remodeling this life

I like to move things around in my house. I think the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to makeover a room is to simply rearrange furniture. My entryway has undergone many changes in the past 2 years since the space has been remodeled. I think I focus on it so much because it’s part of our living room, so I end up looking at it. A lot. It has looked like this:

Eek. I look at that from a year ago and think yuck! It hasn’t looked like that for a while. That shelf is has been in the kitchen for a while.

I replaced it with a dresser for a long time and then the entry looked like this, zoomed in. Sorry, I am so bad about getting photos before I change things around:

The shelf at the entryway looked like this:

The shelf was free. Hubby got it on the curb one day and I think it was the color and the beaded board backing that made him know my heart would pitter-patter when he brought it inside. He’s a keeper if he’ll stop and get something on the curb that he knows I’ll love.

On with the transformation. I moved the dresser out and it now lives in the dining room as a buffet and I keep all my tablecloths and such in the dresser drawers. It just feels right in there, so back it went and it really works much better there. I moved it and the wall at the entryway sat empty for a while. I liked the reddish color of the shelf because it matched my roman shades in the living room. But I am planning to move those and use them in our new master bedroom, so my wheels started churning about the soon to be out of place shelf in the wrong color. I have also found myself wanting to lighten things up a bit around here, so I decided to paint it white. Plain, simple, don’t have to worry about matching.

I wanted to add some more orange to the room, to pull from the floor and my favorite striped chair. So, I made some more DIY wall art for above the shelf. The orange and turquoise is a nice complement to the furniture in the living room, that you can see in this living room makeover.

Under the shelf, I added what I think is supposed to be a chest for a bedroom, but, well, I am not all that well known for using furniture as it is intended. I like it as a bench, so it’s being a bench. Until I change my mind again. I snagged it at goodwill for $14. Storage and seating in one! I consider it a thrifty victory. Yes, I could’ve painted the bench, chest, thingamajig. But I didn’t. I think it looks fine as is. Besides, it took me 3 weeks to paint the shelf. Yes, really. This project would be done by Labor day maybe if I had decided to paint that as well.

Total makeover for $15. $14 for the “bench”. 50 cents for the scrapbook paper and 50 cents for the canvas that I got at a yard sale. Free shelf and some photos that I printed here at home and put in frames I already had. Plus a shell from the beach. It feels lighter and cozier. Until I change my mind again.

I am linking this post up to The Inspired Room’s Beautiful Life Party and Hooked On Houses Hooked On Fridays party. I am also adding this to Kimba’s DIY Party

This post was published yesterday. I tried to edit it this morning and instead I deleted it. Oops! Why I should not be allowed to do anything before drinking coffee!!