Saturday, November 24, 2012

Stairway Revival

          
  
One of my most recent projects has been to update the stairway that leads from the garage to the kitchen and to the basement. When we first moved in it was a violent shade of sea green from ceiling to trim. Not only was it an unsettling color, but it kind of made the basement seem that much more creepy. 


Finally, I had enough and decided to do something about it. I decided to continue the color from the kitchen to the stairway to unify the space and picked out some striped fabric for the curtains. After many, many coats of paint the green was covered and it was time to sew the curtains! Its been a while since I had gotten out my sewing machine and was a little nervous at first. Thank goodness it was a fairly straight forward project!


I think they turned out pretty well! As luck would have it, I found an old picture stashed away with the things we still had packed in boxes and it matched almost perfectly. 


Here is the end result. I think overall it looks much more welcoming. I'm just so glad that the sea green is gone! What do you think?

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Christmas Decorating


It's been quite a while since I've posted. With the craziness of our wedding as well as moving into the Little Ranch House, I haven't had much time to post. I think its time to pick up where I left off! Its almost that time of year, when all of the stores and radio stations overflow with Christmas music and you can't help but get in the holiday spirit. Getting a little over excited about our first Christmas in our new home I decorated early this year. 



Here are a few of my favorite ornaments. Every year Aaron gives me a new ornament from this artsy little shop downtown to add to my collection. I love the glitter and splash of darker color on his feet! 


You might have noticed almost all of our holiday decorations are silver and gold. I started out with this theme years ago and have kept up with the tradition since then. I'm trying to find new ways to incorporate things that we already have into center pieces or repurpose things to round out the decorations in our living room. Hopefully I can come up with some good ideas over the next few weeks in time for the actual holiday!