DIY Home Week.

You know how you have all these ideas in your head of projects you want to do around the house? The kind of ideas you get because you've been cooped up in the house all winter and your just sick and tired of looking at the same old stuff on your walls? Well, my husband and I decided to tackle a couple of those yearning projects last week. Project 1.) Chalk paint wall. This idea sounded so cool to me. A wall that we could make into a huge chalk board! Instead of using that boring old white erase board we had on the wall before, we could have this neato thing! And my daughter could have fun drawing on the lower portion of it. We used chalk paint you can purchase at Home Depot, it comes in a variety of colors. Just paint on a surface you want, and let dry for a few days before using.  I like how it looks, but my only complaints would be the chalk can get kinda messy (you have to clean up chalk dust on the floor ever time you use it), and the surface is bumpy because of the textured wall behind it, so it's not smooth to write on. Also, it's hard to get completely rid of all the chalk smears after you erase something. I've been using a soap and water solution in a spray bottle  and it seems to do an okay job. But other than that, this wall is pretty fun, huh?! I've seen this paint used on mason jars and other containers too. You can create an erasable label surface. So many cool uses for chalk paint!

Project 2.) Industrial hanging shelf. My husband and I came up with this this super simple hanging shelf. We have high ceilings in our living room, and we needed something to fill up the wall space above the TV. We took a scrap piece of pine we had lying around, and purchased some thick industrial chain from Home Depot. The end result is this cute shelf that now hangs in the corner of our living room!

We also decided to re-vamp the master bathroom. I've yet to take pictures of that one because it's still a work in progress. It's being painted a lovely lagoon blue, and I'm needing to take a trip to the coast to snag up a big piece of driftwood I have plans to make a shelf out of.

Ideas, ideas! Soon it'll be spring and our DIY projects will turn outdoors. We have big plans for this  blackberry infested, weed filled yard of ours.

Happy Monday!

-Becky