I really do love seeing this sign here every time I go up the stairs though.
The progress and the fact that the hall just keeps looking prettier and prettier every day is like a perfect little gift I get to open every day.Did I tell you I found the paint in my basement?.
It’s going to be stunning about 10 15-minute installments from now..I feel like I should tell you that I can’t wait to show you the big reveal, but the truth is I can wait.I’m loving this!Well, yes, actually I am.
I’m sure that I like all these cafe curtains that I’ve been seeing around.I’m sure that I like the idea behind mine and I think it was fun to totally cheat my way through making them.. I’m not sure that I like these particular ones in this particular front hall application, though..
I started with one of my Walmart flour sack dish towels, and drew a really simple window pane plaid on it in Sharpie.. Then I cut it to size and hot glued the top to make room for the “curtain rod”….
…Which was actually a bamboo garden stake that I grabbed out of the mud room.It really only took them about 2 hours to completely remove that tree, wood and all, from our property..
When all that was left was a stump, we had another guy come in with a stump grinder and grind it all down to a pile of wood chips..I actually kinda liked the giant stump there, but Chris was worried about it being too hard to cut around when he’s mowing the lawn..
So that was our tree cutting adventure!It cost us about $1600 to have it removed completely so it definitely wasn’t cheap, and it wasn’t the funnest $1600 to spend on our house, but I definitely appreciate not having to feel so terrified of it falling on my bedroom every time there’s a wind storm!We’re pretty big on traditions in our little family, especially during this time of year.