when grosgrain and upholstery tacks get married…

I’ve been wanting to pimp my entry for a while now, especially after I saw this image…

Elle Décor

Then doing my usual morning Pinterest scan I saw this image (thank you Elizabeth)

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Isn’t it lover-ly!!  Well, it was just the kick in the ass I needed…crazy as it is, I had the supplies on hand…

Bam!  It’s not as pretty as the green but I do love it so…

The upholstery tacks I had are small, maybe one day I’ll upgrade to a 1” but for now it’s just fine…

Here’s where I need some help…I didn’t do around the front door because I’m not sure whether to paint it all black, frame and door, or go ahead and do trim and tacks…

thoughts?

she has arrived…

Yippee!!  I have a rug…

Here’s a refresher of the room before…

And now…

Whoop whoop!!

I love it, and it passed the let’s procrastinate moving the furniture back softness test…

What a difference a rug makes…

this room is chugging along…

hello Mr. Fox…

I finally got around to getting the pillows done for the window seat in the man room…

excuse the quality of photos, I’m tired of waiting for the sun to shine…

I had originally had the spotted pillows on the couch but they work better on the window seat, plus I needed three and two were already done…

I love the fox…so dapper!!

I love the quality of the Spoonflower fabrics I ordered, but I will say they took quite a while to get…I’m not sure if this is normal or not but I would take that into consideration when ordering from them…

the little table that could…

So sad when a piece of furniture is cast aside…such potential it has, begging for someone to rescue it before the big trash truck hauls it away to the landfill…

This took A LOT of elbow grease…I’m pretty sure I sanded my fingerprints off and that was after stripping the paint…

As far as I’m concerned, it was worth it…

TA-DA!!

Stripped, stained and lacquered…major styling still needs to happen…

and she got her gold slippers…

So much better than the table I had here before…

manly man room art…

I've finally gotten some things hung on the big ass blank wall in the man room…

before…

work in progress…

The skis were the hubby’s when he was young…he still refers to them lovingly as “Red Lightning”

The photos were taken by yours truly when we went to Texas over the summer, it’s  Palo Alto canyon, second largest to Grand Canyon…

I got the mats cut within an hour at Creative Coldsnow for $4.50 each!! 

And then, the beloved bacon flag from Fab…

Still need to add something above it, hang  my Schnitzelbank fabric on the other side and call it a day…

the little corner…

I realized I haven’t shown you my painted Chippendales…

Before…

And now…

(I’m assuming in my lifetime those cords will be hidden!!)

The table will be replaced with my newly acquired treasure

baby steps… excruciatingly, painfully slow baby steps…hopefully my new rug will make it feel more complete!!

dumpster diving…

Well technically it was a driveway but I don’t think “driveway diving” is a thing…

I had to stop by my friend’s house and on the way home I spied a little table/vanity seat on the end of a driveway…

After a U-turn and double checking the homeowners weren’t looking out their windows I threw it in the trunk…

I will admit this is my first time taking trash off a driveway…and it was a little nerve wracking…

Poor girl has seen better days…I’m thinking of stripping her down and staining with the possibility of some gold slippers…not sure what plan B will be

momma’s new rug…

I finally bit the bullet and bought a rug for the family room…of course I was very sneaky and have yet to tell the hubby…

Thanks to Jenny I got the style of rug I’ve been eyeing for quite some time…

Rugs USA

It’s 7 x 11, which for the price  was a hella of a deal!!  It will ship in 8-10 days so I better start working on my sell to the hubby when it arrives…