Back in December I had an idea. I knew I would be travelling a lot during the holidays and would not be at home and so I didn't want to go all out decorating my apartment. But I did want to have a little holiday flair. I thought it would be nice to have some sort of art or wall hanging that I could change with the seasons and/or decorate for various holidays or other events. Wouldn't that be nice?
So I thought about what that could look like and here's what I came up with. A window. An old window. Refurbished, painted, some hooks added. Hmm...
A trip to my favorite salvage yard yielded the perfect specimen. One side was this gorgeous blue (it's still that color, I only re-did the boring white side), and the other was white.
The window sat for a while in my apartment before I did anything to it, which is why I just finished it a few weeks ago, but once the work started, it was pretty quick and fun. The only part that really wasn't very fun was scraping the old white paint off the frame. But it was very satisfying to be able to sand the raw wood after removing all the paint, and then repainting it. I decided to leave the inside near the panes of glass white for some depth effect.
Here you can see the boring white side of the window before I started working on it. Notice, however, the very un-boring hardware that really adds to the character of it:
Scraping and painting...
Then, since it was no longer the holidays (these things do tend to take some time for me to get to...), I set out to find things I wanted to use to decorate it. I took some time and kept a look-out for fun little items that spoke to me in my regular daily wanderings. I really like the final product.
Here you can see it in context with the other things on that particular wall:
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I love checking out this blog and finding a new posting! And this is really creative by the way. You must have inherited creative genes...
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