I have mentioned before that we have put NOTHING on the walls in our house since we moved in last October. For a while I was okay with that, but then after taking down the Christmas decorations at the end of the year the house looked kinda barren. It needed a little something to go with the cream walls, white trim and beige furniture. Besides just the two robins egg blue walls in the dining room.
I am not much of a decorator and I don't really have a style. Jay and I agreed on everything when we built the house, like the windows, trim, door pulls, etc, but when it came to colors and walls decorations we needed some time to compromise. We also had a strict self imposed budget to adhere to for each month so this meant taking baby steps and tackling one small project at a time. I am really pleased with the direction we are taking downstairs. We have decided to let blue and yellow be prominent throughout the open floor plan with some grey accents.
Here is what we have been up to the past 2 weeks of summer break with our house projects. We had a $75 budget for the month of June to spend on house decorating and we stuck to it really well.
Dining Room
Buffet table: Hand-me down from family
Mirror: Was silver in the old house and we spray painted it yellow. Cost of spray paint $4.
Hurricane Vases: Wedding Present
Decorative shells: Marshall's $6
Table Runner: Target $17 (used a gift card)
Pictures frames: Mine from college that we spray painted with paint from another project.
Total cost to us: $10
Living Room
Artwork: Bought in Gatlinburg on our last vacation pre-kids in 2009.
Framed wedding invitation: Wedding gift
Framed engagement picture: Frame from a wedding gift and picture we had.
Book stand: Had from the old house. No clue where it is from.
Brown frame: Micheal's $6
Willow Tree figurine: Gift from friends at Trey's birth
Lamps: Bought with gift cards after our wedding
Lamp shades: Target $17 a piece
Total cost to us: $40
Kitchen
Chalkboard Project
Artwork from Salvation Army: $2 (Seriously!!)
Primer: $4 from Lowes
Red Spray Paint: $4 from Lowes
2 cans of Chalkboard Spray Paint: $10 from Lowes
Total Cost: $20 Great deal considering most smaller ones go for about $60 on Etsy.
We also bought this fabric to make curtains for the living room and dining room downstairs. We purchased it 60% off per yard with an additional 15% off the total purchase so I don't think we could have gotten a better deal.
We still have some more projects we are working on and hope to finish up in the next few weeks. I will keep you updated with more pictures when we finish!
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