My husband and I love to garage sale. One day we fell in love with a door at a random barn sale that we happened upon. We didn't know what we were going to do with it.
PS For the last 2 years of living in our home, it has irked me that our stairway was boring, stark white. HOWEVER, the ceiling is SUPER high and I'm just not all the excited about hopping up on a ladder over stairs to paint said stairway and I'm equally unexcited about paying someone to hop up on a ladder and paint it for me.
PS For the last 2 years of living in our home, it has irked me that our stairway was boring, stark white. HOWEVER, the ceiling is SUPER high and I'm just not all the excited about hopping up on a ladder over stairs to paint said stairway and I'm equally unexcited about paying someone to hop up on a ladder and paint it for me.
SO... with the irking of the stairway going on and this lovely door that we found, a brainstorm happened.
And it was one of those times when everything works out - the kids took a long nap, we were able to find the tools we needed, we didn't argue about which side of the door was more attractive, you know, the BIG stuff ;) ...my husband and I were on the same page and stoked about our weird little idea. And at the end of the day we had a door on our wall...now, I'm fully aware that MOST people will not love having a sideways door on their wall. Cool. But I've had several requests that I blog some of our ideas so here's this one. You probably don't think a sideways door is awesome like we do...that's totally fine...but this is just an example of how we had an idea and went with it and love it. So find a color that you love or a painting or a piece of art and ROCK it! No one should only decorate their home based on what everyone else is doing ;)
We also found a storm window that same day at the same sale and it came home with us as well...and now I use it to display little photos that I love like our family pics from my dear friend Yasmin, who is an awesome photographer if you're looking for one in the Portland/Seattle/Oahu/United States area ;) Or my favorite little polaroid art from Volume 25 on Etsy. These little things make me smile when I come down the stairs in the morning with my girls and are a wonderful way to start the day.
Welcome to our weirdly doored home. PS Should you decide to hang something large and unusual on your walls PLEASE PLEASE make sure the screws/nails are in studs. These doors are very very heavy and we have small children who we love very much. We would like to avoid doors dropping on their heads. SO these doors were attached about 6 times each to a separate stud and then MY stud grabbed each door and hung with his full weight on it to make sure these suckers were NOT.COMING.OFF.THE.WALL. Please do the same if you decide to take on a similar project. ;)
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