My recent project is...

My new TV wall!  I never liked my TV wall before.  I just kind of threw something up there to fill the space.  I never even took a close up of it for this blog... not that I can remember anyway.  Heres the best I found:

But that wall (in my mind anyway) has always called for something more substantial. And well.... until we can afford a huge faux built-in entertainment center, I needed something to keep me happy in the mean time.  I had always been inspired by this picture on Pinterest:

Que, a visit to Target.  I found several frames that were being clearanced out.  I bought them all. However it wasn't enough.  Thankfully my Mom lives near several Targets and found the rest I needed and even cheaper than my clearance price!  So my project ended up being half the price I thought I'd end up spending. 

I thought about explaining how I did the measuring but I wont get into all that.  If you want to copy the look I just suggest drawing it out on paper because that helped a lot.  So here is the finished product!  I haven't yet put in our pictures but I plan to make them all black and white.  

 You'll also see in this picture the new curtains I wrote about quite awhile ago.... also from Target.  (Yes I love Target)
I'd like to add a chair or maybe 2 chairs flanking the tv. maybe with a floor lamp just to kind of break up things a bit and fill those spaces.  But for now I'm at least much happier than I was before!

Family Room

I hate posting rooms before I'm even close to finishing them but I need to get over that.  So here is our downstairs family room.  It's kind of a big multi purpose hang out room.  I have many many many more plans for the room.  I just hung the shelves tonight and only threw some stuff up on them as a temporary thing.  I have a small shelf to add still to that area but need to buy new anchors for it.  Ok on to the pics.... before, progress and more progress...

The previous owners had holes, screws and nails all over the walls so we had a lot of patching to do.  The carpet was naaasty but a deep cleaning made every difference, night and day.  I could now list all the plans we have for this room but the list would go on forever.  So I'll just leave it at that. =)

Sneak Peek: Family Room

I put together my new end table last night. I got a great deal on it and am really pleased with it.
Anyway, this is a picture of our downstairs family room. We still have lots more to do in there so for now you're just getting a sneak peek. =)



Pardon the poor quality pic. It was taken with my phone and is a little dark. But they are nesting tables if you cant tell.