March 28, 2013
The spring clean up continues over here at Casa La Allen!! This time I’ve targeted the weird area that sits between the entry way/desk zone and the kitchen. It’s also the access point to the basement stairs. It’s a weird space that we’ve never tried to do anything with. It’s exactly 31 3/8″ wide and 12″ deep. There has been four hooks installed here since we moved in and we’ve used it as a place to hang coats. This might sound like a essential space to have in a home with no coat closet, but now that we’ve got the mud room organized and functioning we don’t need other places to hang coats. The coats, hoodies, and umbrellas we normally hang here don’t get used for months. This space has become the place you hang stuff when you’re feeling to lazy to put it away in a 2nd floor closet. So losing that coat hanging area wasn’t really essential to the function of the home or entryway. Plus I’ve got plans to add a new guest-only coat hanging place in the actual entry area. So all that being said, I took a trip to Ikea this weekend and came home [...]
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February 20, 2013
I never knew that ‘Bar Keepers Friend‘ was a miracle when it comes to shinin’ and spiffin’ up old furniture. That was until I read a cool post about making your brass new and shiny looking over on Manhattan Nest. That blog has taught me a thing or two in my day, this was a good lesson. First of all, I used to never care for brass or anything gold and shiny. Probably because I associated with all the gaudy 90′s decor of my childhood. I guess I got over it because these days I’m liking it, quite a bit actually. It’s showing up all over the house, and all over me. I’ve been rocking brassy earring, bracelets and zippers like nobody’s business. I’m sold on this stuff. When we moved in 3 years ago, I picked up this vintage footstool and promptly placed it in our upstairs porch, never to be thought of again. I recently rearranged the living room furniture and brought down the footstool. Now it’s all up in my day-to-day space, and I’ve been really enjoying having it around. It makes lounging in the living room an actual thing, that happens, and satiates my hunger for [...]
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