Hello You

Hello You.

It's me again, Veronica.

If you happen to follow along with my blog,

you know that I am slowly working my way

around our home and styling areas that need

a little styling/restyling.

Our lower level of our home has a family room, with

bar area, 2 bedrooms, a full bath and a room that we

use as a work out room, plus a small area for storage.

The area in the above picture is the hallway that

leads to the guest bathroom and bedrooms.

It was a plain hallway that needed to be a little dressed up.

I had an extra blank canvas that was dying to be

made into a piece of art.

I thought that a piece of art would be enough

to dress up this bare wall.

Ummm, no.

That wall still looked bare to me.

It was o.k., but it still needed a little something to cover up the

carbon monoxide detector. I didn't want to buy anything new so I went

digging through my stash of home decor and furniture that is in

our storage area to see what I could find.

I found this stand that used to be in our kitchen.

I kept digging and came across this floral arrangement

and placed it on the stand.

Ignore the crooked picture, I didn't have my tripod level.

Oopsie!

That's better.

I really liked the simple arrangement on the stand,

but the only thing wrong with this was

you could still see the carbon monoxide detector.

Drats!

So I kept digging and found a tobacco basket.

On the stand it went.

I liked the look of the tobacco basket on the

stand but it kept falling down and wouldn't

stand up to cover the detector.

Back to digging.

Next, I found this birdhouse that I bought many,

many years ago at a craft show.

It helped to hold up the basket.

O.k. that looks better.

Except,

now I needed to balance out the

right side of the stand.

So I placed Hubby's childhood bible,

which was the perfect off white color

on the bottom right side.

It was still a little off balance.

Back to digging.

I found a short pillar candle holder and placed

it on top of the bible.

Dang it, now the right side is too dark!!!

Back to digging some more.

How about a little blue bird on top of the pillar candle holder?

I love using birds in my decor.

I think I'm finally satisfied with this look.

Yeah!

From plain and boring.....

to an unexpected welcoming hallway.

Not only did I get a nicely styled hallway,

with plenty of room to walk around the corner,

but best of all...

it didn't cost me a dime!

Hubby definitely loved that!

That's it for this week.

Until Next Time,

Veronica