Wallcovering Wall Panels- A Renter's Solution

Design Dilemma- you update one part of your room and then you have to update all of it. It's a serious problem people!!

Case in point- my new super awesome patterned wall panels!

I was lucky enough to win a roll of wallcovering from 2Modern several months ago. Since then I've thought about how I would use it in our home.

Deep In The Heart of Texas

You probably know by now that I hail from Louisiana, I went to LSU, and love all things Cajun. But you may not know that I did a lot of growing up in Houston, TX. And you probably don't know that my youngest sister lived most of her life in Houston and even though she now goes to LSU herself her heart belongs to Texas. So when she asked me to make her some Texas wall art I wasn't surprised. A little heart broken but not surprised.

She wanted something rustic, with colors that matched her room, and was in the shape of Texas. Soooo....

Not You're Grandma's Wallpaper

Wallpaper has gotten a bad rap in recent years. I would think manly because when most people think of wallpaper images like this come to mind:

Metallic Butterflies anyone?

Attack of the pink flowers!

It's always sunny in this kitchen

Small Steps toward a Big Change & A Winner!!

Tell me if this has ever happened to you; you want to add or change one element in a room and you end up feeling like you have to change and update everything in the whole room? 

That's kind of the predicament I'm in now. 

A week or so ago I was super excited to find out I had won a roll of wall paper from 2Modern. Score!

Last Friday my wallpaper arrived!

I've spent some time researching ideas of what to do with it. I can't do anything permanent since we're renting but there's lots of other things you can do with wallpaper besides glue it on the wall.

Use it to update the look of your furniture:

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Update the look of cabinets:

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Create a unique unexpected nook:

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Get functional and use wallpaper to cover a cork board for a one of a kind look:

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And my personal favorite faming wallpaper as artwork:

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I'm really leaning towards the idea of framing a large section of my wallpaper behind our bed in the master bedroom since our bedroom could use some pizazz.

Which leads me back to my original issue. If I add this one large focal point to our room I feel like I need to change almost everything else.

The wallpaper is really modern, our bed leans more to traditional styling. I'd love to update our bedding- we've had it forever! I'd love to have a king size bed anyway.

I've touched switching up our bedroom some before. I even threw together a Pinterest Board of some dream items. So could this be the time for a big change? Hmmm... seriously considering it. There are two main things that have been holding me back though.

1. $$ Money $$

2. Time- We're hoping to PCS on out of Altus in the next year. We'll find out whether this is an option or not in October. Crossing our fingers and saying our prayers!!!

And don't worry I didn't forget about the winner of the Coupon Cabin Gift Card Giveaway. Thank you to everyone who entered. The lucky winner is-

Drawing #11,541 PRIVATE

Home Depot Giveaway 10th drawing held by Rachelle Falcon 21 entrants, 1 winner

Winners (1)

 1st: 4

That would be Tam who said:

Tam said... 4

We are in need of some new bathroom towels so I plan on using that Macy's coupon!

Congratulations Tam!!! I've sent you an email. Enjoy your Home Depot Gift Card!!

Thanks again everyone and have a great day!

Woo Hoo!

I don't know about you guys but I enter blog contests all the time. I don't usually win but this time I did! 

I won a roll this Kick @ss wallpaper from 2Modern!

I'm a Fan of theirs on Facebook and they have a contest each Tuesday for a different piece of furniture or accessory from their store. I enter every week (I'm sure my Facebook friends never get tired of thus) and haven't won until now! 

I already have some ideas of where I might put it- if you remember I was dreaming of redoing our bedroom a while back. Could this be the beginning of our redesign?

Or should I use it in our living room? 

Or should I use it to cover a piece of furniture?

The possibilities are endless!!

One for The Kiddos

Woo Hoo it's Wednesday! Poor Wednesday often gets a bad rap sometimes because it's in the middle of the week. But just think, after Wednesday comes Thursday, then Friday (Friday's are awesome) then comes the weekend!! So actually Wednesday isn't all that bad since it's the kind of the precursor to the weekend.


And~ today Con-Man's Big Boy Room is being featured over at Remodelaholic this evening. Go check it out!

But Anyway....


Since I finally finished Sawyer's nursery, and my due date is coming up- I have kids on the brain. I thought sharing a few cool kid worthy design ideas would be fun for today.


