Sunday Open House: Entryway

I'm really going to try to do this blogging everyday for a month thing again. And I'll take this opportunity during Nanoploblablabla. . . to finally welcome you into the house that we have been living in for almost a year now. Each Sunday I'll take you to a different part of the house but I am cheating today and just letting you into the entryway. This is a picture of the house in August. Can you see Phoebe?

There she is!

So wipe your feet and come on in.

These pictures are all done from the living room looking at the font door. My apologies that I wasn't thinking of this post when snapping away.

You'll notice we did some extra trim work in this small area to really make it interesting. I have no hall closet so I added black hooks for guest to hang coats, hats and bags.

I spent an entire summer hunting down cheep, unique black frames so I could acheive this gallery look. It's an awesome way to welcome people.

And did you notice the small church pews? They might be my most favorite pieces of anything I have in my home. They are from our church. The same church that Matt and I met in when we were six years old. The same church that we fell in love with God and then each other. The same one we married in and dedicated our children in. Our church recently got rid of all of it's beautiful wooden pews and put in chairs for our growing congregation. In the back of our sanctuary sat these little four foot pews and while sitting on them one Sunday morning, I whispered to Matt, "I wonder what the church is planning on doing with these little pews? I would love to buy them." Matt told me, "pipe down and listen to the preaching Devil Woman!". Fast forward two hours I'm saying goodbye to my four and five year old class and making sure they have all their puppets made from lunch sacks and removing the felt Jesus from the flannel board and Matt tells me that the little pews are mine! I mean ours. We refinished them and I am so honored to have them in our home.