#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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#THECOATSHOME: GALLERY WALL

Our living room and kitchen are where we spend the most time in our house, so as you can imagine those two are two of the most decorated rooms in our house so far. Decorating and styling our living room has been a bit of a challenge for us since we've moved in since it is shaped different than most living rooms. Our living room is a good size in length, but with only one entrance to it, so we have rearranged our furniture a couple of times + added furniture, and I think we are finally to a place where we are happy with our living room arrangement!

We've added a few pieces here and there and then we decided that on our open wall that we wanted to do a gallery wall and I shared some ideas that we were leaning towards, here. So after shopping at FOUR different Targets we finally had all the frames we needed. Once we went all over middle Tennessee (literally) in search of these frames the fun part began, picking out the pictures to order. It was easy picking our pictures and even easier using Mpix to print them. What makes them even better, was when they showed up on my doorstep the very next day. I have only heard good things about Mpix, but since I was ordering such large prints I was somewhat skeptical about the clarity of them, but once again I was incredibly impressed with the quality of each photo. 

It is nearly impossible to get a good picture of the frames during the day with three big windows on the opposite wall, but I wouldn't trade those windows and all that natural light for anything! We actually hung curtains in our living room last year but took them down when we painted the room and just decided to not put them back up because it took away too much of the natural light. 

Matthew did a great job hanging these and we are extremely happy with how our gallery wall turned out. Every time we add something to our walls it makes it feel a little more "homey" and like everything is really coming together with our house.

  Here is a picture of the other half of our living room

and a picture from our kitchen looking into our living room, to give you a better idea of the layout. 

Source List  Living Room Paint Color: Sherwin Williams Agreeable Gray Kitchen Paint Color: Sherwin Williams Waterscape Rugs Recliners Wall Clock (found at a local store in Nashville, but similar ones, here or here.) Lamps (Kirklands, a few years ago) Floor Lamp Shelf Ladder Frames Prints Other posts from this series can be found, here.

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#THECOATSHOME: MASTER BEDROOM PLANS

When it comes to decorating we always put our master bedroom last. We're the only ones who see it, so it has just never been at the top of our decorating/house updates list. We've been talking about how and when we want to decorate our bedroom a little lately, and we have both decided that we would like to invest in a nice bedroom suite. One that we will use for many, many years to come and one that is made of good quality, and unfortunately those have a pretty high price tag. So we've browsed around and have a good idea of what we want and know around what we need to save in order to purchase those items.

We actually bought curtains a few months ago to hang up in here but then changed our minds so those are going in our guest bedroom lol. We have a lot of room to work with in our master bedroom and we keep throwing around ideas of how we want to set everything up. Here is what our bedroom looks like right now.

I have always wanted to hang a wedding picture above our bed and then hang something smaller on either side. Well I finally pulled the trigger and ordered this picture for above our bed. We decided to go on and hang it where we will want it once our headboard is on our bed, so that's why it might look a little high right now lol. We decided to go with Keepsake because they do all of the work for you. You just upload your picture, pick your frame, and then place your order and they will deliver it right to your doorstep! It literally took me all of 10 minutes and it delivered super quick. They even have an app, which makes it even easier.

I chose the white gallery frame in the 24x16 and absolutely love it. The quality is fantastic and I could not be happier with it.

And here is what we have in mind when we do buy new furniture. We both love the cream furniture and that bed is just beautiful! I would love to find some mercury glass lamps for our bedside tables as well.

and here is one last picture of our room now, Reagan wanted to be in the picture ;)

Try Keepsake out for yourself (highly recommended!) and use code coats15 to get 15% off your order. You won't be disappointed! 

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#THECOATSHOME: SPRAY PAINTING OUR CHANDELIER

When it comes to updating/upgrading things around our home we have to pick and choose where we want to splurge and where we want to save. Our light fixtures are on our list to upgrade in our home, but we also know that they are not cheap by any means. So in the meantime we decided to give our dining room chandelier a little update....

I forgot to take an closer picture of it before we took it down, but here is a picture of it. Basically, this is what it looked like before.

and here is a picture after we spray painted it and let it dry for a couple of days.

Total Cost: $7

Painters Tape - Already had on hand

Sandpaper - Already had on hand

Spray Paint - $7

We covered the entire thing in spray paint and then let it dry for 24 hours, and then went back in and spray painted a few areas that we missed the first time, and let it dry for 24 more hours before we hung it back up. The hardest part was taking it down and putting it back up, I left that to my dad and Matthew, ha!

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#THECOATSHOME : POWDER ROOM IDEAS

Our powder room is on our list of things to take care of in 2017, and although I don't think it will be a hard project, I do think it will take a little time to get it the way we want it.

