I just love a darkened house some days when I want things to seem extra quiet. So does my camera apparently. Or at least it did the other day when I was trying to get these photos of my new giant cast iron hooks.
This is the way I like this front hall we’ve been working on best anyway. All dark and shadowy with the grey Fall light coming in through the window.
We finally got around to getting a bit more progress in the front hall, which is good, because now we’ve got another big BIG project started up that I can’t wait to show you. A couple of them actually.
Wahoo! Yippee! About flippin’ time!… I mean.. Yay!
Back to the hooks. You’ll never believe where I found them. The dollar store!
It’s settled. You can find pretty much anything there.
These are extra giant too. I love them because when they’re not holding up coats, they’re like big ol’ pieces of sculpture.
It’s possible that I may be even more excited about them just because I’ve been waiting about 2 months to have them hung. I get nervous about drilling into these old walls myself.
After Chris got them up for me, I had a little “well, that was dumb” moment. I should’ve just done it myself 2 months ago. Especially after seeing how much more “front hall-y” they make it look in here. Does that makes sense?
Well, it’s just a little something, but I’ll take all the progress I can get.
You know what we need right now? We need a before and after. Let’s dig a picture out from a year ago.
Well, you can see the floor and the walls in this one. So that was the before.
…and after!… or rather, during!
Yup. I feel better now, don’t you? Whether it’s taken a whole year or not, that’s progress!
Courtenay Hartford is the author of creeklinehouse.com, a blog based on her adventures renovating a 120-year-old farmhouse in rural Ontario, Canada. On her blog, Courtenay shares interior design tips based on her own farmhouse and her work as founder and stylist of the interior photography firm Art & Spaces. She also writes about her farmhouse garden, plant-based recipes, family travel, and homekeeping best practices. Courtenay is the author of the book The Cleaning Ninja and has been featured in numerous magazines including Country Sampler Farmhouse Style, Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, Real Simple, and Our Homes.