at this moment, i'm on top o' the world. i've finally finished the stairway project, got half of a big customer's project done today, and my fantastic husband made tacos for dinner. alrighty, stairway!! you saw in the last post that we had nothin' there and it was totally blank. i've been scouring thrift and antique stores, ebay, etsy, wherever i could find an interesting piece to add to the collection.
my idea was to use lots of different mirrors, frames, and sconces in a collection, and paint them all one color, to unify them as a single decor element. i chose yellow because the design was so risky (since it's not just me living here, and it's really
i did something a little different with the frames too, there are photos in a couple of them, but since we don't have kids and we don't have a lot of great display-worthy b&w photos of friends and fam, i used art, fabric, books, text, and even a map! i think (hope) it makes for a super interesting display that makes you wanna walk up the stairs to see what else is up there. anyway, here it is.
i'd never used an attachment like this for spray painting before but i'm tellin ya, if you are painting a lot, this little baby is necessary. right next to the spray paint @ walmart |
i like krylon or rustoleum. this stuff wasn't fantastic on every piece i had for this project, but it mostly did the job. |
AFTER! tah-dah! |
dictionary page from a set of dictionaries i have from 1948. variations of the word 'love' |
photo of our view from the bed and breakfast room on the wine trip we took for our 1 year anniversary. goooooooood memories |
awesome intaglio print done by an old classmate of mine from college. i L-O-V-E her prints, she is on the path to being a printer as we speak. |
sweet candle holders and sconces! so fancy. |
cute little mirror i found on etsy. it was white when i got it |
i got an old mother goose book, i mean OLD. it's got a few offensive poems in it at this point lol. |
found these gems on ebay. super cute |
another article out of a 1936 Household Magazine. i'd like to eventually find a historically significant newspaper headline to use in this frame, it's square and a headline would look great in it. |
wedding invitation looks great in a yellow frame! |
love this fabric. it was a clearanced tablecloth at target! |
one of my prints, it looks great in this bubble-glass frame |
a map of our area. this one is so tiny but i think when you're looking at a large area on a map inside the small frame, it's a good visual contrast |
screen prints of mine, big one is on fabric, little one is paper. the big one will probably be temporary until i find something more worthy of a big frame right at eye level. |
view from the living room, this was a great way to keep track of the angle we were hanging everything at. |
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