Have a Seat

After almost a year and a half of marriage I have finally gotten the house decorating bug.(We can all thank Pinterest for that one.) The first step was to re-paint the hideous walls in the kitchen and living room. Our house had the misfortune of being "decorated" by a Trading Spaces decorator and well there's never been anything on Trading Spaces that wasn't tacky so you can imagine what I was/am dealing with. So two paint jobs, a new rug and a coffee table later my house is finally starting to look inhabited. A few of the projects I'm working on are:

1) Repainting old frames so we can make a wall collage.

I love the organized chaos of it all.

2) Repainting and finding lampshades for some fun vintage lamps my Nana gave to me.

3) Collecting and hanging plates on the wall in the kitchen like this:

4) Technically I'm not working on this one quite yet, but as soon as I find a way to get my chairs to my house I plan to re-paint and re-cover the seats of 7 matching dining room chairs but all in different bright patterns. Somewhat like this:

I can't wait to start working on these chairs. We desperately need extra seating when we have our families over and who doesn't love a fun chair??

Thankfully, I was lucky enough to have someone give me a set of chairs to play with but here are a few of my faves from Etsy that planted the seed in my crafty brain.

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Hopefully, I can cram at least one chair in my tiny car this weekend when I swing through my hometown. I can't wait to get started!