I will admit that I like to make a good first impression. I like a perfect outfit, fabulous hair and a darn good ice-breaker.
You would never guess that from my foyer, though.
Upon first impression my foyer would let you in on a little secret. The only place where I'm all put together? You guessed it. Online.
So I'm making a real effort to get our house together. It's ridiculous. You'd think we'd have this whole "moving" thing down already. I mean...we do it every 2 years so what's the big deal, right? So, this time I am devoting a good chunk of my time to getting this house looking the way I want it to. I am really taking a close look at each room and listening to what it wants to say.
The foyer?
It says, "Let me do all zee ard work for you. Let me wow zem. Let zem love me."
Oui, the foyer is French. ;)
Yesterday while waiting for 1.2 gigs of our next Songbird kit to upload I tackled the hallway. I started and Colin jumped right in when he got home. We didn't stop til midnight (well, that's because we decided to do the stairwell and upstairs landing as well) and then we got up this morning, packed the kiddos off to school and I immediately started the second coat. I've missed a few spots, but it's coming together nicely. I'm paused now because we ran out of paint.
And this is the nook by the front door.
We took the house in an un-renovated condition so it's up to us to get it into shape. The walls in the foyer were a creamy beigey yellow and it gave the whole place a dingy look. I used to hate white walls but now I find them refreshing. I left this back wall of the nook unpainted because it's going to get slapped in the face with something fun...and orange.
And where the floor is taped off in the top photo? That's where I'm putting this baby.
It's the Besta bench from Ikea. I love that it has a slight sheen to it. We'll be re-purposing some artwork from around the house and we'll finally be incorporating my lovely coat hooks from anthropologie.
It looks all clean and spiffy right now but that's only because I've moved everything from the foyer into the living room.
Nice, huh?
I should probably get back to work...
