Lite Rock 95.9 The Upper Cumberland's Home Of Lite Rock
If you’ve been following along on my antiquing adventures then you know 2 things about me:
1) That I spend a fair amount of time at estate sales.
2) That I’m all about a serious bargain.
Enter this perfectly distressed, cane-backed French Provincial headboard that I recently found in an Oak Ridge, TN garage for… wait for it… just 10 bucks! I couldn’t believe the estate sellers had priced it SO low — especially considering how hot French antiques are right now. I vaulted over a pile of old lumber, pulled off the price tag and hot-footed it straight to the check-out table to pay before anyone else could lay claim.
Once I placed it in my guest room, I remembered one small detail about older headboards — they’re short. Often much, much shorter than modern headboards. So short, in fact, that the pillows dwarf my new French beauty:
The good news is that this is a very easy fix. I could have raised the headboard by placing it on wood blocks but that’s unstable and, with any shifting of the bed, would cause the headboard to bang against the wall, damaging the paint. So, I decided to rely on …read more
Source: HGTV Designs
