----> My House: Entryway Revamp

Looks like we're going to be getting a little personal here.

This is the entryway of my house: a small little wall adjacent to the stairs that generally looks something like this:

BORING.

I love holiday months because then I get to cram as much holiday decor goodness on my little table as I can, but every other month I was starting to get a little bored.

This is when I started rummaging through my stash.  I have a small room in our basement that we call "the craft room" but should more accurately be called

"the black hole where everything gets thrown that I don't want to deal with room".

Let's be real.  That's what it is.

Like when I told my husband right after we got married that I wanted a sewing machine...I think he was excited that I was getting domestic so he went and bought me one.

It ended up in the black hole for probably a year before I actually used it.

I have good intentions.

And then life happens.

Right?

I have stashes in that room of old decor - things I've gotten bored with and lots and lots of frames. 

Oh, the amount of frames...and many still with old pictures in them.

There was a frame with a picture of my little brother when he was probably 6 months old (he's NINE now) and when I took the back off there was another picture behind him.

It was Dan.  The hunk I wanted to marry during my college days who later dumped me while he was on his mission.  So awesome.

I'm glad my husband was home when I found this so I could formally introduce them.

Wow, tangent.

Here are a few of the things I rounded up:

Metal tray: $1.50 from DI

Oval frame: $.75 from DI

The rest of the stuff I had:  mirrors, frames, keys, ceramic birds, vase.

I laid everything out and started priming.  There's something so satisfying about spraying things completely white.  I don't know what it is - but I went to town.  I wanted to brighten up the entryway and make it colorful and fun.

 

If you are at all familiar with Pinterest you know that there is never a shortage of inspiration on that site. 

(if you aren't familiar with it come out of your cave and join the party!)

It's unbelievable the amount of things you can find that get your creativeness sparked.
Two things I'm loving right now are 1) CORAL and 2) gallery walls. 
The wall I'm working with isn't very big, but a gallery is what I want!

After priming, I sprayed everything with Krylon gloss white and instead of pictures, I added patterened scrapbook paper to the frames. 
I went to Hobby Lobby and found some that had the colors I wanted and I ended up with these:

Here is my new entryway:

flowers: Hobby Lobby

teal glass bottles: Hobby Lobby

smelly fragrance reeds that appear in the 1st three pictures and not the last one: Hobby Lobby

(they were needed more in the mudroom :)

{click HERE for the "i love us" print}
I thought the keys would stick to the glass of the frame with a hot glue gun but I was dead wrong.  They popped right off so I used Gorilla Glue Epoxy.
That stuff could make a bowling ball stick to glass.

This was such a fun project and got me in the mood to spray everything CORAL and WHITE!
For the table I used Krylon's Coral Isle - which they don't sell in stores around here...BUT, Mandi over Vintage Revivals (who I looooooooove and who introduced the blog world to this color) spilled the beans that if you have a Sherwin Williams store nearby they can special order any Krylon color for you.  So that's what I did and although it took like two weeks to get - it was worth the wait!