May 16, 2016

Hallway Decor

Martie Big Creek Farmhouse Remodel Daddy-O's pottery, hallway decor, hand-carved fish, revamped our hallway 22 Comments

I don’t know what took me so long, but I finally completed my hallway decor!  It’s been months since we revamped our hallway space, removing a huge, cumbersome piece of furniture and changing the paint.  You can read about that here and here. Once we got that change complete, the hallway became the collect-all.  I was sick of it!  I had the perfect wall-hangings, the perfect table, and the perfect things to put on that table right here at Big Creek…it was time to use them!

I’ve shared before the artistic talents of Papa (my step-father) and Daddy-O (my father) {click here to catch up}. I haven’t shared these particular items in great detail, so today’s the day.

Hallway Decor

Papa went through a fish carving phase, and I have several products of that phase.  These gorgeous, hand-carved fish used to hang in the sun room, but we had to take them down to get that room re-framed and painted.  I knew I wanted to display the fish, but the house has been in some state of disrepair or remodeling since we moved in, and I was scared for those poor fishies’ lives.  I wrapped them carefully in soft towels and tissue paper and put them in a plastic tote until this past weekend.  I finally got sick of looking at that tote in my hallway floor, along with all the other junk the hallway seemed to catch, and decided to make the hand-carved fish the focal point of my new hallway decor.

More Hallway Decor

To add to the “handmade Dad” feel (is that a real decorating term? It sure is for me!), I brought in the pieces of Daddy-O’s pottery that I’ve managed to collect over the years. These have been on my dining room table, but I think they look perfect as part of my new hallway decor. Daddy-O actually taught pottery on the college level, and has always enjoyed it.  He’s very good at it, too!  I’m so thrilled to have these pieces of his artwork to display and use.

Who really thinks about hallway decor?  In our last house the hallway was so skinny that no one really noticed the pictures I hung in there, and they collected enough dust to choke a goat.  Now that I have a hallway large enough to be a small bedroom, I realize that hallway decor is important!  Our hallway is the very center of our house, is home to the staircase, and allows entry to the bathroom that guests use.  I needed to think about decorating my hallway! The mess it had become, after all of Coach’s hard work making it pretty, was disgraceful. The hallway has had a very dramatic transformation, and deserved to be done right!

Now, I just need to find a way to cover the water heater in the cranny under the stairs.

I’ve thought about making a curtain or adding some louvered doors (that will be a hard size to find), but I’m just not sure yet what I want to do.  You can probably tell that the floor is still not finished, as well.  That’s coming soon.  Yep, our home is about to become insanely disheveled once again.  We still have lots of floor work in our future, and all my beautiful hallway decor will have to be removed…but only for a short while! I’ll have to lovingly wrap up Papa’s hand-carved fish and Daddy-O’s pottery and provide serious protection for them both…again. Once the floors are finished, I will put all my treasured hallway decor back in place and complete the room, including covering the water heater with something!

The Transformation

It’s still a huge improvement, don’t ya think?

I just love how we’ve revamped our hallway!  It’s like having a whole new room in our home.

X,O,X,O,   Martie

This post is linked up with Merry Monday, Wonderful Wednesday, Thursday Favorite Things, FoodieFriDIY, Sweet Inspirations, and Over the Moon!