Movin' on Up

So I've changed my mind. It happens a lot. I've decided that the Family Wall I talked about previously in Hallway...well because its easy is going to go up the stairs. (I'll do an update on that for my new & improved plan soon.)

I might make this feature on one wall, maybe on both. I'm still undecided on that point but this will be a long term project as we need a family first. I don't really want an homage to Tim & Jenny heading up the wall and I'm thinking that there aren't a lot of people who would. Maybe my mom, but probably not, ha!

Anywho, back to the real world. Above is a picture of our stairs. There isn't too much you can say about them but there are 2 things beyond the Family Wall(s) that I want to update on these.

Things we have left to do here:

1. Replace the carpet with wooden stairs - When we built the house we couldn't afford to pay for the nice risers as well and to be honest I wondered if it was really worth all of the money. After my repeated struggles in trying to vacuum those bad boys I have decided that they really are worth it and oh so much more. Its become Tim's chore for 2 reasons, for some reason he likes to vacuum and he is much more coordinated and doesn't get the cord all wrapped around him and almost fall down the stairs multiple times. I mean not that anything like that has happened to me or anything. 

2. Replace the sconces -  Don't get me wrong, I think these are great and I'm completely happy with them. I just have one problem, I saw some sconces that I have a huge crush on. Its not that I love the others any less, I'm just completely and utterly infatuated with the new guys. I haven't done a search to try to find out who carries these but I'm hoping that someone has them in an oil-rubbed bronze with some fabulous natural linen shades. 

3. Create a family wall - As I said at the beginning of the post, the stairs are robbing this idea from the hallway, sorry guy. But this time with a spin. I want to find some pretty old keys, get some pictures of some of our ancestors and have a plate framed that Tim's grandmother gave to us just before we were married. I believe it was her grandmother's and came with her from Sweden (although I could be completely mistaken and just have made all of that up - I do know that it has something to do with Sweden, is from one of Tim's grandmother's ancestors and it means a lot to us). I also want to get some of my Gigi's (my great-grandma) handkerchiefs framed and hang them up there. I guess I could put up a picture or two of Tim & I and of course I have to a a silhouette of our sweet furry little friend. Hmm, looks like I may actually have more for this project than I thought I did originally...

Hallway...well because its easy

As you can tell from my not so creative post title I'm taking the easy way out tonight...our entry hallway. I just figured out that for some reason the posts for the last 2 days didn't go up in their entirety so I've spent the night recreating those but my goal for these first few weeks of blogging was to stick with it every night M-F until I've reviewed all the rooms of our home and we get started on the good stuff...the projects. That leaves me at 11:30 at night, after a long workday and 30 minutes to get a blog posted and myself into bed, this will be a short one.

SO...here we go, not much to it, its a hallway. Long, narrow, moves you in a coordinated fashion from one point to another and that's about it for the description. I mean what else can you say about the thing?

Below is a reference picture:

Basically we have an upgraded shotgun house, you can open the front & back doors and get a clear shot straight on through. Other than that it has the same issues as the entry, its all neutral.

Things we have left to do here:


1. The one, the only -  I want to create a "family wall" somewhere in the house. I haven't decided if this is the place I want to do it or if I want to have it going up the stairs. This situation seems a lot easier to get under control rather than having to work on the placement along with getting everything working its way up stairs. Regardless I came to this conclusion after seeing this entry on the blog House*Tweaking (bear with me this is my first blog linking). I loved Dana's family wall project and plan to do one of my own...somewhere...someday...

Well thats it for today, like I said it's short and I'm off to bed with 17 minutes left until midnight...doesn't get much better (actually a 10PM bedtime would've been nice!).