Thursday, May 5, 2011

Entry Wall Stencil Project Completed!

Well let me start off by saying that if I had to do it again I wouldn't have gone the cheaper route like I did!  This project only cost me approximately $10 but the next time I will be ordering a sheet of stencils instead of purchasing one measley stencil from Joanne's for $5....  I am pleased with how things turned out but I wish I hadn't spent 4 days on doing it (while my toddler was running around), and here I was thinking it would only take me a day... What the heck was I thinking?  The wall I stenciled serves as our entry way so I use the little green table to hold mail and the boys will generally sit in my much loved goodwill chair to put on their shoes, the coat rack usually holds my purse and a ton of jackets although I threw those all on the sofa so the photo would be a bit prettier:)   I hate that our security console thing is on this wall but I wasn't there when it was installed and let me tell you I was furious with my husband when I came home to find that thing planted in teh center of the wall....   I am also hoping to find a larger table/desk that has more storage in the near future because I think that the scale is off by the table being so small, what do you think?  I actually just picked up a free desk that I got from a fellow freecycler which I absolutely love but it needs a lot of tlc so it will be a while before I can use it in the entryway.  I can't wait to finish ripping up the carpet and installing our bamboo floors and re-installing baseboards, everything is going to look so much better when it's all done! 

Here is a close up of the stencil



































And here is a larger view of the wall although I'm so ashamed that after almost a year of living in our home and ripping out all of the old baseboards that we still haven't put them in although they are sitting in our basement along with the uninstalled bamboo flooring  (trust me it's on the honey-do list)....




































So I have a question that I need your help with, when I do decide to replace the little green table with something larger, what color do you think it should be?  I use a lot of green and blue throughout my home but I'm wondering is something white would look better instead of the green?  Keep in mind that our flooring will eventually be a dark espresso brown....

9 comments:

  1. oooh it looks beautiful!!!!! so worth the hard work and effort! and yes, a white piece would be dramatic against the dark wood floors!

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  2. It looks so good...way to go!!! And re: the table. I vote for red! Bright cherry red. ;-)

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  3. Thanks so much Cassie and Melifaif! it's too funny you would say red Meli because the green table that is there now used to be bright red!!! Not sure how I feel about red with all of my blue and green though....

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  4. Looks awesome. I can only imagine how time consuming it was!! Good work

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  5. Wow! The walls are gorgeous!! I love the green but white might be nice too. Good luck with the floors, we did ours ourselves...it's a lot of work but so worth it.

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  6. Hey Kelly!! The stencil looks amazing! I always underestimate how long projects will take too but this one was well worth the effort!!!! I'm such a big fan of white and think a white table would look lovely up front!
    xoxo
    Cat@BudgetBlonde

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  7. I'm having Kelly withdrawals!! :)))

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  8. I love the stencil! I think the chair should be white so it pops. It's a cute table!

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