More "Shabby Chic"..................

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I would be sharing more of my "shabby chic" home decor with you.

The gate you see, here, was obtained at an antique show in Rhinebeck, NY a couple of years ago in the Fall. It called out to me; as if I could hear the squeeking of the gate opening up to a garden cottage. It just cries out "shabby chic"! I added the rose vine to symbolize my vision of the gate being the entry way to a beautiful garden. This gate is on wall in our fourier (gee; I hope I spelled that right) :)

The old-distressed mantle, you see here, is a real find that my husband and I discovered in an old, run-down barn that was owned by a farmer who was offering some things for sale. It was on a ride to Cooperstown that we came across this sale. I fell in love with this mantle, and we got a really great deal on it. We don't have a fireplace, in our home, so we thought it would be cool to hang this up on wall. I added the shutters inside the mantle; I had to paint them to match and distress the wood to give it that beat-up look :) The old posts that you might see, here, on each side of the mantle on floor, are ones I obtained off of Ebay! They match perfectly and the child's chair came from a little flea/market place in Saugerties, NY.

Like I've shared, part of the fun of this scavenging stuff, is to have pieces come together from different places :)

I wish you all a great weekend ahead! Anyone happen to know what happened to spring? :)

Love, Marilyn