Decorating

Joel and I have done a good job at decorating our living room and kitchen in the 10 months that we've lived in our apartment, but our bedroom has been severely neglected. Well, that has finally changed! We took advantage of our weekend and finished up some projects, like matting some prints and framing others.

Even though our kitchen is set up nicely, we still felt like something was missing, and Joel suggested putting up a chalkboard in our kitchen to jot down notes, lists, etc. And instead of buying one, we decided to make one! We picked up a piece of MDF that was way too long and had them cut it down into two pieces: one for the kitchen like we originally planned, and the second for the bedroom since we had the left over piece.

Once we got home, we prepped our work station (a picnic table in the backyard), and started by applying two coats of primer, and called it a day. The next morning we applied a coat of the chalkboard paint, which has a drying time of 30 minutes between coats. Throughout the day we periodically applied coats of paint to the board until the sun went down and the pieces were mostly dry. And the next morning once the pieces were fully dry, Joel attached some screws and the chalkboards ready to hang. And this is what we now have up in our room:

The yellow print of the owl was a gift from my sister, which we matted and re-framed. The embroidered bird is the one I made a couple of months ago and finally got around to mounting on some mat board and framed, and of course the new chalkboard! Joel added the bunch of lavender as a surprise, which I absolutely love because it reminds me of the hotel we stayed in on our honeymoon that had bunches of lavender placed throughout the hotel.

On the other wall in the room we put up the quilted honeycomb that I blogged about here. The room feels complete, and definitely more homey now. I'll try and post photos of the rest of the house soon!