Last week my daughter, Liana and I paid a FUN visit to the Bachman's Spring Ideas House in Minneapolis, Minnesota! You may have heard about this on some other blogs, too~ Bachman's is a very well known gardening, landscaping, and home decor company in the Twin Cities. Ki Nassauer, of Flea Market Style, Junk Revolution, and Junk Bonanza,along with many talented artisans recently developed a whole line of vintage junk creations, antiques, and decor that are prominently featured in the stores. On the flagship store property is a house built in the 1920's which served as a Bachman family home until 2001. Now it is being used as a wonderful ideas house, which will be redecorated four times a year. The Ideas House Coordinator is Angie Grande, Ki Nassauer is the Vintage Consultant, and Larry Pfarr is the Visual Director- they were aided by many others in putting this all together. For those of you who are not able to visit, I'll share photos and ideas from this fabulous house all this week! Today I'll start with the sun porch, entryway, and dining room. Hope you enjoy it!
The planters were beautiful, of course...
The sun porch was very welcoming with a great day bed and vintage quilt pillows...
Fun ceiling decorations...
In the entryway, this wonderful birdbath planter...
and a fun coat rack with c-clamp hooks!
The dining room was full of spring ideas- I realized I was so focused on them, that I didn't get an overall photo...oh well, the ideas are great! Look at this great wall of teacup shadow boxes...
Directly under the shadow boxes was a great glass topped table over fun bedspring candleholders...
The tin top table was dressed with lots of milk glass, vintage fabric, mismatched china...
look at these fun junk place card holders- they are made from cistern cups filled with grass...
I love this vintage plant holder re-purposed to hold cupcakes- so cute!
I love how they dressed the window- wire wrapped the rod and dropped crystals- so pretty in the sunlight!
Two built in china cabinets flanked the window- they hung pieces on the back cabinet walls for a fun look!
Tomorrow, I'll share the fun kitchen...
Until next time...
Linda
What a fantastic place to visit! You took some great pictures too Linda....I really love the twigs hanging from the ceiling with the mini lanterns, really cool!!~
ReplyDeleteWow....what a wonderful venue to be able to visit! Full to the brim of creative junk ideas!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing it!
xojanis
What a place. The cupcake wheel is darling. One funny thing is the C-clamp cook hooks my Dad used to have a display like that in his garage for tool bags, rags, extension cords etc.
ReplyDeleteHow fun!!! You must of come away with a ton of unique ideas!!
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I love home tours and those tea cups in the shadow boxes is such a cute idea. I noticed they are mirrored in the back. Look forward to more of this tour.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to be able to go get those wonderful ideas in person. Can't wait to see the rest. Mimi
ReplyDeleteOH, wow! you got to go there personally? Way cool.
ReplyDeleteYou got some great pictures.
I can't wait to see the kitchen, bath, and....ALL OF IT!
glad you're posting these shots.
So many great ideas Linda, I don't know where to start! I guess with the outside - perfection!! Love the flower box in the upstairs window!
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Kim
Oh wow, what FUN!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of that, I hope it's an idea that spreads across the country. :-)
Have a wonderful Tuesday!
Anne
Hi Linda, What a fun place for you and your daughter to go!! Lots of fun ideas and great photos--thanks for sharing and I can't wait to see the rest!! Julie
ReplyDeleteOh. My. What beautiful things to see and photograph!!
ReplyDeleteYou and your daughter must have had a blast!!!
xoxo
lynn
Just hopped on over to your Blog from JunkinJulie's... LoVe Your Blog Wallpaper!*!*! AND your pics with "branches & lanterns" inspired me... Thanks Linda! Jeanine, ChiPPy!-SHaBBy!
ReplyDeleteThat house is beautiful! I hope to have a house with a porch like that one day! I also love the windows, the windows in my home are just ordinary. :)
ReplyDeleteY'all must have had such a grand time touring this house. So much whimsy, so many great inspirational ideas! Not even sure I have a favorite...love it all. Thanks for sharing. ~ Angela
ReplyDeleteI have loved your tour of the bachman house. Thank you so much for doing this as I was unable to attend.
ReplyDeleteSo many fab ideas on ways to use old junk...err I mean treasures!
Thanks,
Natalie
I thought I was going to get to go see the Bachman house but I needed to stay home in case our new grandbaby arrived! So I am so glad you took lots of pictures! Great ideas already and it is only the porch! Can't wait to see more.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of the tea cups in the shadow boxes. I can't seem to find a good shadow box. Where did you get them?
ReplyDeleteYou can try the "contact us" button at bachmans.com They may be able to source them for you!
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