Shiplap Dining Room Wall
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Popping in quickly today with an update on my dining room shiplap walls!
Quick recap for anyone tuning in for the first time! I mentioned in a previous post that even though I loved the gray paint on these walls, the lighting in the front of our house where this dining room sits isn't great and this room always looked and felt so dark to me.
{Sweater/Black Jeans/Booties}
Time for a little shiplap to save the day! It's a known cure all. ;)
Here's how it looks now after some fresh white paint! I don't have any progress pics of the paint going up because we were in the hospital with Kole when our painters came. I told my painter the night before that I'd leave a door unlocked for him while I was picking up kids from school and be home soon after he got there. He called me that day at around 5:00 to see if I was coming and I was like "oh my word! Totally forgot about paint! We are in the ER. Just make it look good!"Sometimes your day just take a minor detour!
Luckily our painters are great guys who we know well and trust and they checked on Kole and did an amazing job. So happy with how the paint turned out! Honestly these pictures don't do this room justice. In these pics it just looks like white walls. I know. :) But in person there is so much texture… the thick wide planks add so much to the room. They stand out more than these pics show. Plus it just brightened this space up immensely. I wish I could have you all over to see it in person! We need to have a shiplap soiree. ;)
You can see in this pic that our dining room is to the side of our front entry. I'm going to do some walk throughs of parts of our house on IG stories as soon as I get it all decorated for Christmas! I get a lot of questions about our floorplan so I'm hoping that will give some of you an idea of how our house is laid out.
So my bestie Chuck was back at our house again this afternoon! This is an awful iPhone pic I snapped quick but I wanted to share the progress real time. I was so excited to see these mirror frames go up today! I've had my eye on them for a while. I knew I wanted some sort of a mirror on this wall (again trying to add brightness to this space) and out of lots of options I finally decided on these Aiden Large Wall Mirrors. I kind of laughed because I looked at SO many mirrors from so many different stores (my cute friend Tritia even found some fun options for me!) and of course I ended up choosing the one option from PB. Not intentional! I just can't help myself with that store. Admitting my problem is the first step right?
Talk about a transformation having mirrors on this wall! I'm so excited about them! This mirror actually comes in a panel of six so I bought three of them and had Chuck hang them together. The mirrors are still filthy so better pics of this room decked for the holidays will be coming soon! But I was too excited to show you all the progress to wait. :) I'm keeping everything neutral for now so that I can add Christmas red and green, but after the holidays I'll bring in some color.
I'm getting my table ready for guests (hosting a Christmas pajama party this month!) and I'm going to use this beautiful Euculyptus Berry and Pine Garland I shared earlier for the table.
I also ended up ordering two of the matching wreaths for this room. They just came and are so pretty in person! I'll try to share them on IG stories soon too! I'm trying to be better about getting on stories. I just get so caught up doing all the things that I usually forget to film all the things. :)
Here's a pic of this space last year around this time. Off to a good start but definitely not complete!
{Halloween/Fall Porch}
I recently took down all of our pumpkins. This stage is always so funny to me when my house is 50% Fall and 50% Christmas and 100% mess.
If you are like me and have a lot of pumpkins around your house that you hate to waste I've always loved taking them off the porch and mantel, etc. and using them as a tablescape.
Toss them on your dining table with some leaves and candles and you are ready for Thanksgiving!
Or for just a Fall lunch/dinner with friends.
You can find more details on this tablescape in this Fake it Don't Bake it post I wrote last year. You can also find a quick easy dessert that was obviously faked and not baked. :)
Getting so excited for Thanksgiving! I love spending time at my moms with family and look forward to it for months. My mom and I wait to watch all the good Hallmark Christmas movies together while the guys are watching Football. My mom watches them all first in Oct/Nov and weeds out the cheesy ones and after some back and forth discussion on the phone she records the best picks for us. And I know. ALL Hallmark Christmas movies are cheesy. But some are a little less cheesy and more enjoyable than others and we have our favorites. I might need to make a spreadsheet to share with you all. We take our Hallmark Christmas movie watching marathon pretty seriously.
It's intense.
In fact we take all of our Christmas festivities pretty seriously around here. I woke up to this scene today. Someone was up at the crack of dawn (hello time change!) and got into the Santa hats and stamps to keep himself entertained until everyone else woke up. Made me smile. :)
It also reminded me that while I miss certain things about having little kids.. having older kids who entertain themselves early in the morning instead of waking mom up is pretty awesome.
Almost as awesome as shiplap and new wall mirrors and Hallmark Christmas movies.
Almost.
:)
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