Kitchen Furniture

And just like that, it's another season! Which means it's time for another Seasonal Simplicity Home Tour!! A big thank you to Krista, from The Happy Housie , and April, from House by Hoff , for hosting these fun tours every season.  And as always, you can find the full lineup of fabulous bloggers at the end of this post. You may have already caught Part 1 of my Fall tour, where I shared our entryway and living room decorated for fall. Today, I want to share the other side of the room, which is our dining room. Welcome! As I mentioned in part 1, I don't actually own a whole lot of fall decorations, and so I had to search around our home for items that felt like fall to me. I know that my dining room doesn't necessarily scream "Fall", but as you look around the room you will find lots of subtle hints of it. One of my favorite spots to decorate for the changing seasons is this wall here that divides the living room from the dining room.  The antique wood shelf ...

It's no secret that I love to shop yard sales.  In fact, a lot of my home's decor was picked up from various yard sales over the years.  I just find so much joy in rumbling through other people's junk. It's seriously one of my favorite things to do.   Almost every Saturday during the summer months my mother-in-law and I go out for a drive to see if we can catch a few sales and I almost always bring home a few treasures . Today, I want to share what I've picked up at yard sales so far this summer. Let's start with my haul from last weekend: The spinning DVD tower has found a home in our basement holding Wii U games. However, I have a vision of using it at Christmas time to hang our Christmas cards on using clothes pins.   The metal Basketball court rules sign (which I got for free) now hangs in my boy's room. I love my new floppy white sunhat and have already worn it to the lake.  I like that it folds up and can be placed in a suitcase.  I'll be ta...

Remember when I added fake planks to my bedroom wall using a level and a pencil?  (See that post HERE )  Well I love the look so much that I decided to add fake planks to our dining room wall as well. But I did something different this time.  Instead of using a pencil to make my lines, I used a black colored pencil.  Before, I had to go over the lines with a matte polycrylic sealer to protect the lines from smearing, but because a colored pencil has wax in it, it doesn't really smear that much and so there was no need for the sealer.  However, if the lines were to get wet they would smear. So if you are planning to do this in a kitchen or a bathroom, or if you are someone who washes your walls, then you will want to add a polycrilic sealer over the pencil lines. I can't imagine my walls getting wet here in our dining room, so I skipped sealing it. Also, the lines could possibly be done with a permanent marker as well and then you wouldn't need a sealer, but I ...