cheers guys
welcome back to another diy little makeover vlog so i said when we
did our little half bath remodel that was probably about all the remodels i had left
well not really i lied i keep thinking of things to redo in our new house here and that's just how
i am i love decorating and doing little makeovers and stuff who knows you might see more after this
one but anyways today is the entryway and we are doing a fun little makeover so it's a pretty small
basic little entryway nothing dramatic going on in there but i'm excited to kind of change things
up a little bit give it a little bit of color and dimension and just make it super cozy and inviting
when you walk in if you have watched all of our remodels you know i am a lover of like the boho
style i love like warm fresh bright areas and then with like little touches of color and plants and
so that's exactly what we're doing in the entryway we're doing a little bit of dimension by adding
some aboard and batten i've done boring batten many many times and i love it it just adds like
extra character to the room we're gonna be doing some painting new wall art um decor you know all
the things so i'm so excited to get started here on our entryway makeover but first we need some
they're so good all right so the very first thing we're gonna do here is do the board and batten so
i'll be wrapping the boarded batten just right there in that little corner and then along this
wall here so i'm gonna get my ruler and start putting lines on where i'm going to be making the
wall about three-quarter way even though we have like really tall ceilings right here so it's not
like three-quarter way because it's not like your standard eight foot nine foot walls or whatever
make my line of how far we're going up and then we can start painting so i'm just measuring from the
floor up to 61 inches so that's where i'll end the board and batten i'll just make little marks all
the way around and that will be my guide all right so i got my paint here and i'm literally using
the exact same paint that i painted like all earth from here in our house um because it's kind of the
boring vanity and it's going to be a white board and batting i didn't want it to be like different
whites white is not tinted it is straight out of the can pure white paint so i figured
i'm doing white might as well just keep it all the same so that it's all the same color all
white trim all bored and batten will be the same white like everything realized there's not much
paint left though so i'll probably be able to get started and then we'll have to go get more veins
the nice thing about painting this board & batten area is because it's the exact same color as the
trim we don't have to rip trim off because if i get paint on the trim it's the same color
we pick up the pieces and they make a mess the shirts increases
i ran out of pain i just saw this little area left and i ran out so that's okay i mean we have to do
a second coat anyways um it just sucks because i was really hoping to get at least the first going
on but that's how it goes we went and got more paint at home depot and everything has two coats
on it now so we can start the board and pattern so we are literally using the exact same trim that we
use in our house it's three and a half inch mdf board and we had a ton of leftover when we were
doing all the trim work here in our home and so it's nice we really didn't have to go buy much
everything's like already kind of painted i mean i do have to do some touch up but it's pretty sweet
we can just kind of roll with what we already had it's like the best when you have everything
so this little itty bitty area is finished we just put the three boards up with our nail gun
easy peasy not doing anything here so now we can do this wall
when we're in an iron things they're at least that's just a couple things so if you kind
us out we just start we just took middle from each section so first we did the middle board
and then we took the middle of these two and found middle and then middle from those
two and found middle so that's how we did those measurements so that it all was even
all right so we got the trim up top we got all the batten
board batten pieces whatever you want to call it vince is drilling a hole in our door
oh
oh boy don't break my door so we picked up one of these little people since we don't have in
a window or anything up here and we're just not wanting to like replace our front door
yet since we just moved here so maybe one day we'll do that but for now we just bought this
little peephole thing so we can look out um from our front door um we do have a camera system
however sometimes it's nice to just kind of peek out once in a while so i'm putting a
little itty bitty shelf up on the top of this i'm gonna be staining this but literally it's
just a very narrow like two and a half inch little like shelf all the way around and i
wanted to incorporate like some natural wood elements because i just love natural wood so i
figured this would be a nice little way to kind of incorporate that so what i'm going to be staining
the top of the like the little shelf area is the early american by minwax
there they all are stained with early american it's such a pretty like light mellow warm
wood tone i love like staining wood because i just love how
like the stain just pulls out like all the different character of the wood all right
i'm gonna throw a quick clear coat on that what i just stained this is what i use polycrylic it
is a game changer i've been using this for years and years and years and i'm just doing the clear
sun this protects the wood and then it also make it easier to clean when you have like raw wood
it's kind of hard to always like wipe it down and clean it so when you put a nice clear coat
on it it's nice and smooth and easy to clean so i just went through filled all the holes of the
trim that we popped in with the nail holes here and i always use this plastic wood get it at home
depot it's the dap it's fantastic all right so we're gonna run to at home really quick and look
and see what they got for some items i'm just looking for some decor items for the entryway
um i was gonna go check out hobby lobby but they're closed on sunday so at home it is
it was a success did you see my cart yeah they had so much cute like little like bohemian southwest
type decor which i love so much and like if you guys have ever been to one of those stores you'll
