Welcome y'all: inspiration

The entry of this house is in desperate need of some personality!

It's so important to make a good first impression when welcoming someone into your home. 

I have always loves stripes. They just bring such a boldness to a space and I can't wait to stripe our entry area.

Just like in these pictures the stripes will need to lead up into the hallway upstairs

All this inspiration.... I am seeing lots and lots of frog tape in my near future!

Evolution of a Hallway

While we have lived in our home this poor hallway has had some sort of an identity crisis.

After we moved out last summer, then moved back in we decided to rehang some of our favorite light fixtures. 

One was the globe light from Pottery Barn.

After asking probably, oh.... 100 people their thoughts on stripes I Finally took the bull by the horns and did it!!

Naturally all the other walls will also be painted Revere Pewter by Ben Moore.

I wanted this hallway to have some classic touches with a fun fresh feel. 

Here is to hoping this is the last time I have to do anything in this hallway.

ps. after painting this piece with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint I discovered I did it totally wrong and will likely be re painting it. 

The work is never done. 

Gallery Wall

I had every intention of sharing this with y'all while we were out of town...

Well, I had the weirdest thing happen to my memory card... on the back of the card little tiny pieces of plastic float the actual card, they broke off.... so I could take pics but not upload them until I got home to my cord. Weird... I know!

So, back to my procrastination.... we finished this wall... oh... January, then filled all the pics by ohhh March so here is to my MUCH over due showing of the gallery wall up the stairs.

As you can see, at the top of the landing is where our little built in book case is I shared with yall a few weeks back.

close up of the pictures

And, back down the stairs. 

We are headed back to school today!

Time to go pack lunches.