Come and knock on my door

Literally, we have no doorbell.

After four years of living in our house, we finally ditched the 1960's door for a new one. Let's take a look at the evolution of our front door.

 When we moved in there was actually a storm door covering this white one, 

complete with mismatched hardware. We quickly ditched the storm door. 

We painted the door red and got some matching hardware. The red goes well with the cream color our house is painted. This door was cute, charming and original to the house. But, it wasn't very secure-hello half windows. And it didn't get us much privacy-you can see all the way down the hallway, not to mention if I was sitting on the couch breastfeeding anybody could walk right up and see. Also, on the horizon we will be painting the house a more modern gray and knew the door would have to go.

Shazam! A bright-as-can-be yellow will go great with the dark gray later to be painted on the house. And, sexy new hardware. Now I need a nice new mailbox to go with it and we are set.

Everything is Black and White

At three weeks we have intense focus on highly contrasting things, such as black and white images, painted stripes and wallpaper. I had no idea two big parts of our house I designed for a newborn baby!

There is a mirror on the reverse for when he gets older. Love this thing. It is starting to make Jonas cry less during diaper changes because he is so busy just staring at it, which is really cute because I just see his thoughts cranking.

 {circa 2009}

While the black and white striped wall is getting pretty tired at this point and a change would be nice, Jonas is in love with it! We will sit watching TV and he will peer over our shoulders staring deeply into it. 

{Empty built-in}

And I am also applauding my choice of a strong black and white graphic wallpaper for our family room built-in, because when Jonas and I are bouncing on the exercise ball, you guessed it, he is busy gazing at this wall. {The before and after built-in, featured on Design*Sponge}

It's starting to look like Christmas around these parts

This is the only place you will find a red & green motif at our house and it's not like I could have avoided that without painting our door another color! I picked up this gorgeous bay leaf wreath the other day mostly because of its shape.

We don't have a formal tree topper so I re-purposed one of the Halloween poms I had lying around.

I got an H and  J last year to hang on our stockings. They are made from vintage wallpaper applied onto a wood backing. Love these!

Can you believe this gorgeous stocking holder is from Kohl's? Ahhh, it is so perfect how it reflects the tree.

P.S. This blog will get kicked up a notch if Santa brings me the fabu camera I asked for this year.

DIY Entryway Mirror (Finally!)

Now we just need a console table to go under this bad boy!

So happy with this find from our local consignment store.

{Photographing in bad lighting with a mediocre point-n-shoot makes me sad.}

From the archives: black and white striped wall

Tip: this takes a long time. Be patient while taping off those stripes, give yourself hours to get them right. Also, spend the extra bucks on Frog tape instead of the blue stuff, it pays off. 

 Sadly I don't have an updated photo of the entryway, I am still searching high and low for the perfect console table and mirror. I hope I find something soon, because can you imagine a Halloween display infront of this wall? Dang.