know what i mean like it's just aisles and aisles and aisles of furniture and decor and pillows
rugs like i mean they have like everything you can think of like it's crazy how big the store is
so we definitely succeeded i bought more than i probably need i always do that when i go shopping
so i find a bunch of stuff i like i just buy it and then i return what i don't need after i
design what i'm working on so love that store that was one store we never had in minnesota
but if we did it was in the cities which was like two hours away from me so i
would have never went there anyways back in my gross paint clothes um
but now we're doing some more painting and i'm painting our front door so i just got
it all cleaned and we took the knobs off and all the things so good prepped and ready for
painting and it's kind of a dramatic paint color um but i'm excited all right you guys check it out
we're going black so because like this little entryway area has so many doors in it there's
the closet the bathroom i mean there's two at like there's a lot going on with the white doors so i'm
like fronto we're gonna change it up so that's why we're going black and i'm so excited to
see how this looks i've never had a black door so just first for everything i'm going to start from
the top i do the little squares first and then i always do like the outside after i do the squares
first coat is on it's gonna need two definitely maybe even three
gotta love painting with dark dark colors especially black all right you guys so i bought
some really cute little coat hooks from amazon i have to show you them they're just like these
tiny little wooden pegs it comes with like a six pack i'll leave the link below but yeah they're
just like super modern and cute so the screw is on and you literally twist this up it's craziness
all right that's probably good there it is it's angled yeah cute so we went to target because i
wanted to do like a mural kind of above the long wall there on on top of like the border baton area
so i picked up these really big 16x20 picture frames from target so if you have followed along
and all our room remodels here on our home since moving to colorado you know i get all my prints
from etsy i love etsy for prints they have so many designs and you can get
any size you need them and it's just like perfect sporting local people too which is always great
so highly recommend if you're looking for any type of prints or a wall art for your home go to etsy
you download them you have them forever you can make as many prints as you want check these out
you guys so these are prints from like arizona i absolutely loved the color tone of these and
just did the pictures like they just like called me look at this she's got it in this frame i
freaking love these photos like they're just so pretty there they are they're all framed
i just wanted to show you them before i hang them it comes as a three-piece set so
they just they're beautiful so i just went to hobby lobby and i found some more goodies
and they had some really great 50 off sales on like wall decor floral all the things so
i actually ended up not spending too much here but i just wanted to show you a few things i picked up
i just bought a whole bunch of stuff i liked and i'll probably return half of it that's all i roll
first i found this really cute wall macrame hanger and it was only well it was 17.99 but
it was half off so it was like eight dollars it's so cute on this really cute macrame planter holder
which i absolutely love this was only ten dollars and i think it was half off because it's a wall
hanging so it's like crazy cheap and then for this guy i found this little floral thing to
put in it half off i don't even know how much this was oh 10.99 and it was half off and then
they had this cute little cactus for half off and this was like yeah eight dollars and then i found
this other cute little like a faux planter tiny you can hang it um 13.99 and have off
and then i found these really pretty decorative beads that were half off i think there were 20
dollars got them for 10. and they're just kind of pretty i just thought maybe hang them i don't know
we'll see pretty sure i will not be using all this um however i just bought it all and we're going to
see how it looks once i kind of get everything decorated all right you guys it's done i love it
love it love it love it like love it it's like nice pretty simple updates and it's just enough
to make that a little area just like perfect so before i show you let me remind you what it
looked like before we started this little makeover pretty boring right but not anymore check this out
you guys i am so so obsessed and i just absolutely love this whole transformation i mean a lot of
simple little pieces just really make a really big impact in this area the black door which
you guys i was scared to paint our front door black like i don't know i just i've never had
like back doors i'm just vibing with all the black and a black front door why not you guys just do it
if you like it do it right it's just paint and then my second layer piece of course are these
beautiful wall art love the tone and the feel of them and then our new board and batten here just
gives that nice separation to make that perfect look of like a gallery wall so i absolutely love
it and i'm so happy we added this wood piece on top it just brings a little bit more warmth in
here with like all the white and the black um i just love warm natural tones and i thought that
was perfect and it added just a nice little pop here can't have a space without some plants and
because there's no light here we had to of course do a fake plant there but love it so um i've kind
of already went over a lot of these items so i'll leave the link in the description of all the items
i don't know if i'll be able to find like all these items from at home and hobby lobby i'll
see i'll look for the links if i can find them online and you can definitely check it out but if
they're not description i couldn't find the links okay so i hope you found this video inspiring and
gave you some ideas if you are remodeling your entryway and this is a small little entryways
but you can always make a big impact on small areas it's perfect so thank you guys so much
for watching if you have any questions of course comment below and we'll see you guys in the next
vlog i have no idea what i'll be remodeling that but whatever it is you know i'll be vlogging it so
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