Our front entryway is the only space in our home that feels "finished" to me, and even then, I feel like the table top could use some styling help. You gotta start somewhere! I've been on the lookout for an affordable front entryway table for years now. I haven't been interested in dropping $500 on one, no matter how much I like it. I finally, finally came across an unfinished, solid wood table from Target. Once it arrived, I assembled it and stained it, using leftover stain and poly. I'm confident staining and applying coats of finish after we stained our daughters' bunkbed. I worked on it over a couple days in the garage (having a garage is the business!). It's nice to have a play to drop keys when we come in, and our kitchen counters are a lot less cluttered. Of course it's another surface to keep tidy (not my strength with two littles!), but Conor's the man and he's always so great at picking up after me. I'm really proud of this little project. It was worth the little bit of time and effort.
The art we hung is kind of a nice, "Hey, this is who we are." First is a hand-calligraphied piece by my friend, Melissa. Then the art progresses through the three places we've lived. Grain elavators for Alberta (this piece was my grandparents. They are the grain elevators from my Grandma's hometown, Delia), a letterpress piece of the centennial state, Colorado, and last, a commissioned piece of the beach for California. Each piece was collected independently of the others, however we somehow still managed to come up with 4 pieces of blue-green. On the opposing wall, we have the Oakland temple and a mirror. Simple, simple. Hopefully we can pull together the other areas in our home soonish....
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