A La Entry

I wrote a post a few months ago about our entry stairs when Dave refinished them.  Apparently, we love spontaneous stair projects.  At our friend's house one night (after several glasses of wine), we helped them rip carpet off of their front hall stairs.  After a few hours of pulling staples, some minor cuts and just a few nicks in the stairs, it looked pretty good.  I'm not sure how thrilled they were the next morning.  Anyhooters, my sister and I painted our foyer and upstairs hallway soon after moved in.  Like most of the palette in this house when we bought it, the foyer was in the depressing brown category.  They left a few hooks that I spray painted black and they look fab.  Before;

 

You can see the dark red paint and original wood trim in the living room to the right.  So many changes!  I also found a bench at a garage sale, spray painted it black and recovered it.  It's still one of my favorite finds.

 

Stairway wall space is intimidating.  We don't have kids school pictures to frame and an entire wall dedicated to Bruno would be a little much.  Dave and I were walking around the Antique Mall and we noticed some sepia-toned, vintage photographs and decided to make a little project out of it.  While we realize that it's a little out there to frame and display pictures of perfect strangers, we figured we can replace these with our children's photographs someday.  Here are some prep pics and the after;

 

  

 

  

  

  

I bought a few rolls of that pink ribbon so that we can carry this idea into the upstairs hallway.