Good morning Thursday! I seriously feel like it was just Monday- like yesterday. I have been keeping my niece for the week and I feel like I haven't got anything done. But that's okay because I am cherishing every minute I get to spend with her. I worked on this project Tuesday afternoon and she cried because she thought the ladder was too high. Poor little thing wouldn't last long in our house because I'm constantly climbing, stacking and on the edge, trying to hang up something. I joke with Austin about how our kid will be decorating before it even learns to crawl.
Our stairway is bare and it has been since we moved in. If you follow me on Instagram I only share photos of my pretty, somewhat complete rooms. Although I think a space is never truly finished or completed- but you get what I mean. They are presentable and pretty. Our stairway is not. Austin mentions almost on the daily about how I need to get something on the walls. So on Tuesday I did.
I don't know if I have mentioned this before but I am a furniture/decor hoarder. Okay lets be real, y'all all know this. I mean I started an entire pop-up shop business from stuff I had hoarded in our garage. Now I have an entire warehouse to keep my "inventory" in. If I see something I love I buy it- well within reason and what I can afford. I may not always know where I will use it, but I pack it in my car and bring it home. In the past it would just sit in my garage until I found a place for it. So when I needed something for a space/project I could "shop" my garage. Now I do the same thing, I just have to drive across town to my warehouse. Oh and I actually have to sell some of the beautiful things I find to make money to find and buy more beautiful things. But this cycle never gets old or boring!
This tobacco basket {pictured below} has sat in my dining room since I came back from Lucketts Spring Market in May. Once I get set up at my shows I love to shop. {I know you're totally not surprised}. Each vendor brings such unique items and I love seeing what treasures I can find. I sell tobacco baskets but not these oblong shaped ones, and I fell in love when I saw this one. Governors Antiques right outside of Richmond, VA is who I purchased it from and goodness gracious does he have some amazing things. AND there's 6 acres of architectural salvage at his store. Yes 6 ACRES!! But anyway I got the tobacco basket because I knew eventually I would find a place for it. {And I did on Tuesday afternoon}.
I came across this metal, chippy, rusty, large container a week ago and I bought it to add to my inventory for upcoming shows. But I couldn't part with it... so I bought it home. And just so happens it fit perfect inside my oblong tobacco basket. So I layered the two, added some greenery, and hung it in my stairway.
Now I just have to decorate the rest of the stairway. Oh and I REALLY want to shiplap the entire thing!! Austin says no... But maybe I can talk him into it. Or just do it one day while he is at work.
With love,
Here are a few stairways I am inspired by: {Click Photo's for Sources}
Liz Marie Blog
Golden Boys and Me
