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THE GREAT INDOORS: The house that trash built, Part 2
Two weeks ago, we featured the first half of designer and author of The Painted Home Denise Sabia's house tour. Today, we'll take you through the rest of her home to show you more of her ingenious design ideas.
THE GREAT INDOORS: The house that trash built, Part 2
Reporter Meg Augustin takes you inside some of Philly's most fab dwellings to showcase our city's unique grasp on design and architecture.
Two weeks ago, we featured the first half of designer and author of The Painted Home Denise Sabia’s house tour. Her DIY and trash-finding ways have turned her country house into a chic home fit for dinner parties and kid-friendly living for less. Sabia’s design style and savvy has been described as “hot glue and a ponytail holder” for her MacGyver-esque abilities. Unlike many design bloggers and DIY-ers who may do their own carpentry or electrical work to keep expenses down, Sabia shows how the average homeowner can do simple projects with simple tools for a big impact. Today, we’ll take you through the rest of her home to show you more of her ingenious design ideas.
Guest Room
The guest room features two twin beds that Sabia found and repainted in a charming black. The room’s back wall is covered with old book pages that Sabia attached with wallpaper glue. This cheap and easy wallpaper idea was also used in the hall stairs for a unique and charming backdrop to family photos. The bedside table utilizes an old cabinet where suitcases can function as drawers. The guest room also sports a breakfast tray that Sabia made from old cabinet doors.
Boy’s Room
Sabia went all-out with retro, boyish accoutrements for her son’s room. Old badminton and lacrosse rackets decorate the walls while a burlap-covered corkboard offers a place to hang crayon artwork. Old chicken coop awnings attached above the bedroom’s two windows add architectural detail to the space. The iron-post bed was originally a brass bed that Sabia simply spray painted black. The outcome was a Pottery-Barn-looking piece for the cost of a can of spray paint. The adjoining bathroom was a quick-fix for Sabia. While not a longterm solution, she painted the tiles with oil-based primer and latex paint in order to get the pink tiles to a more neutral cream. Standard bathroom lighting fixtures were dressed up with hot-glued clothesline wrapped around the base.
Girls’ Room
Sabia’s two daughters share a third-floor retreat made for a princess. Two twin beds are dressed up in turquoise chevron and pink floral while a tiny window seat gets a pink-pinstripe skirt. Each girl has their own repainted dressers topped with cake plates used to corral costume jewelry and keepsakes. Sabia purchased inexpensive Ikea sconces and dressed them up with cut-felt monograms. In the corner, a hammock makes for an ideal reading spot next to a louvered door that houses hanging books. Right outside the room, Sabia transformed a hall closet into a study center. A shelf was built to function as a computer desk, burlap covers the under-desk area where a small stool hides, and corkboard squares cover the back for homework reminders and pictures.
Basement
While most people’s basements function as creepy storage and damp laundry facilities, Sabia and her husband created a space that’s more livable. “This is kind of his room,” Denise says of her husband’s den and family room. “I get to do whatever I want with the rest of the house and he can do what he wants down here.” All the same, Denise’s touches are still obvious. The basement steps were lined with found rulers. The easy project adds color and depth to an otherwise ordinary set of stairs. The family room media center gets an antiqued backsplash with wallpapered maps while burlap bags were sewn to fit large ottomans that double as seating. Through the laundry room, a half-bath features another of Sabia’s gutted cabinets with suitcase drawers. The bath is home to Sabia’s next project: turning an antique table and galvanized bucket into a sink.
If you'd like to see your home featured in an upcoming The Great Indoors, email the author at megan.augustin@citypaper.net.
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