Right now there is wall paper in there. It's a tan/cream with palm trees on it. It's definitely not our style, and doesn't really match the rest of the home. 

Actually some of the wallpaper had started peeling up a little (I guess from being there over some time) and I thought it was going to come off easily like our kitchen wallpaper, but it didn't. It looks like it's going to be really hard to get off, and honestly, I just don't want to peel/scrape off anymore wallpaper. So I have been looking at new wallpaper options. I actually really LOVE small powder rooms with wallpaper (only if it's cute wallpaper). It's kinda like a surprise when you open the door lol. 

I love the clean and simple look of wainscoting on the bottom half of the wall and then wallpaper on the top half. I think the white just really help to brighten up a small space. Here are some ideas of what I'm thinking...

Not really diggin' the lights, but I love the wallpaper. A beautiful mix of neutrals in a small place, it's perfect.

 

I love the wainscoting in this one, and that wallpaper is adorable.

Our powder room isn't quite big enough for this, but again, I love the wallpaper. I also think it would be fun to find a cute/unique mirror for above our pedestal sink. 

 I haven't really put in a whole lot of research on wallpapers yet, but here are a couple that I have found that I love...

I think this one would look gorgeous with the white wainscoting at the bottom. 

I'm also kinda obsessed with this one

I know there area ton of wallpaper options out there to choose from and that's exciting to think about. If you have purchased wallpaper recently, please share where, you know I'm always looking for the best deal! ;)

All powder room ideas can be found on my Pinterest :)

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#THECOATSHOME : PAINTING OUR KITCHEN

If you remember from our home tour, when we first moved in our kitchen had awful wallpaper in the kitchen. Matthew and I were not fans of it at all and both agreed it needed to come down asap. Well one afternoon a couple of months after we moved in we decided to start taking it down. Thankfully, it came down very easily, unlike our dining room. We had all the wallpaper down in about 30 minutes and a couple of days later we had the first coat of gray on it. 

When looking at paint colors for our home, Matthew and I both decided that we wanted to paint every room, with an exception of a few guest rooms and guest bathroom, in Agreeable Gray by Sherwin Williams. We wanted a light and neutral color so that we could add color with decor pieces and not have to change the paint color every few years to go along with new decor pieces that we found and liked.

Fast forward a couple of weeks, I was too busy to get the second coat of gray on the kitchen, but we went over to our neighbors house for something and we were in their kitchen and they had it painted the prettiest color. I loved it. but didn't think Matthew would like it so I didn't say anything. Well Matthew loved the color and said he thought we should paint our kitchen that color or something very similar, and I was 100% on board with his plan, or so I thought. When it came time to pick out the color for our kitchen I kept having second thoughts on the color. I was afraid it was too bold for a kitchen or that I would get tired of it, since we are literally in there everyday. So we went to Sherwin Williams and got two samples. One sample was Sea Salt and the other was Waterscape. I put both on the wall and let it dry and stared at it for a good hour, and eventually told Matthew that I liked both but he was going to have to make the final decision on which color we painted the kitchen, and he chose Waterscape! The Sea Salt was a beautiful color, but it was just a few shades different from the gray we already had and we wanted something a little more than that. So back to Sherwin Williams we went to buy a gallon of Waterscape, and the rest is history. Enjoy the before and after pictures of our kitchen below :) 

Before

After

Before

After

And a couple of more pictures of our kitchen...

(Ignore the painters tape in the hallway ;) I'm hoping to take care of that soon. It will be Agreeable Gray)

We are so happy to have another room checked off our "house project list"! The only thing left to do in the kitchen is to add new flooring and light fixtures, but we aren't even going to think about those two things until later next year. We love the paint, and it really does make a huge difference. We also plan on using this color in one of the guest bedrooms and guest bathroom.

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#THECOATSHOME : PAINTING OUR FRONT DOOR

When we moved into our home back in January we both agreed we didn't really care for the front door color. It was a dark gray but has faded over the years and there were scratches on it. It wasn't top priority but we knew it was something we wanted to complete sooner rather than later.

We thought about different colors over the past few months but never nailed anything down. I didn't really think Matthew would want to go for a bright or bold color, and I didn't really want anything too crazy either. We both wanted something simple and classy. I threw out the option of painting our door black. I looked at tons of black front doors and loved the simplicity of the color, and most wreaths would go with the color black...gotta think about these kinds of things! ;) Well Matthew wasn't too keen on the color black and knew that I liked some other colors as well so we kept looking at colors. Well when Blair posted the color that they painted their front door I loved it. Pretty, bright and classy! I casually showed Matthew the color one night after dinner, not thinking too much of it, and he loved it, and said that was the color for our front door. I'll admit, I was a little shocked, but excited he liked the color too and that we both agreed on it, so that was our color! We decided to paint our door over Labor Day Weekend.

