I am really excited to be wrapping this up! For one, I am ready to switch my focus to the outdoors. And two, I am excited to get all this mess cleaned up in the main areas of our home.

I had started out just wanting to plank this focal wall and get a console, but the project, as many of mine do, soon morphed into transoms, board and batten, a painted sliding door, and a freshly painted command center wall. Which means my timeline also morphed into something much longer than I was anticipating šŸ˜‰

Before

Although I would say this project started with the planked wall, it really started back in October when I fell in love with this beautiful, super budget-friendly mirror from Target. I knew the perfect place for it, and it became my motivation to get this focal wall done.

The Console

I began shopping for consoles, but I had specific needs in mind.

  1. I wanted it to have doors or drawers so as to not be open underneath;
  2. it had to be a good width to fit the proportions of the wall (I was shooting for 48ā€³); and
  3. I didnā€™t want it to be too deep, as the wall to the right is not very wide. I didnā€™t want it sticking out super far into the hallway and look weird from the foyer.

Shockingly, I had trouble finding something that would fit all of these specs while also being the style I was looking for while also being in my budget. So naturally, I began sketching out plans to make one. In my head, I wanted some drawers. But boy do drawers freak me out. Maybe not 1 or 2, but I was envisioning at least 4 drawers: 2 high and 2 wide. The room for error would be small. I just wasnā€™t in the mood for that kind of stress.

So then I had one of those ā€œaha!ā€ moments? You know, the kind where you get suddenly excited and canā€™t wait to tell someone? My husband was thrilled. He jumped up and high fived me.

Ok, maybe I was the only one that was excited, but heyā€¦ thatā€™s his loss. I knew this would be perfect for an IKEA rast. You know, the most hacked piece of IKEA furniture? Heck, Iā€™ve hacked 2 myself: my media console in my living room and our nightstands.

I thought I was all hacked out, but this take gave me energy. And quite frankly, I think itā€™s my favorite one yet! Check out the full project plan here.

If nothing else, the fresh paint definitely helps the hall feel better. But Iā€™m excited to add more pictures to the ledge, and to have a better place for seasonal decor on the console, as I am still in tweaking mode.

As part of this project, I also finished my long-planned interior transoms over both the doorway to the kitchen and to the foyer. Iā€™m also working on getting more pictures up. I love these simple frames from Target. Iā€™m using them for a collage wall Iā€™m working on in our living room.

Iā€™ll add details to these projects in my future posts. Next up will be how I hacked the rast.

Happy weekend!


Sources

Console |Mirror | Lamp | Shade | Vase | Pear | Frames | Rug

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