Home Tour: Entry & Front Room

Holler!
Welcome to all the new visitors.
I’m tickled that you’re here.
Please creep around and say hello.

For those of you who aren’t regulars, today marks the one year anniversary of moving into our house: Green Meadow Manor.  In honor of 365 days of survival in the house, I am going to let you snoop around and look in my drawers.

I know you just saw the front room when the Mexican furniture arrived, but we are going to revisit.  Only because it makes sense to start a home tour in the first room of the house.  Don’t be mad/bored.  I swear the home tour is just warming up.  There are some big surprises for you in the near future.

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Can you believe the Salvation Army didn’t want to keep those er-mer-gerd-tarstic courches?  They left them (and the dining set, and bedroom set) to us as a house-warming gift.  How “thoughtful.”

We painted the next day.

Then, our furniture sucked hard.

So I sold it all and lived a “simplified” life.  I was so frustrated, the front room had no option other than to be ignored.  It had abandonment issues for quite some time.  It’s just now getting over it.

I was finally able to pay some attention to the front room.

The wall leading down the stairs is big and blah.  Definitely crying out for love.  I’m thinking a gallery wall of engineer print sized photos would look good.  But… I don’t think I want black & white, so it might. be a penny more.

I realize that I should have removed the H-ween swag before photographing this room.  But it’s too late now.

Pretty okay for progress.  The run down:

Done:
-Paint
-Furniture

To Do:
-Repaint (less “blue”) the walls
-Paint the mantle
-Remove half wall
-NEW FLOORING!
-Switch out the light fixture above stairs
-Gallery wall

Thanks for walking through the front door into the home tour.  I’ll run and get you something to drink, and when I come back, we’ll move to the next room.  Cheers!

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