featured and right away I knew I wanted that colour palette for my cottage (after struggling for years with what decorating direction to take). I went onto her website and after some searching I found the paint chip that she used for some chairs that she had painted for her cottage dining room. I knew my chairs would look great.
Sooo………I have NEVER painted before – EVER! That is why I got married!! (just kidding). Anyhow, after seeing your many amazing projects and transformations I found the courage to give it a try.
I sanded the chairs down, arranged to borrow a friend’s paint sprayer (which I was really intimidated to use – but in reality was quite easy) and got busy. I’m thrilled with the results!
Rhoda, thank you for your great blog. Because of YOU – (YES YOU) and a little bit of courage (okay and elbow grease!) on my part I’ve encountered success and feel like I can tackle anything.
With fondness,
Victoria
BEFORE: Victoria’s bargain chairs…did you catch the price? $25 for all 7?? Now THAT is amazing, a steal of a deal. Victoria, for a new yardsaler, you hit this one out of the park.
And AFTER. Gorgeous!
Don’t they look great? Victoria, you did an outstanding job and you should pat yourself on the back. Now, next time you’ll be on the hunt for some furniture to rehab and will know that you can tackle anything. I just had to share this inspiring email with all of you and this is just to say, emails like this are why I keep on doing this blog!
So, keep doing those projects out there and feel free to share your successes with me too.
If you’d like to see the old historic homes in my hometown of Marietta, GA, click over to Susan’s blog for a beautiful post on it all. Ahhh, I just love the Marietta square and how it’s been preserved, along with these older and stately homes. Susan did a great job taking pics and showing it off, so please take a look. This is where I was raised.
What a great find! And fantastic price.
Rhoda — These chairs and the beadboard wallpaper are great projects, as always. And you know, you not only inspire to be creative but you inspire to just roll-up sleeves and get to work. I'd been putting off a major wallpaper-stripping project to prep for painters to come in but I finally started it yesterday. When I'm up to my elbows in wallpaper scrappings and gummy yucky dissolver solution, I think of all the other women working on home projects to create something beautiful instead of, "I could be shopping right now!"
Thanks again Rhoda for inspiring us all! Your furniture re-dos and your current tutorial about the beadboard wallpaper is wonderful!
Hey, I also live in Ontario (Ajax) and would love to meet Victoria! Nice to know there are other like-minded gals out there who enjoy the bloggy world and expecially your site! If Victoria lives anywhere near Ajax/Whitby,..please contact me through this site!
Thanks again Rhoda! Keep up the great inspiring work!
Hugs,
Cheryl
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Wow, Victoria, the chairs are
great and what an awesome find.
They look better than the ones
in the inspiration pics.
Rhoda, you inspire alot of us
out here. Love the beadboard
wallpaper and get around to trying
that one of these days, to many
othe projects going right now.
Thanks for all you do.
Hi Rhoda! I didn't know you are from Marietta! My hubby and I are from there, too, and now living in Birmingham. How funny. We love the Square, too. Such a great area.
This is so funny because I feel like I should thank you too! I can't even remember how I found your blog but I'm hooked and I, too, have started yardsale-ing. I've always know I had the creative bone but have always stopped short thinking "I can't afford some to do this". Until you (and a number of other chickies just like you). I'm finally turning our house into the home I've always pictured myself living in thanks to the inspiration from the likes of you :). I'm thinking my mommyblog will be taking a turn to a beforeandafterblog. haha! So thank you, thank you, thank you! I surely don't have to tell you what it does for me to live in a home I love that I'VE created!
xoxo
lil mama 🙂
p.s your readers should try ebay for the wallpaper! i found some there!
Fantastic results! I love the detail on the back of those chairs. What a steal!
Thank you for being an inspiration.
*Tricia
What a great find and love what she did to them!
How exciting for both of you!! Oh I want to go to a yard sale so bad. I have no idea why I am so intimidated!! I have just got to find a friend to go with me, I need to go to a yard sale. I am missing out.
I really love her chairs too. She did an excellent job. You are always very inspiring.
Jenn
Rhoda,
Thanks for sharing that sweet email with us and how you've inspired yet another one of your loyal bloggy readers! You know how I love your taste and all your neat projects which have inspired me as well. Thanks bunches for sharing your love of junking, repurposing, and decorating with us all!
Nancy
Dear Rhoda, You have inspired many of us. We all love your blog! I knew I should have bought stock in that beadboard wallpaper! Darn! HA HA HA Nancy from OHIO
Such great finds, love the new color. Beautifully done. Hugs, Marty
You are a very sweet mentor to many of us that come and go without telling you thanks. I read on another blog that you helped someone with easier blogging with Windows Live Writer. Would you share that with me or direct me to the information? Blogging and adding pictures is tedious and time consuming when the net is slow. Thanks for your many inspirations!
wow, those chairs look great! They look like they came from Pottery barn or somewhere like that after the paint. Your blog IS very inspiring, thanks for sharing all your ideas.
I love those chairs! Victoria did amazing!
I am ordering the beadboard paper too! I am going to put it beneath the chair rail in my dining room! I can't wait!!
Thanks Rhoda!
Lou Cinda 🙂
It must feel good to know that you are inspiring people! 🙂 I know you think you're "just an AL housewife," but you do a lot with stuff that many people might pass by, and your creativity keeps us coming back for more! 🙂
Wow, Rhoda. What a gracious note she sent you. You really are such an inspiration to us all. I love all your projects. I think that your beautiful personality has alot to do with it too. You certainly know how to explain it to us in words we can all understand. I love what she did with the chairs. Love the color!
Blessings,
Sandra
Rhoda ~ Thanks for sharing Victoria's email and pictures! She got, not only a great deal, but did a fantastic job painting those chairs. Seeing you and others tackle these projects is inspiring to others – we can do it too!
Victoria's chairs turned out great. It is always so much fun to see what you do, Rhoda, and very cool to see what you inspire.