DIY Ideas and Projects

It's been almost 2 years since we bought and moved into our home. Slowly we've added little touches to each room to make it more complete. We've also hung pictures, taken them down and changed our minds about a thousand times - in each room. Ok, maybe not that much but it still seems like there are several rooms in our home that are unfinished or not how we'd like them to be. I've been browsing through Pinterest like crazy trying to find the perfect DIY projects and decorating ideas to pull our house together. I guess you could say we are going for the "Farmhouse" look. 

Here's a couple of the next projects I'd like to start (and finish :o)

To hang at the bottom of our stairs

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A corner unit for our dining room

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To hang behind our small couch - but, of course, with a 'D' and in green instead of teal

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By the front door - I'll be attempting to make my own

found on Etsy

Propped in the corner of our living room next to the TV or hung on the wall between the basement and garage doors (I'll be making this sometime this week(end)

Behind our small couch in the living room (maybe in a rustic brown color or green)

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For the living room

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So if anyone has or knows of someone who has some antique ladders, antique porch rails, vintage/antique wooden window frames let me know :o) ha ha. I'll be on the hunt for these items.

Home Enhancements

I've been spending a lot of time inside our house lately and it's starting to show. I've been working on some 'home enhancement' projects. I love our house. I really do. But it hasn't felt like it has a personal touch to it. So I decided to change that.

I browsed Pinterest (so thankful for it sometimes!) trying to find some cheap DIY projects I could do and gathered some decorating ideas because I fell into a rut (decoratively speaking). I am itching so bad for it to be Spring that I've been wanting to add pops of color everywhere I can. Everything outside is brown and lifeless and a lot of what's inside our home is brown - floors, cabinets, wall color, furniture. I saw brown everywhere I went. Short of painting I knew there were only a few things I could to help my issue.

I stumbled across this website and fell in love with the way she decorated her kitchen. I loved how simple and easy she made it look. I've always wanted to decorate the tops of our kitchen cabinets and I finally had the inspiration to do it. First, I gathered things I knew would work that I already had laying around our house.  It's still a work in progress but it's finally coming together.

Carrie and Paul gave us this picture a while ago but I never had anywhere to hang it. I might add some Bull Dog wine bottles to it.

This plate used to hang by our back sliding glass door but it got bumped a few too many times for me to be comfortable with it hanging there. This plate was a gift to me and it has a very  personal and special meaning. I love it and every time I see it it warms my heart. 

I picked up a few of these little plants. I thought they were too cute and would add just enough color to my windowsill.

I still felt like I needed a little more color so I tossed some yellow pears into my Sangria Jug. 

As you can see there's a few more finishing touches to make but I'm happy to finally see it all coming together. 

Above the left cabinet I want to add an old serving tray. 

Carrie and I went shopping and I found this one at Joann's and I may go back and get it. 

Other than the small decorating that's left I am going to make a mock-Roman shade for the kitchen. I found a great tutorial on making no-sew Roman shades and I think I will try that first. I just need to find the fabric I want to use and that's turning out to be the hard part. I did find shower curtain that might look good though. Not your normal fabric but anything would work. The woman who did the tutorial used a table cloth from Target. Some people are so creative! If it were circles instead of stripes I probably would have gotten it.

I'm also on the hunt for a decorative pillow for the bench in our entryway. It needs a pop of color and seeing that when I walk into the house would just make me happy :o) I haven't found a pillow that just said "that's the one! I NEED that!". I did find this fabric at Joann's and if I had a sewing machine I would have bought it and made my own pillow! This fabric makes me happy.

I've loved add all these touches to our home. And I really love that it hasn't cost us a lot of money and we've been able to use a bunch of stuff we already have.