Vanity Affair

I am so enamored with vanity tables.  The January 2014 issue of Romantic Homes magazine is devoted to vanity tables.  When I was a teenager I had one in my bedroom and used it every morning to apply my makeup.  I still have that table.  It is a fairly cheap one that I probably bought at a discount store, but it can be painted and dressed up to look really nice or shabby chic or whatever I want.  It also has some pieces of wood in the front that some fabric can be tacked to, to make it look even better.  Maybe with some shabby chic type fabric.  It looked very similar to this one:

I also have a table top swivel type mirror that is an antique that came from my mom and dad's house.  I *also* have my mother's vanity table and bench that she had in her apartment.  When she was alive, she sat at that table every day to apply her makeup.  As far back as I can remember, she always had a vanity table in her bedroom that she used to apply her makeup and comb her hair.

I don't know how I got away from doing that.  When I married and moved in with my husband in his mobile home, there just wasn't room for a table and bench like that.  I never had one again after my teenage years.  Now, we have a really big bedroom and there would be some room for that small table in our bedroom.  If I use it I plan to paint it white and use some pretty fabric on it.  But, when we redo our guest bedroom, I plan to put my mother's in there and I'm going to use it.

I love the idea of using vanity tables.  There is something glamourous about it.  It reminds me of movie stars in their dressing rooms and bedrooms in movies combing their hair and putting on their makeup.  I think it's one of those things that just makes a woman feel really special to take the time to put her face on, comb her hair and put jewelry on.

Here are just a few vanity tables from old Hollywood movies.