Weekend Adventure #3: Our house.

Boxes are unpacked, furniture is in it's place, and we're starting to feel settled. This weekend we cleaned, organized, and started putting homey touches up. There are plenty of projects I still want to do, but we're getting closer!

Take a look.

Front Room:

This:

To This:

To Finally THIS:

future project, recover rocking chair

We found out that we were allowed to paint! But I am so non-committal when it comes to paint colors. I stress about getting it up and painted then not liking it. Yes, it's paint, it's easy to change or fix. But these days, that $25 for a can of mistake-paint can be put to better use. Plus, with a plan to incorporate more color in accents around the room, I got used to the idea of white walls. So we spiced up the white by using clear gloss paint (usually used to protect faux finishes) to create subtle horizontal stripes.


Alex made these wood valences with a $5 plank of wood from Lowe's, left over stain, and some old nails. Love them almost as much as I love Alex for making them.

I had wanted colorful, printed fabric for our front room curtains, but when Spool proved expensive, and fabric row proved fruitless, I turned to my #1 go-to: Ikea.

A light and soft look with just enough color to tie in colorful frames.

My other #1 go-to...Spray paint! I've been collecting (ok, more like accumulating) frames since the beginning of college. I have a lot. With trusty spray paint I can keep changing their color to fit different rooms or styles.
The latest style: color!

future project, making fabric covers for squares with ugly speakers.

future project, fill gold frame and paint lamp light blue

Dean's Room:

This:

To This:

Future project, rearrange/decorate this thing

Future Project, cover pillows. Already have felt from JoAnn's sale to cover them! Maybe felt pillows sound weird, but I'm really excited about it!

Completed project! Art for Dean!
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Bedroom:

This:

To This:

Future Project, still need to hang pictures and decorate this room

Future Project, organize and make pretty my accessories shelves in the corner

I love the closet doors for their height and handles. They are the same throughout the whole place.

It feels so nice to have gotten so much accomplished in one weekend. Stay tuned for those future projects. Hopefully they won't stay "future" for long!