Vintage Windows
Vintage Windows

Inspiration Friday: Vintage Windows

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My second post ever on this blog was about how I found some amazing windows at a couple of old barns on some land my dad owns and how I want to fix them up into something awesome:

 

Well that was back in October, and it quickly became too cold to work outside on them in the garage {excuses, excuses!} In the mean time, my grandmother commissioned me to fix some of them up specifically for her! They are in the process of building a new barn and would like a few of these for the interior. I’ve got them cleaned up, I have most of my supplies bought – now I just need to take the plunge and do it! {Which is only slightly intimidating since I technically have no idea what I’m doing, but o well} And so since I intend on getting down to business on these bad boys tomorrow, I thought I’d share some of the inspirations we drew from when working up the plans for these {and some that are just plain awesome!} You’ll have to wait and see what I actually do with them 😛

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So what do you guys think? Any of these ideas rock your socks of?? & are there any other awesome ideas I should know about? O and if anyone has done this before and would like to share some tips with me, that would be great too 🙂
  

Vintage Windows

Lately I’ve been inspired by many of the Vintagy windows I’ve been seing on Pinterest and Etsy, so I wanted some of my own to work on. I tried to find ones on eBay or locally that hadn’t been turned into projects yet, but they were SO expensive!

{A few of the vintage window inspirations}

Erika Erkkila: top left, The Tracy Joan: top right, madebymarcie: bottom left, crazy.cottage.cute.: bottom right

I happened to remember that my dad recently bought some land with some old barns on it & asked if he knew if any old windows were out there… he told me to just go out and look – so look we did! I am thrilled with the find – we ended up with 8 windows total of varying shapes and sizes. With everything we have going on right now it may be a while before I can get to them all, but here’s what I have to work with…

our first finds of the day {Barn 1}
we popped out the outer 2 windows of Barn 2 {the middle one was stuck!}
These babies just barely fit in our car
I found this beautiful door while we were waiting for Wes to load the car
all the windows arranged in our garage