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Passing the Time

It’s been a long time since I posted a house update/DIY post. Like January long. That’s when I shared about our mudwall in the foyer and the caffeine induced project that started it all. Ok, now that we are all caught up let’s talk about what actually jump started the caffeine induced project of repainting the walls.

It all goes back tot his guy, MORTORP.

Yep, I was flipping through the IKEA catalogue one day and instantly fell in love with him. It was as if he was calling my name. Letting me know that he would stand proudly in our foyer but he promised not to take up any space. SOLD!!! I loved the irony of having a grandfather clock in such a tiny space of our house.

So from there my mind started racing and that’s when I frantically repainted the foyer and started some concrete planning for our mudwall. MORTORP isn’t one of those break the bank kind of guys. He sells regularly for $9.99 but the sad news is he is only available in store. Thankfully, I had some friends heading over to the ATL for a little IKEA shopping trip anyway so they kindly picked one up for me.

(I had the bench there for a little while but it has since been moved.)

MORTORP was really simples to install. So simple I don’t have pictures. He came divided into separate decal pieces. And in the typical IKEA installation fashion it was super easy to line up each piece with the next. I was a little nervous at first because I really lack in the perfectionism traits but as long as you take things slow and steady and smooth all the air bubbles out as you go it will end up looking great.

I didn’t get fancy with the actual clock part of it either. I don’t remember the actual price but I know it was under ten bucks from Dollar General. Yep, that’s where this interior designer shops for accessories… this time. Anyway we love our new wall and love that it only cost us around $20 for this entire wall makeover.

Oh, and because I love it so much I just have to show you my door decor that my sister in law gave me for my birthday. I love how cheerful it makes our house look as well as how it goes with our mudwall. Thank you so much Ruth. It brightens my day… everyday.

We’ve been working on a few other projects in the past few months too. I’ll be sharing those over the next couple of weeks and hopefully tackling a few more as we make our way through summer. Don’t worry I’ll still keep you updated with Esther and our family happenings and I’m even thinking of doing an entire post devoted just to Noah and what she’s like now that she’s two and a half. We can’t let Esther have all the blog attention.

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DIY Drop Zone Mudwall

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Our Drop Zone Mudwall is finished and we are in love!This is by far our most favorite DIY project. Probably because it didn’t require that much work but the end result is amazing! Just to remind you of how far we have come here’s a before shot.And another after…

I love that we turned a normally overlooked and cluttered area in our house into a focal point. Using 2×4’s and 2×6’s we created our faux lockers by dividing the wall into three equal compartments. We created a little bit of depth to the wall by adding crown molding and a ledge to the top. I loved this idea because it gave me a spot to add some color and display a few things.

Like these cute little birds and milk glass that I picked up at Michael’s the other day.
I also used a couple of other pieces that we had from around the house… the best place to shop. I promise I didn’t use a solid black canvas on a frame. It is a really a beautiful stained glass picture with our family name on it. I’m just a little too paranoid to broadcast our last name out to the webiverse so I blurred our the letters. You can catch a glimpse of what it really looks like in the picture below.
I think the blue picture frames are the “cherry on top” for this wall. I love how they brought a plain white wall to life…. plus I just adore the labels I gave each frame: His and Hers, Big and Lil Sis, Keys and Things. And now everybody has their own hook.
And Noah loves that! She has already figured out which hook is hers and requests that her backpack be hung up there. It’s the little things! The satin nickel finished hooks were an inexpensive find at Lowe’s and the wood provides nice support so that these hooks can hold things like my Super Heavy Mom’s Always Prepared Purse.
I almost forgot to tell you about one the coolest features of our wall… well at least it’s pretty cool to us… the mailbox we hung up. Yep. We used a mailbox that is normally hung on the exterior of a house and placed it right by our front door. You see we have a problem. Normally our mail spends most of its time cluttering up the kitchen counter. Which means it is taking up valuable kitchen property.

So, we decided to hang a mailbox right at our front door so that I can drop any pieces of mail in there for ML to look at LATER. So far it’s been working out great for us. The mailbox also came with two hooks at the bottom that would typically hold newspapers. We are going to use those hooks to hold umbrellas and dog leashes though.

At first I was a little overwhelmed that the black mailbox would stand out like a sore thumb against the white wall but using chalkboard paint on the signs and adding the picture to the shelf really help to balance all that black out.

So even though this took us almost three weeks of DIY free time we are incredibly pleased with the end result of our mudwall!

Do you have a specific drop zone area in your house? Are you like us and find your mail cluttering up a particular spot? I think junk mail people are the only ones keeping the USPS in business anymore.

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A Mudwall with Icing

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Michael Luke and I have a tendency to draw projects out. Gasp! We don’t mean to it just happens. It’s what happens when you don’t eat, sleep, and breathe DIY projects but you still like tackling them. It’s what happens when you like to keep my mom in suspense. 🙂 Like with our mudwall.

We really thought this was going to be a weekend project. Three weekends in and we are finally putting the finishing touches on it!

We are still waiting on some of the paint to dry before adding all the fun things like accessories and hooks to hang everything on. So, I’ll be back later this week with all the final pictures.

Don’t let this little three weekender scare you. It really can be done a lot quicker… we just get distracted easily. The amount of time we have spent on it during the past three weekends has been very minimal. So all in all it can be a weekend project.

So far my favorite part of this wall makeover is the crown molding.

It’s like the icing on the cake. We dressed up the top of our little faux lockers with crown molding and a 4″ ledge. It really adds a lot of depth to the wall. The ledge will make a nice place to display some color… because lets face it this white wall is going to need a little something to liven it up.

Oh, and see that random board that’s not all that pretty underneath the light switch? Something pretty cool is going there… come back later this week to find out.

In the meantime, I want to know what is the one project you would love to have done in your house? We are just dreaming here… so go on break the budget a little. For me, I would love a complete master bath redo. Give me some beautiful marble floor tile installed in a herringbone pattern with a multi-jet floor to ceiling tiled shower. Oh, and while we are at it… I’ll take some board and batten on the walls and really cool eclectic mirrors above the newly installed deep wood toned vanities. Ok. That was fun! Now your turn.

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