Midcentury Modern Sofa and...new business cards

Oh me oh my...you just never know what treasures you'll find when you look at online auctions..

Recently I spotted this sofa on one that we frequently check and no one was bidding.  So I did-- thinking it would go pretty cheap, and it would be a great first piece to reupholster.  I have been wanting something this style for awhile now but most of them are already "redone" and way out of our price range.

Here she is in the bed of the truck when we brought her home...

But the photos online weren't that great.  And at the end someone started bidding against me.  What!?!?!?  Which extends the auction by 5 minutes.  So it was going alot higher than I anticipated but in my mind I had already redone it and--I can admit it--  I was emotionally attached.  After 3 extensions on the time I finally won my sofa...only I was worried I was going to be sorry how much I'd spent....$140.  But when we picked her up...

I was thrilled--she is in incredible shape! 

It has these cast metal legs---one of which was broken (in the back) so I used the same legs I used on the shelf I turned into an entertainment center.  They're about $4 apiece at Lowe's.

And I gotta admit I am really digging the leopard print on this sofa :) now I'm taking my time picking out what fabric I'm going to buy to make a slipcover....I just can't reupholster it...

And my orange pillow cushions don't look half bad on there either...

This sofa is awesome.  Whoever it belonged to probably rarely used it...the cushions are like new...

So I rented the steamer from Lowe's and cleaned it GOOD.  

And our carpets are shockingly clean now...

This little folding metal table came from the same auction site, and you can see the replacement legs in the back of the sofa in this photo too...

She's got personality to spare...

I'm pretty sure I have a paint color picked out for the walls...I've been looking at it for about a week now making sure it's what I really want.  That's coming soon too and long overdue...

On a different note my multi-talented husband whipped up this label design and we had some printed up on business cards...

They came today!

  We've been wanting something simple to "tag" our things with...so this is what he came up with.  What can I say...the man has great taste!!!

Auction Finds

My husband and I have so much fun shopping flea markets and going to auctions together...this is our first time actually purchasing at an auction and it was an interesting one.

This mirror is for ME; actually it goes perfectly with our bedroom furniture and we had one of those little, cheapy plastic mirrors propped in our closet forever.  Total cost here $1 :)  I bought another mirror for $1 (you can see the back of it in the photo below).  It's destined for our hallway bathroom.

This fan was sitting off to the side.  The auction was pretty small and so was the crowd.  It was also on a Thursday evening.  So they'd said if there was something you were interested in to ask and they'd push it to the front.  We were ready to leave and I was pretty interested...no one else bid on it.

How great is this typewriter?!!?!?  It's a 1922 Remington. We've looked them up on line and if you can find the right buyer they go pretty high.  We were excited to get it!  I REALLY wanna keep this one.  I gotta think about it for awhile and decide what I want to do.

This is a time card holder!  Would be great as a bill organizer or to hold Christmas cards at the Holidays....lots of possibilities....

This chair is so great.  If we didn't already have a desk/office chair I'd be wanting to keep it too!  It's so solid....

And here's the bookcase all finished up and sitting in the store waiting to go home with a lucky girl to store some shoes :) I'm going to do another post on it later in the week to show the before and afters.  Busy, busy and having fun finding things...the best part is you know they'd probably end up in the trash and you're "saving" them and giving them a whole new life!