Time Flies!

Forgive me DeluxeVille readers for I have sinned, it's been about 5 months since my last confession! Not to worry, life is well and things have been extremely busy around these parts.  I spent the last several months readying my house for the real estate market and finally got it listed in May.  I was under contract 8 short days later and I will be having settlement in July!  I am super excited to be letting go and moving on from my little place that I've had for almost 15 years.  Once again DeluxeVille is moving on and this time permanently!  Thank you universe for your blessing this time!

So I guess the question y'all are asking is... where will DeluxeVille be moving onto?  Well after much talk with my fella, we have decided that DeluxVille will be opening up shop in the 1957 Liberty mobile home!  If you scroll down, you will see the post I did on painting the outside of the trailer.

Lots of landscaping has been going on around here.  We took the big diseased Maple tree down in front of the trailer last Fall and needed to do some planting come Spring.  With the help of my favorite plant parking lot sale, we were able to gather and plant quite a bit of different perennials.  

Since we haven't even began the renovation of the inside of DeluxeVille yet, we've been spending some of the dog days of Summer lounging on the front porch.  Our pup Sampson gives it two paws up and wants everyone to know anyone can come sit with him as long as you give good scratches!



If you remember back many years ago, you will know, I had experimented with having a booth space in an antique mall.  It was a lot of fun and a lot of work to try to make my rent every month!  I've been thinking about getting back into the vintage selling game again for quite sometime but just couldn't seem to justify the cost of renting another booth space.  After much talk with the fella, we've come to the decision that the perfect place to have a little vintage shop with almost zero overhead would be in the vintage 1957 Liberty trailer that's on the property.  After all, we were planning on renovating it anyway for our own use, why not just make it a home business instead of a guest house?





I won't even begin to tell you about the amount of work that will need to be done inside.  It's been sitting vacant since the mid eighties and for the last six years my fella has been using it as storage.  It's not in awful shape by any means but we will need to replace flooring and fix some walls.  There is still tons of original 1957 charm in there!  Now that the work has been done and my house has been sold, this little gem will be where I'll be spending my evenings for awhile.



Now y'all know what I'll be doing until next time!
~MaryDeluxe

Something to Crow About

So the other week I spied this awesome vintage sign coming up for sale at an auction!  OMG!!! It was just what I was looking for to complete my chicken coop.

How amazing is that sign I thought!  I must drive my butt off to this auction and buy this fricken cool ass sign.  So I loaded up my truck with my side kicks and off we went for a road trip to buy a sign!

Woof! Not amused.

But buy a sign we did!  It was such a large sign, the fella had to build a special wooden frame for moving it.  Have you figured out yet that my guy likes building things??  And I just happen to be really good at making a list of things that need to be built.  Can I just say we high five each other a lot!

Can this sign be any more perfect for my rusty salvaged chicken coop? I think not.  We hung this up and high fived each other as we stood back and looked at it.



I'm one very pleased chicken rancher! My chickens on the other hand could care less about the design of their humble abode.  No high fives from them.



Of course this whole picture is currently covered in about 5 inches of snow.  Hurry up Spring!

Fill free to high five me in the comments!
~MaryDeluxe

Craigslist Finds For A Mid-Century Bathroom Remodel

Like a little squirrel getting ready for Winter, I've been spending the last year or so, scouring Craigslist for mid-century goodies. I have discovered that house flippers are my favorite people and I'm always happy when they try to salvage and sell off or give away the old house items they no longer feel are fashionable. Though I personally hate when cool old houses are updated to a more "modern" state for resale purposes, I'm always happy to try to get my hands on these discarded items!

We were tipped off about this mid-century Cadillac of bathroom vanities by one of our friends who was perusing the free stuff section of Craigslist.  Did you say free?  Yup!  And believe me when I say, I was on it like white on rice.

It has two original pink Kohler sinks and the original boomerang laminate is still in really nice condition.  As you can see this was a custom built piece and came out of a mid-century ranch home built in 1955.  The rest of the original pink bathroom fixtures were still in the house, this vanity was removed upon advice given by the realtor to help sell the property.  The vanity was stored in the garage and the new home owners just wanted it gone and knew that someone might see value in it.  We were happy to come and take it off their hands!  

Even the interior shelves and door have the boomerang laminate!

My favorite is the built in hamper in the center of the vanity that tilts out.  Not very big but still does the job!

This Satin Glide mirror, light and shelf set was another victim of a house flip.  I gladly scooped this up for $50.  It was however missing it's matching vanity.  I'm on the look out for a second one!

I knew I really wanted my master bathroom to have his and her sinks and these two 1957 American Standard Dresslyn sinks were exactly what I had in mind at the time.  When I originally saw the post and responded to it, I was to late and was told they were gone.  A few weeks later I was contacted out of the blue by the poster who said they were left behind and if I wanted them, I could come get them.  Trust me, I still wanted them!  This poster was also flipping a house and they were kind enough to allow me to do some dumpster diving in their dumpster, in which I found the matching pink toilet!

We also picked up this cute little 1949 Frigidaire stove from the same person.  We brought it home, cleaned it up and stuck it in our kitchen in the cottage apartment.  Works great and goes really well with the already existing metal kitchen cabinets.

It's probably going to be awhile yet till We get to the bungalow house renovations and I'll get to put everything into place.  Our next renovation on the agenda is the 1957 Liberty Mobile Home!  Have you found anything good on Craigslist lately?

~MaryDeluxe