Entryway Makeover & A Giveaway!

We withal receive got thus much move left to exercise on our house, but sometimes it simply isn't viable to tackle a large projection yet. In the meantime, I attempt to focus on the piffling things that I tin change, too move towards the large picture.

This weekend, nosotros made a few modest changes inwards our entryway, too I'm thus happy amongst our piffling mini makeover!

It was simply 3 years agone that the lobby was a lamentable piffling house filled amongst outdated woods bring down too an undersized pendant.

Just a calendar month afterwards nosotros moved in, the foremost affair I did was pigment the trim. This was the foremost room I e'er painted, thus I didn't know much. I simply read a few tutorials too dived in. I've since learned how to avoid the mini-dustbowl I created inwards the below picture. I alive too I learn.

After the bring down was lastly painted, I showed off my decorating prowess past times creating this masterpiece inwards the cupboard nook.

As I demonstrated earlier this month, I've made to a greater extent than than my fair portion of decorating mistakes. I had around decent ideas inwards the start (like removing the coat cupboard doors to create a nook), but my execution was a combat lackluster (queue inwards a higher house picture).

I kept working on it though, too eventually the infinite improved a little. I painted an quondam wooden dresser too added around amend accessories.

It stayed similar that for nearly a year, too thus the decor inwards the balance of the solid began changing too the bronze materials began to experience a combat dated.

Let's skip to today.

We've freshened upwards this infinite quite a bit.

About a twelvemonth ago, I painted the nook amongst a lite gray-green color, too I decided to pigment an quondam woods dresser white.

Originally, the dresser had dark handles too nighttime gilt accessories (seen here), but I decided to freshen it upwards a combat past times bringing inwards a argent mirror, aqua drinking glass accessories, too thus I decided to spray pigment the handles amongst around gilt spray paint.

The piffling popular of gilt goes a long agency inwards person, too totally glams upwards this space.

Spray prototype tips tin live flora here.

Now let's utter nearly the flooring province of affairs for a minute.

Source: Houzz

Our electrical flow province of affairs is much to a greater extent than parque/carpet, but the inwards a higher house pic helps provide me amongst inspiration for this space.

New floors volition in all probability acquire a reality sometime inwards the adjacent half dozen months, thus I've been thinking a lot nearly what type of floors nosotros want. Jesse helped me photoshop our lobby amongst a few colors, too I'm going dorsum too forth betwixt actually nighttime too something similar this.

I totally allow out a piffling squeak when he showed me this picture, equally it's thus fun for me to come across what it powerfulness await like. So, I scream upwards I've kinda narrowed downward the color, but I receive got no thought nearly anything else.

I've got half dozen months to torture myself amongst the specifics.

Anyone receive got whatever hardwood tips for me? Like what yous wishing yous would receive got known before yous got your floors? I'd dearest to listen your experience or whatever suggestions yous powerfulness have.

And until then, my electrical flow floors volition enshroud themselves nether my awesome striped rug.

And directly for my favorite update to the entryway!

We lastly got rid of the tiny pendant that I've grown to despise afterwards watching it accumulate bugs for years.

I've spent a lot of fourth dimension looking for a chandelier that would live perfect for this space, too I lastly flora what I was looking for.

I absolutely savage inwards dearest amongst the Piedmont chandelier from National Builder Supply. It's the perfect blend of sleek too elementary I've been searching for. And I scream upwards it looks thus slap-up inwards this space.

Of course, I had my handyman install it for me, per usual.

He's promised to learn me to exercise this on my ain soon, thus that I tin portion it amongst you. He thought nearly instruction me a few things this fourth dimension around, too I basically looked at him similar he was crazy.

Not because I'm non eager to learn, but because this fixture is hung xx feet inwards the air. And my tiny stepladder (also known equally 'This is equally high equally I go.') chop-chop proved that I wasn't the guy for the job.

I receive got my limits.

So, that's where the entryway is today.

Little past times little, we're making progress!

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Thanks thus much for stopping past times today!

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All opinions are mine....

and thus are the decorating bloopers. :)