Projects Around Our House

Hello Everyone!

I am absolutely LOVING this weather we are having as Fall is my favorite season! I love everything about Fall including the weather, pumpkins, desserts, Halloween, Thanksgiving and it is right before the wonderful holiday season!

I thought I would show you a project I had worked on over the summer (early) and FINALLY show the results. I decided to do the board & batten treatment on one wall in our living room and wrap it around to the hallway. Of course I didn't use the board, just the batten part. I was originally going to do both but I don't mind it without the board. I used a collection of frames we have and put random things in them including pictures, paintings, our dog silhouettes and one shadow box which had faux butterflies in it but I recently replaced it with a big Fall leaf. Here it is:

Like I mentioned, I wrapped the batten around the corner and down the hallway.

I will start to show you the many projects I had worked on over the summer in the next week!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!
Jessica

Spring is near!

Hello everyone!

I wanted to give you a sneak peek of all the projects I have been working on around our home! 

Sorry for the bad pictures! I took them with my phone! 

I will hoping be finishing these projects up middle-to-the-end of next week!

Dining Table Switcharoo

Hello Everyone!
When we moved into our home we had inherited my parents round oak pedestal table which I thought WOULD not work for the envision I had for our dining area in our kitchen. Well after buying a "bar height" square table and three years later the original table that my parents had given us was back! My husband told me a few days ago he likes the idea of using the old round table because he never like the bar height table because he didn't like being elevated off the ground while eating?.....yeah I don't get it either. Anyway the cute round table is back and being the crazy person I am I decided that it must come out of the basement last night at around 8 pm at once and since my husband wasn't going to be home until 9:30 pm I was going to do it myself (note to readers, please wait to get help it was heavy!)

So I figured out how to take it apart and piece by piece I carried or lugged it up the stairs. Here it is in pieces.....just ignore the messy kitchen since I had shoved everything to one side and currently had to kitchen tables in the way.

So as I was taking apart our square table my husband came home to find me sitting on the floor with a drill and I think he isn't too surprised anymore when he comes home me in the middle of project :).

I was able to talk my husband in to helping me lift the top of the new/old table back on the pedestal and the switcharoo was done!

We have this long blank wall on the side of kitchen where we will finally put the french door in that will open to the deck (right now it is sitting in the corner of our kitchen)

So I have decided once I get the kitchen back to normal I will tear it apart again by installing some board & batten treatment along that wall and I CANNOT wait!!! Here is what I hope for it to look like:

Source

I got a lovely surprise today from my younger sister! She was in Des Moines a month ago or so at a antique store and bought these fishing/boating tea towels for me! I LOVE THEM! Everyone knows my husband is obsessed with fishing and I am not talkign about laid back, enjoy the afternoon/weather fishing. He is very competivite about it but I am happy that he has a great hobbby that keeps busy on a Saturday so I can get some DIY projects done around the house. Anywho it's not that I don't mind fishing or the outdoors but I don't care for the stuffed fish/animals lodging decor that comes with it so I try to deocorate our home with things we boht like! Here are the towels and I haven't decided what I am goingn to do with them yet since I will not be using them as a towel.

Thanks again Lil' Seester for the awesome gift! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Jessica

What Inspires You?

Hello Everyone!
I am busy working on craft projects around my house but I thought I would take a quick second to ask "What inspires you?". Whether it be a person, a place or do you inspire yourself?

When I have an idea or project in my head that I would like do but I don't know where to get started I look for inspiration from Google.....yes Google. For example recently I have thought about painting our trim throughout our home an off white (Dutch Boy Paint Natural Canvas to be exact) and I simply type this into Google Images and take a look at the pictures that would help me with this project. Or when I am thinking about installing board and batten in our hallway I look at pictures that help get me started. For example here are a few that have inspired for both of these projects!

I love the look of the crisp trim and bold colors but they have also included the look of natural wood in the ceiling, cabinets and mantle too.

 

And for the board and batten treatment in our hallway I have been truly inspired by this living room. The before and afters are amazing and I love how just a little bit of hard work can turn a room from okay to AMAZING!

BEFORE

AFTER

I am serially loving the difference of the after!

Well I better get back to work but thank you for stopping by!

Jessica