Planning Perfection and Kitchen Bling

My blogging friend Joan noticed my Vintage Depression Glass Cabinet Pulls
when I posted about my canning jar light pendants last week.
She wondered where I had purchased them,
and if they were in fact,
Vintage...
 

I promised her I would reveal my secrets about the handles this week...
so Joan..
this one is for you!
 

 

These pretty gems are actually called Glass Bridge Drawer Pulls; the color is Green Depression Glass and they have Nickle Bolts with Flush Connectors.
I love the Flush Connectors.
They give the inside cabinet door a finished look rather than having a bolt sticking out an inch with a nut screwed down against the cabinet door.

 

I painted the inside of the cabinets behind the glass doors the Feldspar green color...

Are they Vintage?

 

About 7 years ago, at an estate auction, I purchased a "box lot" for $5.  The box lot was full of old and somewhat rusty kitchen gadgets. 
At the bottom of the box, wrapped in an old dish towel, I found
6-Green Depression Glass Bridge Pulls, circa 1940. 
They were the color of old Coke bottles
and I instantly fell in love with them.
 

and the old style wavy glass in the doors is new, but was as close to the old vintage wavy glass as I could find... but much less fragile...

Those glass pulls, "found" 7-years ago, were the thing that my entire kitchen plan evolved from. 
Green is my favorite color... and I love cottage style... so went my planning for the perfect kitchen... but it takes time,
and my old brown and harvest gold 1970's kitchen had a long way to go...
 so did finding the additional pretty glass pulls that I would need.
 

this photo makes the pulls look lime green... all the pulls are the same Coke bottle green..
it's just the camera flash playing tricks on the bling!

I am a Polish farmers wife and thus... a frugal wife.  Yes, I could have gone out and bought the rest of the 32 pulls that I needed... you can find them new from $7 to $20 each on the internet... though they're not quite as heavy or substantial as the vintage ones...
but that would have cost somewhere between $200 and $600. 
Since I'd basically paid less than $1 each for the first 6-pulls...
I went on the hunt...
It took me almost 5-years... (I'm also a patient woman)...
and I ended up spending less than $100 total for all 32-pulls. 

I found an additional 20-pulls in a close-out bin at Restoration Hardware Outlet Store in San Marcos, Texas, marked down to $2.99 each.  (I ended up with 2 sales people digging through every bin with me to locate the 20 they had!)

Then I found 6-more Vintage pulls on eBay for $24 plus $6 shipping.
 

 

So, as I was planning my perfect kitchen renovation, I was looking for pretty kitchen bling... and I found it at the bottom of a box... wrapped in an old dish towel... forgotten... Funny how things often come to you that way.

and so...

some are Vintage and some are not...

you can hardly tell which is which...

 

these pretty corbels from the Curious Boys in Seguin, Texas

Next up... paint and architectural detail, inspiration provided by

Sarah's Summer House renovation...

and here's a hint....

pretty, vintage, painted perfect blue...

 

PS... in case you've been wondering...

my upper cabinets are painted Pot of Cream white and the bottom cabinets are painted Feldspar green; both colors by Behr at Home Depot.

 

this week I'm linking to

Mod Mix Monday...

Knick of Time Tuesday...

Vintage Thingie Thursday...
Vintage Inspiration Friday...