luxe chandelier

Apparently I have an issue with the walls. I’m scared to hang anything up that I’m not sure about. I keep waiting until the spark comes…whenever that is. Once you put screws in the wall, there’s a HOLE in your wall. It was fine for me putting holes in my old bedroom at home, college dorm (oh… filling the holes with soap worked! shhh!) and apartments….. except for our house. You see… this is OUR HOUSE!

I also have a tendency of changing my mind too much. I know it drives my family and Tyler nuts. Believe me… I drive myself nuts sometimes too. Being indecisive is not fun to deal with when being a new homeowner.

I got the curtains I wanted from West Elm for Christmas. I love how airy it looks during the day when the sun is beaming in through.

I got a sconce for Christmas and it took me weeks to decide where to put it up! I couldn’t even watch Tyler put a hole in the wall and hang it up. It’s like your kid getting a shot at the doctor’s office.

People can stop hinting that our walls are bare. We are very aware our walls are boring right now and hopefully I’ll get over this lame weakness and find something we both love to hang up. SOON!

I came home on Friday to find a package sitting by the front door. I knew it was this lovely personalized sign that I ordered from Sweet Savannah! The bottom says, “Est 2008″ since that’s the year we got married. I immediately put Tyler to work and had him hang it up in our kitchen. Of course he’d do anything for his last name!

We’re still not sure what we want to put on top of our cabinets yet. It won’t be chicken, roosters, & wine racks like I notice that a lot of the homeowners here do with their kitchen (Mom, your kitchen’s an exception!). We also need new high stools for the island since the ones we currently have are wobbly and from IKEA.

I love our new table we purchased from Fry’s about a month ago. I thought this would actually make us want to eat dinner together instead of using the coffee table and watching TV at the same time. We’re still working on breaking the habit. We bought our sectional couch from Macy’s on Labor Day weekend but didn’t get it until 4 weeks later. It’s microfiber and the only thing I hate about it is getting shocked when Tyler would lean in for a kiss or hug after getting up from the couch.

We’re taking a break with our house projects until after the Holidays. At the end of this month we have our anniversary and both of my parents’ Birthday AND Thanksgiving too.

Plan A: Build a fireplace. We didn’t build a fireplace which I originally wanted to. My dad and Tyler convinced me it was going to take forever and a lot of money especially when we didn’t have all the tools we really needed. So there went my plan.

Plan B: Craigslist. After only a few minutes of searching, I immediately found one I fell in love with. We went over to the owner’s house and purchased it from him. We felt bad for the guy that lived across the street – he was supposedly having a garage sale and had been sitting outside for a while hoping people would come by and no one did. I’m sure he didn’t enjoy seeing his neighbor sell a fireplace in less than 5 minutes.

The fireplace was dirty & almost a yellowish color. I swear I thought I took a “before” picture and unfortunately I didn’t… so there’s a picture of what it looks like after we sanded it.

We had paint from a previous project – Behr Premium with Paint & Primer in one. The longest part of the process was hot gluing the marbles on. Before we even did that we placed the marbles on first to see how many we needed for each side and to make sure they were even. Poor Tyler, I accidentally touched his finger with the hot glue gun. Then at the end, I did it to myself! Hot gluing can be messy & frustrating but that didn’t matter anymore after we were finished.

We only spent $100 on this project and that was spent on the fireplace and marbles from Michael’s. We’re in love with it! We’re thinking about getting wood and painting it the same color then put it on to add more thickness to the top. I’m already excited to hang my Christmas stockings up and now Santa Claus can come and leave us presents. It sucks we don’t have room for our Christmas tree in this area. Enough with the Christmas talk. We’re now satisfied with our faux fireplace and fire pit in our backyard that we finally used recently and I absolutely love the smell of burning wood!