Foyer Makeover

It's actually not a full makeover, I still have a few things I want to do, but I want to show it to you anyway. As I have already said in a previous post, we bought our house new a year and a half ago. We were not necessarily looking for a new home, but when we saw this one it had almost every thing we were looking for. A contract had just fallen through and the builder was ready to get rid of it, we had to act fast because another couple had placed an offer as well.

With all that said I love our house, however there are some things that I didn't and don't love. One of those being pretty much all the light fixtures in the house and the wall color. Unlike the fixtures which I do hate, I don't hate the wall color but it's really colorless, if that's a word. I believe it's referred to as builders beige and in such a large home it was blah.

They foyer is pretty big. I think it's very nice, but could have been smaller, however I suppose because of the layout of the house it had to be this big because there is a bedroom on the other side of one of it's wall and a dining room we turned into a family room on the other.

This is the foyer in May 2008 a month or so before we moved in. Sorry about the darkness of the picture.

 The ceiling and the oh so lovely light fixtures. These nasty brass light fixtures are all over the house. Nice huh!

Here's a before picture of the table before I painted the walls.

 After

The new light fixtures look so good. They were my 13th anniversary gift. I couldn't think of anything that I wanted more. How romantic right!

I love the new look, but still have plans for it. I am going to move the large picture over the table to the side of the wall where the tin star is and get some sort of mirror for above the table. Probably add some other type of wall art as well. Of course, once that's done I will be sure to take more pictures. I hate to paint but love the results.

Christmas Letter Craft

My intentions have been update this site more regulary, however, as you can tell that has not happened. Life has gotten me all busy and stuff so I do what I can when I can and that's not been a whole lot lately. Here it is the day before Christmas Eve and I'm just now posting about this craft that I did at the beginning of December. Oh well, if you like it maybe you can get the materials during the after Christmas sales and make your own version next year.

I went to hobby lobby and got these paper mache letters. I think they were 2.99 each.

I had some white craft paint, so I painted the sides of the letters with that.

I then went to the scrapbook paper area and spent way too much time looking through all the papers. I selected my paper and used my letters to trace on the back side of the paper.

I did not make the tracing dotted, that's just how the picture turned out.

My paper was 59 cents each and I bought 6 sheets for the fronts of the letters only since the backs of mine would be hidden. You most certainly can do both sides though.

 I then cut out my letters, got out my Mod Podge and glued the paper to the letters.

 

Here's the end result.

Nester Holiday Tour 2009

Man have I been busy! We've had sick kiddos, sewer issues, I been painting and a whole slew of other things going on.

I'm back now and I'm ready to show you my holiday decor.

I would love to go all out for the holidays and decorate every square inch of my home, but several things prevent me from doing so. First, I have two three year old's who still want to touch everything. Second, it cost money and I know you can get super cheap, cute stuff at the dollar store, but that takes time which I don't really have because I have two three year old's. So until they are older I do the minimum, that makes me happy and that makes them happy.

So welcome to my home, come in and enjoy!

The front door, with my too short and slightly uneven garland. Next year I hope to get a longer garland and two light up trees or topiary for the front porch.

Just inside the door in the foyer or entryway, is this table.This room is also the room I painted last week. More on that in a later post.

 Just to the left of the front door is our family room. I'll also be showing you this room in a later post, it used to be a dining room. This is where out Christmas tree is.

I like that while sitting on the couch you can see the reflection of the tree in the glass doors.

At the end of the foyer is the living room. The fireplace book shelves have been a work in progress for as long as we have lived here, which is a little over a year. I didn't do much in the shelves this year, but I did dress up the mantel a little.

I did have the stalkings hanging down lower and I will move them there again probably on Christmas Eve. I didn't want the stalking hangers to fall on my kids heads, they are heavy and sharp, also we can't light the fire if they are lower.

To the right in the living room is the hallway to the boys' bedrooms.

This is Son#2's tree.

Here is Son #1's tree.

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