We knew that taking our front door off would let in a lot of heat, obviously, so we started around 8 that morning in an attempt to try and beat the heat. Thankfully it was very sunny that morning so I painted in the open sun to dry the door quickly, and it worked! We decided to paint both sides of our door, and we are SO happy with it. We love being able to see the color on the inside as well. That pop of color in our entryway is so fun. After painting both sides, in total, we probably had our front door off for about 2 hours, not too bad!

Last year on Labor Day Weekend we gave our dining room table a makeover and this year we painted our front door...my inner Joanna Gaines is liking this tradition ;)

Before I stared painting I wiped down the entire door, both sides, with a damp rag. After it dried I sanded both sides lightly. I used a sanding sponge similar to these. I then wiped off both sides with a damp rag again, and then let it dry completely before I started painting.

I was very nervous for some reason when it came time to paint our door, I guess because I knew if I messed it up and it didn't turn out well then it would be the first thing everyone saw until we got a new front door...so just a little pressure! I looked up a ton of tutorials and YouTube videos, but really it wasn't hard at all. Once I got to painting it just kinda flowed and worked out great.

 I will say, one thing I learned, is to use a small roller on the detailed areas. I started out using a brush, but decided the small roller worked better. I used a small roller from Lowe's like this one. I used a regular sized roller on the rest of the door, and I think that helped with making sure it was all even and smooth looking! I did two coats on each side and I think that was plenty. 

I painted all sides of the door, except the top, since no one will see that area anyways! I used the small roller for the sides as well. Worked like a charm!

I know you can tape off your hardware (door handles) and such but since I despise taping anything we just took off our door handles until the paint was completely dry. It didn't take long and I didn't have to be extra careful in those area.

Our front door color is Benjamin Moore Wythe Blue, and we could not be happier with it!

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#THECOATSHOME : GUEST BEDROOM IDEAS

I started this little series for our home a few months ago, and I am excited to add updates and ideas to it over time. 

As soon as we bought our house my mind was racing with decorating ideas and I was using Pinterest more than ever before. We are very lucky and have three guest bedrooms. We love the extra space and absolutely love being able to open up our home and host people. With those three guest bedrooms we have decided to give each room a theme. I love decorating and finding new creative ideas, so this was right up my alley.

We decided on three different themes and now we are slowly working on them! This isn't a project we want finished next week, we would love that, but it's just not necessary. This will be something we do over the years and when we find good deals on things. I want to find the perfect (& cutest) pieces, so this doesn't need to be rushed. So what are the themes?

- Guest bedroom # 1: My office.

This room will be more of a "girly" room as Matthew likes to call it lol. I guess that's fitting because my Pinterest board for this room is called "Girl Cave" ;) 

In this room we already have my desk, computer and new computer chair, as well as a twin bed. You can see a little glimpse of the room as it is right now, here.

All pictures can be found here.

- Guest bedroom #2: Coastal Theme.
I have somehow talked Matthew into decorating our second guest bedroom with all things coastal. At first he was 100% against it, but I kept talking about it and showed him some ideas that I have found and now he is on board. Woo hoo! It's been fun looking at different ideas together and finding a few projects we both could do for this room. This guest bedroom is connected to our guest bathroom, so we'll add a few coastal touches in there as well. Also, over the years we'll pick up shells and sand from our trips to bring back for this room. I already have some sand from our honeymoon in Mexico that will go in there. I'm so excited!

All pictures can be found here. 

- Guest bedroom #3: Tri-Star Theme.
We had this room planned out before we even moved into our house. Born and raised in Tennessee, I have a lot of pride for our state, and I may or may not be in love with everything tri-star. Matthew is a big fan of it, too, and was actually the one to come up with this theme. There are so many cute ideas and pieces on Etsy, Pinterest, and of course, local shops in and around Nashville. We plan on adding a wood pallet wall in there one day and it will match perfectly with our new furniture we bought for that room. We also plan on adding small pieces from Murfreesboro, Cookeville, Johnson City, and Chattanooga...since we lived in Murfreesboro and Cookeville, and Matthew's brothers are in Johnson City and Chattanooga.

I am really excited to watch these rooms evolve over the years, and all the different pieces we'll find for each room. If you have any ideas for these rooms, send them my way! To see any posts about our home on social media search the hashtag, #TheCoatsHome

More posts from this series:
#TheCoatsHome: Living Room Ideas
#TheCoatsHome : New Furniture

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