I come back after a bit of a "blog break" to excitedly exclaim, "We are making progress!!". Things have been happening over here in the Lodder household! The front entrance/closet area is almost completed, the basement has a coat of paint and is waiting on some furniture/wall hangings, and (drum roll please) we now have pictures in the empty frames that have been gracing our living room wall for the past 4 months! Yay!
I finally took the plunge and ordered some photo prints last week. I had been staring at the empty frames for much.too.long. I wanted to make sure that I picked the "perfect" combination of prints (taking into account colours, people in the photo, etc. etc. etc.) and I had been finding this decision making process very overwhelming! I did have a general idea of what I wanted though, and so I took the leap and ordered the prints.
I used photos from two shoots that we had last fall. One of just our family by the very talented Katherine M. Vintage Photography. And another shoot of Mark's entire family done by the also very talented Mauve Photography. I loved how all the pictures turned out - they printed great!
Anyways, without further ado, here are some recent pictures of our current Living Room Area (our main floor is one large open concept space...). I love how this area is coming along. I am enjoying the process of making this space (and all the spaces) our home - a comfortable place to be with the people I love!
On a side note: that is the coffee table that the hubs and I DIYed. Does anyone have any advice on how to protect a white table top? I painted it with Martha Stewart Chalk Paint (from Michaels) and used her wax to protect it. Now, I only did one layer of wax....perhaps putting a couple more layers would be better? It has just gotten stained really quickly and now my beautiful white table top has brownish splotches all over it:(.
And, here's a close up of my gallery wall! I love using the ribba frame ledges from Ikea because it allows me to rearrange and change things up every so often (without asking Mark to pull out some mud and paint to fix all the nail holes! You're welcome honey!! :D).
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