IN THE MASTER BEDROOM, Blair used a peel-andstick wallpaper to create a faux brick wall. The white “brick” contrasts nicely with some holiday wreaths and greenery.
In the guest bedroom is a set of hand-painted matching twin beds. Blair says she had been searching for over six months before she found them on an EBTH.com auction. “It’s pretty easy to fi nd an antique twin bed frame, but fi nding a matching pair is a whole other story,” she says. At the end of the auction, a disappointed Blair was outbid, but just a month later the set somehow popped back up for auction. “I won both beds for $100 and picked them up the next week,” she says.
Her favorite picking fi nd, however, is a small church pew that sits in front of a window in her home. “I told my husband I wanted a church pew,” Blair says. “Everyone had them, and they look so good in people’s entryways.” Everything she found was either too expensive or too large for her home, but one day, rummaging around her father-in-law’s house for antiques, she noticed a small door she had never seen before. “I pulled the door open and was met with a ton of spiderwebs, dust and dirt,” she says. But there, buried under a rug and a plastic covering, was a baby church pew. “It means so much more because it was given to my husband’s family by the local church when they renovated in the 1950s,” she says.