Shutter Shelf

So after I redid our  tv cabinet seen here.. I decided that for such a large room and tall ceiling that we  really need something hanging above the tv and tv cabinet. It honestly looked too "naked" for my taste.

I had seen bunches of different shelves in catalogs, online and in stores, but never found anything that really fit the shabby, country, cottage feel I had going for our little home. So I decide that we would take an idea I found on Pinterest for a shutter shelf and put our own spin on it. 

I found 2 large wooden shutters at the Habit for Humanity store for $15 dollars. We then hunted down and bought a set of 2 pretty decorative brackets for  $5. I spray painted them a gold brown color that is almost the same color in the curtain rods, hardware on the tv cabinet and in the curtains. The hard part was figuring out what color I was going to do the shelf itself. I knew that we didn't need to paint anything else that blue, green sea foam color. So I decided to take inspiration from our vases we got at Kirklands. I just  took a color out of the vase and had Lowes make me up a pint. After I painted the shutters I aged them some with our sander, and rubbed it down with  a little left over stain I had from the tv cabinet. Jarod did all the hanging and cutting for this fun project. Thanks Honey! 

                                                          

I am still deciding what to actually put on the shutter shelf. So this really isn't the final look.

Yard Work

I love our yard. It is not a big yard at all and you would probably laugh if you saw it.  But I  remember when we lived in our apartment for 3 years and how each year I wished we had a little yard to spend time together working in and making it our own. The Lord blessed us this year and now we are enjoying working in our little yard each night together. 

This week is pretty much yard week around here. We have been working on it every night this week. We finally have the front finish and yesterday we picked up the supplies for part of the back we will be working on tonight. 

The white block is our house number. I blocked it out for privacy.

 I saw the red and white polka dot cushions and knew they would be easy for me to find things to match.  The red and white polka dot flower pot was actually a regular clay flower pot that I had bought and painted. The yellow flower pots have gerber daisies in them but birds have built a nest in each so it is kind of killing the gerbers. :(

                              I got the wreath from a near by pottery. I was going to make one pretty much like the one I found, but the price was alot better already made versus me having to by all the supplies to make it myself. I did add the "W" to the wreath. I just painted it and hot glued it on the wreath.

Living Room

I have been working on our living room. It's kinda hard for me to really decorate the apartment the way I want it when I can't paint the walls, add the curtains I want  and the dining room and living room are in the same room, but for now I am making it work. We did make a pretty big purchase for the room which is the new rug we got from Target! I love it! The colors in the rug work so well with the rest of the decor in the room. I did decide that the room need a little pop of color so I painted my hope chest a rusty red color and distress it some.

Decorating Our Home

I love interior design! I get so much joy in making our home look pretty and a place that we feel comfortable and able to relax in..  I find most of our stuff at Target, Home Goods, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and flea markets.. I usually try to put a picture together on how I want it to look using Polyvore. Then I go around to stores and try to create the same look for a lower price.. I won't ever do it all at one time.. I just like buying things here or there. When I am purchasing something for our home I have to really fall in love with and it has to be at a good price. I want to really start working on our living room and guest bed room. Our living room looks alright right now, but since we have been married I really haven't done that much too it.  Here is the Polyvore page I have been working on for our living room. We already  have the the standard furniture for it, I just want to add the color and more ascents to the room.

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