Long time no see...

So, I guess that just a few weeks into this blogging thing, I already neglected it a bit. I'm going to blame it on house projects, starting school again, training, and getting sick. And then, you guys are going to forgive me and continue reading. Right? Right.

My vision for the blog is posting 3 or more times a week. I'm going to make a conscious effort to do that. The problem with that is that we don't always do 3 blog worthy updates a week... so here's what you can plan to see in the upcoming weeks- Two or more posts a week about house or personal things and at least one post about things I find around the internet that I love. I think that I'm going to focus on things inside and out of the Haney House. Sure, the house projects are fun..but we don't have the time or money to do three of them a week. The great thing is, our lives are just as fun and just as full. So expect to get a view into Haney House life as well from now on. :)

So, first things first... we are still LOVING our map wall. It just adds so much pizzazz to our living room. We can't get enough of it! We have had a few people over since it went up, and it is such a conversation piece! The continents are still holding up beautifully!

But....it got my brain working...and made me realize that we really needed something else in the living room to pull it together. In the last post, I talked about how we had some fun ideas for the built ins, but when it boiled down to it, we couldn't figure out how to execute those ideas because of the strange shape of them. Here's the picture of what they look like (now white). I mean, do we have the paint stop in the middle part? Or keep going and just have it stop on an open wall? We were so confused!

So, I did my research and found this post (on my favorite DIY blog ever) CLICK HERE

And I fell in love. I was still nervous, but I was in love. You see, this room is designed for a child. Would it be childish to do that in our living room? Would it stand out like a sore thumb? What color do we pull because our map wall is SO FULL OF SO MANY COLORS? I told Rob that when I get an idea in my head like this, I feel like a football player before a big game. I can't stop! I just NEED to execute my idea! So, I quickly typed "interior painted door" in the Pinterest search bar, saw that obviously it is a pretty crazy idea because there were so few... and said, "FORGET IT, I'm going to Lowe's."

I searched through all of the Pantone colors (because I never used Pantone before, but they are ALL OVER the crafting world right now) and decided on this: (Pantone Emerald AKA the 2013 Color of the Year - WHAT WHAT!!)

I bought a sample (not my most intelligent moment) because I thought that one little sample would cover the door that was previously white. Well, after one coat, it looked like this...which was obviously not what I had in mind:

So..back to Lowe's we went! We purchase a quart of this stuff. I came home, and I immediately covered it again. It still left a little to be desired, so I put one last coat on last night before bed time, and it did the trick! Our door is now bright and BOLD! It is EXACTLY what I envisioned! Hysterically enough, it isn't a color that you find on our map wall often, but I know that by painting a few things and placing them around our living room, it will bring it all together. So, without further ado...here's our new room in a few different views! (Please excuse the terribly executed built ins in the upcoming pictures. Come back on Wednesday to see what we've done to decorate those! :)

As always, thank you for coming by to visit and learn about our little home projects. We are BY NO MEANS experts. We do what makes us happy. After listening to an interview that Sherry of Young House Love did with Jonathan Adler, I decided to choose 3 words that I want people to think EVERY time they come into our house. Our three words are happy, quirky, and cozy. That is FINALLY becoming a reality in this living room. :) 

Which three words describe your home? Would you ever consider painting a door a fun color? Are you as in love with this color as I am? Now it is time for me to to go so that I can paint everything else in my entire house this color. ;) Happy MLK, Jr. day!!! :)