Tall Entryway Design Concept

The entry to our home has this super high

wall which often feels like it deserves more

attention than it's been getting.

The potential is amazing!

Since I've been implementing the design

for this entry room, which you

can see here, my mind has been

looking at this wall and thinking,

"What would work to make this "us"

and "functional", while making

the perfect impact?" :-)

Btw...I sold the bench. The hubby thought

it was just a few inches too long.

I don't mind though. :-)

I just build another one, right?

So...here is what I designed for this space.

I'm SO excited!!!

Ok, so let me give a little explanation....

I.love.chevron.

While I feel the trend will stick for awhile,

I'm not convinced on putting money into

more expensive items like a rugs, drapes, etc.

The perfect solution to me is to paint a chevron

pattern on this gargantuon wall.

It will be affordable and easy to change

down the road.

Next, I'd love to frame maps of places

that my husband and I specifically have

traveled to . I'm not one to put up a

piece of art "just because".

I really want it to be significant

or meaningful in some sort of way.

We always try to keep a global perspective

in life, and I feel this would make

a statement about things that matter

to our family.

I'd love to place a long, skinny black console

table in this space, with some greenery

and a nice tray of some kind to catch little "extras".

Incorporate some awesome Pottery Barn

double hooks, lamps, baskets,

and an entry rug to finish everything off

and you have yourself a complete look.

I can't wait to implement this next!

What do you think?

I'd love to know!

Hope your day is great!

~Anneke~

The Entry Bench

I'd like to say, first of all, a big THANK YOU to the so many of you who comment, e.mail me, facebook, etc. throughout the week. It really is quite encouraging to know you are not writing to yourself, and I want you to know that I do appreciate it very much and am so thankful to have amazing readers! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I got quite caught up in my 3-in-1 posts last week, and since then have been so busy that I didn't get my final "finished" piece of furniture, The Bench, written up and posted for you to see. I am seriously in love with how it turned out!

See our crazy TALL entry wall...oh, it's soooo bare, I know.

Slowly, but surely - it will come to life!

The bench fits perfectly!

This is actually where I stage most of my pieces of furniture,

but if I didn't, I would probably build benches

with locker style pieces along the back. :-)

This is basically 3 benches in 1 modified

from Ana White's Spa Bench plan found here.

Now I'm just on the lookout to fill the shelves with wicker

or seagrass baskets for shoes. The whole "get your shoes

on in the garage" thing is definitely not working out.

As for some finishing info.-

 I used wood conditioner,

1 base coat of Minwax Dark Walnut,

1 top coat of Minwax Jacobean,

2 coats of wipe on semi-gloss poly on the base, and

4 coats of the same on the top board.

Let me know if you have any other

questions about the piece!

In the meantime, I'm working on

this

this

this

and this

Any questions or interest, please contact me.

Have a great day!

~Anneke~

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Well. Now that I'm back and officially done with all of the laundry and cleaning, we ended up doing a little bit of rearranging between our living rooms. Unfortunately with rough times and our other house not selling we needed some extra money for property tax. Boo. Keeping it real on this end. :-( 

Anyway, we decided to go ahead with selling our nice leather sectional since it's been on my mind lately to open up our family room.

We started with this

Oh...that angled wall.... :-/

Sold the couch for what we bought it for two years ago

off of Craigslist. :-)

And now have this

You may remember me talking about selling

our other couch from our reading room here.

So with that in mind, we used our couches for 2 years,

sold them and made $400,

and bought the couch above for $100.

I'm feeling pretty good about that -

even though I have to use the cash for property taxes

and not for funner things.

It brings out the creativity, right???

As for the family room, we kept these Barcaloungers

SO COMFY!!! They just take up A LOT of space!

It's not "done", but what do you think initially?

I love having a rug there, which we didn't before,

and I love how open it feels.

We're planning to put move the tv to the wall,

add a media center, etc.

On another note, I somehow got around to building this today!

It's like CRAZY long!!!  Almost 95" for our entryway wall.

I'm planning to stain it a dark walnut or jacobean

and paint the boxes black or something.

They are from a toy box set!

Be on the look out for the finished picture. :-)

I hope you are having a great week!

~Anneke~

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