Home Decorating - Berry Berry Quite Contrary

Updated on September 18, 2020March 31, 2020Home Decorating

Tempar Wallpaper in Laundry Room

During this social isolation time I am trying to stay as busy as possible! Not hard with 4 daughters! Being at home has really been my experience the last 8-10 years of my life. Obviously not to this extent of course, but being a stay at home mom and consistently scheduling everything around nap times, feedings, etc., I really am at home a lot. I’ve found for me, especially in recent years, projects keep me sane. I don’t like sitting around a lot and I would rather be working on a project than laying on my couch taking a nap. I honestly don’t like naps. My mom says even as a little girl I would fight nap time. See mom, it’s just how I’m made!

I read a quote a few weeks back that stuck with me: “she defined the creative impulse as “making something more beautiful than it has to be.” That’s it. I find making our home as cozy, safe, warm, and hygge as I possibly can, brings me joy. It’s important. It’s valuable. It’s joy-giving to me and hopefully to my loved ones who live here.

My project this last weekend was to hang up wallpaper in our laundry room. I had some leftover from my fridge project in our kitchen. It took me under an hour to put up and I love the big impact it makes!

Before: This was my first makeover on the laundry room. At the time I was still trying to figure out my style in our new home. And Matt had asked me to paint it yellow… so I did…. reluctantly!

After:

Super cute, right?!

This wallpaper is one my favorites. You can purchase it HERE. I have noticed the price has gone up since I bought mine.

Not too long ago we installed the bead board, hooks and painted it white. It really helped brighten up the space and made it more useful.

The wallpaper adds such a fun design element.

The hardest part is getting your seams and patterns to match up. Once you get the hang of it though it goes pretty quickly! Like anything in life, the more you practice, the better you will get at it.

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Updated on September 13, 2020March 27, 2020Home Decorating

Painted Porch Makeover

Hi friends! Today I want to share all the details on our painted front porch makeover!

Years ago I found out that you could paint your cement porch. I was super excited and did this striped pattern on our porch.

This is what our steps looked like. Because they are not covered, every Spring I would have to re-paint them. A little more high maintenance but I have never minded because I like the look so much and it literally takes me 15 minutes. I decided I was ready for a new look so grabbed my paint and paintbrush and got to work!

I will link all products used at the bottom of this post. First step was priming and then painting the steps white. I then taped out my pattern and painted it black. I wanted a stair runner type look. Make sure to measure so that your “runner” is centered!

Once that was done I decided to give my actual porch floor a fresh coat of white paint as well.

I love how much it brightened the area up!

The finished product!

To me, our porch is an extension of our indoor living space. We love spending time out here in the evenings or on a nice day.

I can’t wait to spruce this space up for Spring with lots of plants and I’m keeping my eye out for a mat to layer under this one.

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Kayla

Updated on September 14, 2020March 11, 2020Home Decorating

Wallpapered Fridge

In our kitchen we don’t have a lot of open wall space. Every wall has cabinets on it so there is no where to put an open shelf or hooks to display items. A while ago I added these wooden hangers from H & M to the side of our fridge using magnets. It makes the perfect spot to display some cute decor pieces & items we use in the kitchen. Immediately I knew I wanted to add some wallpaper here. It felt kind of blah to me so I began hunting for stick and peel wallpaper. Holy moly. Lots of options out there but I finally narrowed it down to one and ordered it.

I purchased this wallpaper HERE. I fell in love with the scalloped design and it was a great price point. I’ve seen a few other bloggers use this same wallpaper in their projects and thought it would go nicely with our new white kitchen. It’s definitely more modern than what I would typically do but I find myself being drawn towards more of that style lately.

The wallpaper was easier to put up than I thought it would be. I’ve never done it before so didn’t really know what to expect. I didn’t time myself but my guess is it took me right around a half hour from start to finish. The hardest part is to make sure you don’t have air bubbles, that’s what the squeegee is for and to make sure your pattern lines up. If you do end up with a few air bubbles just barely poke it with your razor blade and the bubble will smooth right out and you wont see the tiny hole at all.

Wallpaper sure has come a long ways. I can remember when I was little spending hours scraping pink kitten wallpaper off of my bedroom walls when I decided I had outgrown it. My mom had our living room walls adorned with pink and blue heart wallpaper that she had to scrape off at some point as well. Isn’t it funny that we look back at that and think, “What were they/I thinking?!” I wonder if my girls will think the same thing of me when they get older. Funny how styles & trends change.

I think the kitchen and dining room flows nicely together now.

My grandpa & grandma’s home in Omaha is adorned with wallpaper as well. They aren’t with us anymore but we were lucky enough to get to keep the house; thanks to my mom and dad and aunt and uncle. We have so many special memories there and whenever we travel to Omaha we stay there. Opening the red front door and walking in, it still smells the same it smelled 10 years ago and memories always flood my mind. We went there this last weekend and some of the wallpaper my grandma had put up actually looks like some of the trends I am seeing now. I’m sure that wallpaper has been there for over 30 years. There are also macrame plant holders throughout the home. Isn’t it crazy how styles come back? Who decides when this will happen?! For real. I want to know!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, painting my kitchen cabinets white has allowed me to start transforming our home into a space that brings me joy. If you’ve been putting off doing something because you’re fearful of failing…. just do it! If it’s been on your heart for a while just go for it. It’s on your heart for a reason. Now I wish I wouldn’t of waited almost 5 years to paint my cabinets!

Hope you enjoyed this small project I did. Goes to show how something small can make a big impact! Thanks for stopping by!

Kayla