The Loft….Before
The loft in my house has been many things. First, it was a room where I taught preschool and housed all of my teaching supplies. I then transitioned back to the classroom and the loft became a playroom/junk collecting room. There were the remnants of a preschool but mostly it was just a mess. In the garage I had a giant bookcase that held enough books for a small library and I was beginning to worry the heat of the Arizona summer was going to ruin the glue in their bindings. The beginnings of a merge began in my minds eye. I pictured a Domino magazine type room. A room that was chic yet user friendly to my family. I was also on a VERY tight budget because who really has extra cash lying around for DIY projects? Or time for that matter……
The first thing I thought I would do was pick paint. I wanted something that would let light in and make me happy. Eventually, I scrapped all of these colors and went with the same paint color in my kitchen. It is called Dew Not Disturb from Dunn Edwards. It is very happy.
Must have McDonald’s Diet Coke.
As I was heading to my cousins to swim I noticed that I had a smear of paint across my chest. Nice.
Fitting everything in the Honda was a JOB. Then it was time to look around the house at what I already had. I wondered if there was anything that I could spray paint or re-use to decorate this room. I really wanted to buy this chair at target to add a pop of color. However, after seeing the price tag and realizing that it would cost the same as a month of groceries I decided against it. I searched the name of the print and found out it is a Waverly print. I ordered a yard from Joann’s online May 29 and it is STILL NOT here. I am not happy about it at all. Especially since I found it at a competitors store. I have a chair that I really like and am planning to recover the seat and make some accent pillows.
Here is the chair…..just waiting on the fabric..I had a set of these three ceramic accent pieces that have been sitting in my garage for five years. I spray painted them.
Next up……organize this
Nearly there…The curtains were hemmed and I was just waiting on a sectional to arrive. In the meantime I wanted to add art. I wanted something all of us could contribute to and so we did a family abstract painting.
Artwork almost done…
I have a few spots left on the wall to fill but the majority of these pictures are artwork I have purchased on my travels. Or pictures that I have taken myself along with family pictures. I am going to add a few more drawings that my kids do. Let’s just say I am not quite a Type A personality type nor am I a Type B personality type. I’m more like an A- Type personality. What I have found works best for me when doing a gallery wall is to pin a rectangle on the wall and fill it. I don’t measure, I don’t use a level, I just get to work.
After the sectional arrived I realized it would never fit the way I had set the room up. So, I had to rearrange everything. It took me a whole day. I moved the desk/bookcase to the other side of the room. I laid one of the bookcases on its side and put all the books back in.
I just have a few more spots to fill on the gallery wall. I’m not in a rush the right pictures will come at the right time. I am so happy with the way our loft has turned out. We now have space for friends to visit, a room I can work out in, we can watch a movie in, do art projects or homework in.
The scriptures tell us about having a house of order and that is my goal this summer. I have taken bags upon bags of donations to Goodwill. We have organized our bedrooms. Well, I have helped the kids organize their bedrooms. My room is in the process of being gutted. This was once just a house but now with a little hard work it is a part of us and we call it home.
8 Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.
XOXO- Summer Projects are satisfying. The Sunny D