In the late 2000s I kept a personal mom blog called Nest Bliss. I reviewed books, wrote about the house and the girls, and was even in the Wall Street Journal. These posts are from then: light, young, a mom in her late twenties. I have edited them to stand on their own.
Project 2 – Re-Purposing Old Vintage Windows Do you love old windows? I do! They have been lots of things for me. For a while they were just regular art on the wall, simply hanging in a row over a sofa. Then two were hinged together, painted black and put in front of a fireplace as a screen. You can sort-of see this in the photo below from my old rental duplex, look at the black corner in front of the fire place. I didn't exactly take lots of photos before Ava was born.
Currently, they are all three hung from the ceiling to create a 'wall' between where my huge white fridge is in the kitchen and where it opens to the dining area . I didn't want to close off the kitchen but putting a wall there and these are the perfect solution.
They are weathered. I was attempting to strip them, because the wood looks great underneath still - even though they are over a Century old.
However, it was too much work and I kind of liked where they were at and the contrast of different colors so up they went. How To There isn't a lot of how to except that I used 's hooks' and 'threaded lag bolt eyelets' to connect them and attach them to the ceiling.
I had to try out a few different size combinations to get a pairing that made the windows hang exactly from the ceiling to the floor with no space between the last window and the floor.
Check out all the projects in this category by clicking here . Another old window project here . Are you doing anything cool with old windows?