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Hi there, snowflakes! Have you decked your halls? Not quite yet?! Well you've come to the right place! Style mutts, meet So Vintage Chic! This small business based in Seattle is owned and operated by a stay at home Momma with a passion for combining cozy with chic! Kendra's handmade linen pillows are absolutely adorable and her collection extensive!

Though our own Christmas decorating has barely begun, we couldn't wait to share these goodies with you!

Moose Buffalo Plaid

Buffalo Plaid Christmas Tree

So here's the deal, we managed to hack Kendra's Etsy shop for a discount code. JUST KIDDING! Kendra is as gracious as she is talented and she is gifting all of us style mutts with a 20% off code good for an entire week starting RIGHT NOW!

That's right, friends! Use code, STYLEMUTTHOME at checkout to get 20% off your entire purchase at So Vintage Chic until Wednesday, December 9! We'd tell you to hurry over but we highly suggest getting comfy first - you'll want to take your time in this sweet shop. :) Tell Kendra we say 'Hi' while you're there!

Happy 'oohing' and 'ahhing'!

Gail's Custom (faux) Cowhide Stools

Hey there! Dropping by for a quick before and after of a pair of stools I recently finished up for a client! Remember this handsome pair?

Probably not. Cate and I spotted these across the street when my neighbors were having a yard sale this Summer and thought of a couple ways to reuse the seats in this post.

When a very dear client, Gail, came by to pick up another piece for her new home, she spotted these stools and did some imagining of her own! She noticed Cate's cowhide bench in our Garage Shop, and found an inspirational image of a pair of stools with cowhide seats and chrome bases.

After swapping a few ideas on fabric and style, this was my finished product for her:

The cheapest option for finding round wooden discs to use as seats ended up being a pair of basic run-of-the-mill pine stools from Walmart and removing the seats. After attaching them to the metal stool bases I covered the wooden seats with 2" foam, batting, and finally, the fabric, (found at Fabric Bravo). They're quite comfortable, especially for doing sophisticated things like cleaning your eye glasses. ;)

I don't have a bar or island in my own home so it sure was fun to create this pair of beauties for someone who can use them!

Thank you for stopping by! Now go be your awesome self.

Flip-Off: Cate's MCM Restoration

I'm driving down a country road and I'm hopelessly lost.  Typical.  But after reviewing google maps at quaint old-fashioned gas station, I'm on my way again practically chomping at the bit to see this craigslist find in person.  My GPS tells me to turn down a street that's not even paved - just gravel.  This is the moment where the banjo's from Deliverance start playing in my head.  Could some savvy psycho be luring me to my death with mid-century-modern furniture?  I'd have to hand it to them if so - MCM at a steal is the perfect bait.  I should really fear for my life more... but pieces are solid walnut...   By now I'm turning off the gravel road onto a gravel driveway.  It swoops around a shed and up a hill only to dead-end at the most adorable cottage with a charming garden.  I am greeted by kind smiles from the homeowners who have lined the chest quadruplets on their garden wall just for me - it feels like a homecoming parade.  

Clearly I didn't need to have my husband on speed-dial in my pocket for this craigslist interaction.  Turns out Donna and her husband couldn't have been more welcoming or accommodating.  We start talking while they helped me load up all four beauties and it became obvious that we were kindred spirits.  Not only do they have a Younglife background like Caleb's family but they have a daughter who's a fellow home decor enthusiast and is also married to a Special Ed teacher/ coach.  Uncanny.  

I'm convinced that stumbling across this ad was a divine arrangement.  And as Chelsea explained in yesterday's post, we had big joint plans for these babies.  So what do you get when two sisters-in-law take identical pairs of furniture pieces to flip in total secrecy from each other?

Furniture-In-Laws!

[Or just two creative sets of furniture relatives]

So let's take a closer look at my restorative approach to the flip-off:

Driving over to pick them up, I had every drastic transformation idea rolling through my head.  But once I saw them in person at Donna's house, I fell in love.  I just wanted them to see them returned to their former glory.

For starters, they need gold double-breasted-button-like hardware.  It just so happened that I had some I could harvest from the "white monster" and all I had to do was deepen the original yellowy/brassy finish with our favorite faux gold technique.  I also debated doing an angled tapered leg like Chelsea did but had four straight mounting brackets already lying around.  So convenience won out all around.

And of course I couldn't wait to grab Chelsea's Axel Co. reclaimed wood hexagon shelf to style with.  

Other than the hardware and legs, all I really needed to do was restore the glassy finish [I applied a coat of minwax polyshades in pecan with a foam brush].  Ugh look at that juicy wood grain shine!!

As we are in the throws of moving, and I'm scrambling to furbish our new 800 sq.ft. apartment with functional pieces, these dapper gentlemen are now flanking our bed for some much needed extra storage.  I'm still unpacking so more photos will be coming soon once the sea of cardboard subsides.  

And don't forget to stop by tomorrow to get more deets from Chelsea on her show-stopping two-tone flip!