Well, the first stage of the foyer wall shelf!
My Dad and I built the frame of the shelf on Sunday night….. okay my Dad did most of the work because it was at the end of the weekend and my brain couldn’t keep up with his! LOL. Then all week I had a little sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach wondering if I was making a huge mistake and this shelf would look awful. But last night my Hubby and the boys put up the frame……… And I think this is dead on what the foyer needed.
Do you see all that space between the door and the window? Installing a 9 foot door helped, but it always looked awkward to me. Now can you envision sheetrock, painted all out in white, beautiful crown moulding, and down lights??? It’s going to be fabulous!
This won’t be a real blog if I didn’t include the REAL story about the hanging of this frame. See my Hubby texted me during the day and said that he would hang the frame up for me that night because he and my son where heading out for a three day weekend. That sounds great to me! So I ran down and got a couple pizzas for a quick dinner and placed them in the oven for when my Hubs got home. Meanwhile, I thought I would kill some time waiting for him to get home in my Craftroom (which is up stairs) only to hear my daughter yell up the stairs that my teenage son and his friends ATE all the pizza! Yes, all of it!! Do you have a breaking point? Because my son and his friends just found mine. Needless to say, there was a lot of yell, screaming, and plenty of dirty looks to go around the rest of the night. My clueless son and his friends apparently didn’t think that the other 4 people living in the house needed to eat! So while I face a long sleepless weekend (don’t sleep well when my Hubby’s gone and my son’s racing) they are glad they get three days away from me and hopefully I will calm down. Silly I know…. getting upset about some eaten pizza……………………….
Have a great weekend!
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LOVE.IT, Carrie !! You're exactly right in this is what your foyer needed !! I can't wait to see the finished product ... it's going to be fabulous !!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'm sure your son and his friends will know never to touch your pizza again. Boys! lol
Hey! Rude is rude. Just ask me about the one bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper I bought for myself after blowing $400 on groceries for all the boys in my house....yah, it was being drank while I unloaded the truck. I hear ya!
ReplyDeleteI think your shelf is GENIUS! cannot wait to see how it all turns out.
Oh Carrie, I can totally relate. My youngest son is 6'5" and doesn't seem capable of figuring out how much food to take to equal how many of us live here!!! If you see 8 hamburgers and there are 4 people, just take 2!!! No, he takes 3 and by the time we realize it, I am stuck with 1 because I am mom!!
ReplyDeleteYour foyer will look great with that shelf!
Looks good! Can't wait to see how it turns out!!!!
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That is going to look wonderful! Great idea... oh, and on the pizza thing. I would have done the exact same thing. Can't wait to see it finished!
ReplyDeleteYou are doing it!!!! Yay! Yours is so much bigger than mine. It is going to look fantastic!
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Awesome shelf, WOW that thing looks pretty darn hardy too! Can't wait to see the finished look. And you can bet there would be some yelling in my house had my boys done that too! Silly yes, but we like to think we raised well mannered kids to be considerate of others in the house NOT! How about the no toilet paper left??OH I can go on and on...
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be great, Carrie!
ReplyDeleteTeenagers!... the pizza story is something you will laugh about when he is older, probably for many years.
Carrie - it looks absolutely beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya on the breaking point over the pizza. Sometimes you just have to let loose from all the stress, and something like that will upset me and a lot of other people. You're only human after all.
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Tracy All Thumbs Crafts
Not silly at all...I have two guys who were once teenagers...I totally get the frustration!I
ReplyDeleteYour foyer is going to look fabulous. I have the same entry...why have I never thought of doing this?????
Had to be a man who designed these foyers...ya think?
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janet xox
OH LOVE LOVE IT... its gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteCarrie, its going to look great. You are right that the space is too big between the door and window. Mine is the same and we put up a huge mantel over the front door and its looks great. You are going to love it. And well, what can I say about the pizza, boys will be boys!
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Carrie, great job on the shelf! It's going to look fabulous!
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder what teenage boys are thinking when they do stuff like that. I have yelled at mine too--of course!!
Have a great weekend!
Pam
Oooh that's going to be so fabulous when it's done! Can't wait to see. :)
ReplyDeletePS - That is my biggest pet peeve. I just have one kid, a toddler, but my brother used to eat ALL my delicious leftovers, without considering that I had been thinking about them and looking forward to eating them ALL day.
I think the shelf is going to look great! And your son and his friends got off easy if yelling and screaming is all they got. There would have been blood shed at my house ;)
ReplyDeleteThe shelf is going to be ab fab when done! Can't wait for the final reveal. I agree that it was thoughtless to eat all of the pizza, but having my own teenaged boy - I have to say those boys can hoover more food than humanly possible.
ReplyDeleteCarrie,
ReplyDeleteIt is going to look awesome, I can't wait to see the finished product!!
I have two grown son's, know all about breaking points. What's a crisis today is funny tomorrow.
Sometimes hunger overrides teenage manners. So sorry it started your weekend this way.
Oh yes, that would look awesome, I can totally see your vision!
ReplyDeleteCan`t wait to see the finished hallway;)
Lovely greetings...
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