#THECOATSHOME: PLATE WALL

Our plate wall is finished and I love it! I have been talking about doing a plate wall since we got married and finally got around to doing it. 

I started off with taping paper plates to our dining room wall to decide on the layout. They ended up staying up a little longer than I wanted because things kept coming up and I wanted to make sure that was exactly the layout I wanted, and it was! After a lot of research, I decided on and used these plate hangers, and so far they have held up perfectly.

When it came time to hang the actual plates up I laid them all out on the floor with the same layout and numbered them. I also numbered the paper plates on the wall and then added one plate at a time. 

It took a lot of measuring and hopping off the chair to stand back and look after each individual plate was added, but it was worth it. 

And since I never got around to sharing the other wall in our dining room, here it is. Matthew gifted me this beautiful sign for Valentine's Day this year and we both love it! It's a Bob Dylan song and the theme song from Parenthood. #parenthoodforever

I am happy to say that after a little over two years in our home we now have one room completely finished (excluding floors, hardwood floors will come one day)! To see what our dining room looked like when we moved in and all of the updates we have made since then go here, here, and here.

These plates are just a few of the many that were used at our wedding almost three years ago. I am so happy to have them up and the sweet memories that they hold.

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#THECOATSHOME: POWDER ROOM MAKEOVER

I am finally getting a chance to share our powder room makeover. I posted our powder room inspiration here, and we ended up going with one of the wallpapers from that post. I am so happy with how it turned out, but I would be completely remiss not to give all credit to my dad for this project. My dad did the wallpaper and it looks amazing. I tried to do it myself, because how hard can it be, right? Joke was on me, for sure. Not only was it difficult, but our powder room is incredibly small, as most are. 

I fell in love with this wallpaper and knew it had to go somewhere in our home. I thought it would be perfect for our powder room, since it's a smaller room and thought this would make it pop.

Here is the before - what it looked like when we moved in. Tan paint, textured wallpaper on the bottom half with a tropical border in the middle- connecting the paint and wallpaper. It wasn't completely awful, but it wasn't something I would have loved to have in our home forever.

There was also a plastic paper towel holder on the wall behind the toilet (you can see the holes in the wall below) when we moved in...not sure why they chose that location, but we took the paper towel holder down the weekend we moved in.

And the after!!!! We ended up picking up this mirror  at Bed, Bath and Beyond and love it. 

 Also, can I just say that it was pretty difficult to take pictures of such a small area!

I love the way it turned out! Wallpaper can make such huge difference. In the future, we plan on hanging a few shelves on the back wall, above the toilet, and adding a couple of prints on them.

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FALL | HOME TOUR 2016

I have had so much fun decorating our home for fall, and I am really loving having some seasonal decor back up. It's our first fall in our home, and I am ready for the fall weather to move in and some cozy nights doing nothing but watching a good movie/tv show with my favorite guy in the world, with our fireplace going!

Most of our decor is the same as last years, with a few newer pieces added in, thanks to Target's dollar section. I don't know about y'all but the dollar section just keeps getting better and better! I decorated for fall over Labor Day Weekend, that's what I did last year and it just worked for us. I have never had a lot of Halloween decorations before, but like I said the dollar section was really good this year! I picked up a few Halloween pieces and I'll put those out in early October and then take them down after Halloween and just let my fall stuff stay up until it's time to decorate for Christmas. September-December is my favorite time to decorate! 

I'll start in the living room...the vases on the mantel with the flowers in them are from Hobby Lobby a few years ago

The leaves banner is from Target's dollar section last year!

My favorite mugs that were used in our wedding as decor on our sweetheart table are from Anthropologie. The leaves on top of the mantel are from Wal-Mart.

The two vases on the floor are from our wedding and they are from Kirklands. I filled them with pumpkin string lights from Target's dollar section. The painting is one that I painted last year at my best friend's bachelorette party. I used my iPhone on these next two pictures...

I added a few fall touches to our bookcase

 I am in LOVE with the small pie dishes from Target's dollar section.

 Matthew's anniversary painting I gave him for our one year wedding anniversary, and our anniversary present from my parents. 

 This adorable block set is absolutely appropriate to have out this time of the year. Hail State!

On our end tables I added simple fall pieces from Target dollar section over the past few years.

Next up is the kitchen...I debated whether or not to share all of these pictures because we are still in the process of painting, so that's why there is still painters tape up and the outlet plates are still off, but I love looking back on my blog posts and seeing what things used to look like after we have finished up projects. It's fun seeing the changes we have already made so far and I can't wait to see the rest in the future. So just overlook all of the unfinished areas right now ;) 

This adorable sign is from Hobby Lobby last year, but I think I saw it again there the other day!

Most of the fall decor in our kitchen is from Target's dollar section. 

 The flowers are from Hobby Lobby.

 My mom gave me this thankful sign a couple of years ago.

I even added a few fall touches to our coffee bar

 I just discovered Rae Dunn a few months ago and I have quickly grown to love it. Whenever I pop in Home Goods I search for it and this past weekend I found this adorable coffee canister for less than $15...I couldn't grab it quick enough! I have seen this same coffee canister going for $50+ on Ebay and other websites, so I was one happy shopper.

 I found these adorable napkin rings in the Target dollar section. 

I added one small piece in our hallway, just to add some color...even though the different colored painters tape is enough color at the moment ;)

And here is our entryway...

and last but not least, our new wreath...

I knew after we painted our front door that a beautiful cotton wreath would be perfect for the fall and I could not love it more! You can find this wreath HERE, and I'll post more about it tomorrow!

Fall | Apartment tour 2015

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SIGNET SEALED - NASHVILLE PRINT

I was so excited when Sarah offered to send me this adorable Nashville print for our Tri-Star guest bedroom. Not only is it adorable but it fits in with our theme for that guest bedroom SO well. 

I love everything on it, so many details! From the hockey stick, to the Ryman, to the batman building. It is all so cute and I think it shows some of Nashville's local favorites!

Coasters // Nashville print 

Nashville print // "Home" Pillow 

Not only does Sarah have tons of different city prints, but she has adorable mugs! We have some friends over in Memphis and this would be an adorable gift for them. Christmas is coming up...116 days if you're counting ;) so go on and get your orders in now. You can never be too ahead on your Christmas shopping.

You can find Sarah on Instagram, here. Facebook, here. Etsy, here. Her website, here.

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SIGNET SEALED - NASHVILLE PRINT