Have you seen Todd Oldman's collection of Modern Art Supplies for Kids at Target? I wish wish wish there was a Target near me so I could stock up (for the Con-Man of course). But for now online viewing is the best I have!

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If you've been looking for fun wall decals that are different than the norm and haven't had much luck you need to check out 2Modern's line called WallCandy. They have lots of fun decals to fit any decor including chalk decals, balloon animals, and temporary wallpaper.

What better way to make a kid feel like their room is really their own than with using their initial in the decor? I've been on the lookout for a big letter S or C for my boys. Maybe one of these options will work?

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Have you seen the new Fall Collection at Land Of Nod? There is some seriously cool stuff! There are 3 collections with 3 distinct styles. I wish I was a kid again!! Maybe I could work some of this in to our home decor? Why should the kids have all the fun?

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If your looking for some Kid Friendly DIY projects check out Lowes Creative Ideas for some fun projects.

Does this one look familiar?

Hopefully these ideas will get your creative juices flowing for the little guys and gals in your life; or for yourself!

Rustic Wood Wall Art - Part 1

The last project I have to complete for Con-Man's new Big-Boy room is some wall art. There is a large wall with nothing on it that is screaming for some personality.

I was stuck for a while but inspiration came from this image from Pottery Barn Kids:

I really like the simplicity of the wood anchor. And I thought it would be a nice tie in with Con-Man's vintage desk. Since his room is "Transportation Theme" I thought a car instead of an anchor would be cool.

To get started I scavenged some pallets from the back of an old warehouse and set out to take it apart.

I used a circular saw to cut my pieces off. I've found that trying to pull the boards out with a crow bar is pretty tough; and since I didn't need the full length of the wood this works well. I've also seen people use a Sawz All to cut through the nails if you did need a full board.

Once I got all my pieces cut off I had to even them out. The circular saw was not very accurate. I took the shortest board and traced it to get the measurement for the rest of them. Then used a jig saw to cut them down.

Since the wood is from old pallets I sanded my boards down some to get rod of any splinters, rough edges and dirt. 

Now that I have all my pieces prepped and ready, my next question is how to decorate them? I'm debating on trying to cut out a race car silhouette like the anchor in my inspiration or try to paint it on the wood like this art work was done:

I'm hesitant about cutting the silhouette because my art work is 3 separate pieces instead of 2; how will I attach all my boards together after I cut out the middle? I'm also worried about painting something and having it not come out looking all that great.

See the final product here!!

What do you think? What would you do?

Industrial Art Supply Holder

How was everyone's weekend? We've finally been having some Spring-Like Weather here in OK. I've been taking Con-Man outside as much as possible to take advantage.

I've also been hard at work on a few projects for his new Big-Boy Room. First up is an Industrial Inspired Art Supply Holder!

You may remember that his room already had chalkboard paint on every wall. I've been working on changing most of it, leaving only 1 chalk board wall since he really only used the one wall anyway. He has his Dad's old school desk in his room and we needed a place to store all his art supplies instead of scattering them all around the room.

Enter this:

A drywall mud pan from the hardware store. These are pretty inexpensive and I thought it would be a good addition to his room which is going to have a Car/Vehicle theme. I bought 2 of them and got to work.

I used my Silhouette to cut out 2 templates onto contact paper. (If you don't have a Silhouette but would like to try this project try this technique for cutting out templates). After printing them out I peeled the contact paper apart then stuck it on the front of the mud pan.

Next I used some leftover white paint and applied 2 coats over my template; letting each coat dry in between. 

After the paint dried I sealed it then very carefully peeled off my contact paper.

Next it was time to hang. I drilled 2 holes for screws then used my usual hanging technique to make sure I hung it straight and level. The dry wall pans are not long enough to be able to screw into the studs; so I used plastic wall anchors to make sure the screws won't come out the wall.

Then all done! I'm thinking about painting the outlets black so they don't stand out as much. And I'd love to repaint the desk but I haven't gotten the Hub's permission yet. 

(Can you tell I'm still painting his room?)

This was a fairly quick and easy project and his chalk is finally up off the floor! 

How do you keep your children's art supplies organized? Anyone else have an art center in their kids room?