A Pallet wall

Hi Everyone! The weekend went by so quickly, why is that? The sun was out today and it was gorgeous!! I opened the office/computer room/paper crafting room/the room where Jim has only enough room for his computer and himself window and Jynx has spent the day there. She is still there, actually. The windows in this room face west so it is a nice place for a Jynx to be in the afternoons. (oh I do feel bad about Jim's limited space in here, but for now we don't have many other options. There is a whole upstairs waiting for us to do something with it, but...)

I mentioned on the facebook page Jim had completed a project  in the living room! I am going to share it with you. I am still completely blown away by how it changes the whole room! Let's go back in time a little bit though, roughly 3 years. You see this wall has been somewhat of a thorn from the start.

We sanded, primed, painted, decorated, etc.

It looked like this.

this pic was taken LONG before blogging, don't mind the clutter

or that LOVELY front door

If you've been following for awhile you know that I painted the fireplace

on our first Thanksgiving in the house!

Here is the painted fireplace.

See the crock in the above picture? At some point the paint started cracking in the area of the crock. 

I believe this photo was before the paint started cracking, but once it started it was obvious!! and I began decorating around the cracks to conceal them. :)

When I brought the winter/Valentine's stuff down I didn't rush anything else up. The mantel was bare and it was Jim's day off. He decided to check out what I had been hiding and the checking out process quickly turned into this:

Look at that spot to the left of mirror. AWESOME!!!!

This led to conversation, and ideas, and conversation, and ideas...

and then to this:

and then................... to this:

pallet wood to the rescue...

Now lets add some decor shall we?

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This one was taken with my cell phone. Not sure why I didn't take any with the camera when the lights were on. (thank goodness for facebook huh?)

What do you think?

I can't get over how it changes the look.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will leave a comment!

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