People are always commenting and inquiring about the wall of hats in our dining room. They were my grandmother hats, and they are all fabulous and unique.
I have loved having them displayed as a focal point in our home, but it was making our dining room so feminine and prissy...especially when paired with our floral rug and floral cafe curtains. So I x-ed the cafe curtains, for now, and I shook things up a bit with the hat wall.
I made the back wall of our dining room more of a salon wall, with the vintage hats as the main element. This feels a little more casual to me, and a little more "me".
﻿Don't worry...I know our chandelier is the real downer in our dining room! Just ask my husband, I complain about it constantly. But luckily, this weekend we are getting started restoring an old chandelier that was my grandmothers! It will be much better! I can't wait!
We were blessed to have found Charles the Painter, and his handy wife Marilyn! We originally weren't even planning on hiring painters. We just wanted someone to help Chris with the scraping and prep part of the job. Charles gave us such a low quote that we couldn't resist and hired him for the whole job. And I am so glad we did!
They worked so hard on our house and did everything the tried and true honest way...no shortcuts! We've had some setbacks with the cold weather, which made it a very long process, but now their job is complete!
- Smoothed out all our wood siding with spackling to make it all smooth and look like new!
- And finally...painted the house!
Good job to Chris and his dad Bill!
I built our shutters with basically 0 help from any of the men! I'm kind of proud of that.
I took down the black lantern on our porch and spray painted it "oil-rubbed bronze"
It looked pretty stark and brown with the stark white primed trim...scary!
And after some touch-ups and two coats all around...the house looked amazing, due to Charles, Marilyn, and their trusty sidekick Bei!
And Chris and I worked pretty dang hard ourselves!
Thanks to our friends and family that helped too...Lindsey, Alex, and Bill!
Now it's time to relax and enjoy it paint our steps and porch and do some landscaping!
If you're in the Birmingham area and need a painter or general handy man, please contact me and I would love to pass along Charles the painter's info!