Entryway Revealed.

We finally finished the entryway with the wallpaper, sprayed painted green frames, and console table decor (for now). I'm still planning on going antiquing next month to look for something for the entryway. However, for now, I love it! Here's what it looks like:

We also spent all night yesterday rearranging everything in our master bedroom. It looks much better now, but still looks a little bit messy so I'll post up pictures a little later.

In other news, we just watched the Academy Awards and I wanted to quickly say that below are a couple of my favorite looks from the red carpet:

Love Love Love this Louis Vuitton dress. She looked absolutely darling in this tiered peplum waist dress with the bow brooch at the hip. I'm also obsessed with the peplum silhouette. I just think it's so flattering on everyone!

Although I didn't think her Givenchy dress was anything spectacular, she looks good in it. What I love most about her look, though, is her hair and makeup. She looks so sleek and glamourous, a little cute, but somehow also edgy. It was a great combination.

This is not a good picture of how Gwyneth looked, but I thought she looked amazingly statuesque in this clean Tom Ford dress with cape detail.

Entryway Update.

So we painted the chalkboard wall (4 coats!) and I spray painted the empty frames and coatrack green. Here are some pictures of the process and what it looks like now. I'm still waiting for the wallpaper to come in so the other side is just completely barren right now.

This is probably after the second coat and it was still patchy.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT spray paint indoors. That was just stupid of me.

Here's the finished product of the frames and arranged in the way it'll likely be hung up on the wall opposite of the chalkboard wall.

I also spray painted the old mirror that was in the entryway and hung it horizontally instead of vertically, the way it was before.

The roses are from Matt for Valentine's day, and the framed piece was Matt's Christmas gift to me, which is the front and back of our wedding invitation matted and framed. We went to a letterpress place (http://aardvarkletterpress.com/) and had business cards made as our invitations.

We also decided that instead of mounting our other flat screen TV above the fireplace, we're going to put it in our bedroom. Thus, I finally put up this engagement photo our friend took for us. They also printed and framed this for us as our wedding gift, and it was the exact picture we wanted to print and frame ourselves, and we didn't even tell them about that. Super talented photographers. Check out their other NOIR photos here: http://www.rouseandjones.com/portfolio

It was taken at a soda fountain/pharmacy diner in South Pasadena. I love how it looks like a Francois Truffaut film still.

I also said I'd put up a picture of the Anthropologie rosette quilt when I make my bed properly so here it is. We're definitely planning on rearranging the entire area though.

And finally, for Valentine's Day, Matt and I decided to splurge a little and get a suite at a cute boutique hotel in West Hollywood, the Chamberlain (http://www.chamberlainwesthollywood.com/#index). I actually stayed here with my best friend and maid of honor the night before my wedding as well. Below are some pictures of the hotel.

New Sofa!

We got our new sofa delivered over this past week and now the living room furniture pieces are just about completed. We also finally got our end table! So just as a reminder, I posted some pictures of what the living room USED to look like, and what it looks like currently:

Before. This is where my dining table is now.

Before, obviously.

Now with the new sofa!

 I moved the chairs around so they're no longer side by side, but in more of a circular conversational form.

Close up of sofa. It's amazingly deep with the softest cushions!

New side table!

I brought out a floor lamp that was in the master bedroom before. The living room needed more light because the two edison lightbulbs are just not bright enough. This will suffice until I can find the perfect spotlight floor lamp.

Now all that need to be done in the living room is freshly painted walls. I'm thinking some shade of taupe. We also need to create the art wall so that Matt can have his original Empire Strikes Back Star Wars poster up (with nice, customized wooden frames so as not to look tacky).

I'm also considering this ottoman:

This is just a corner of the master bedroom where I have my perfume collection displayed. I rarely use them, but I love how beautiful some of the bottles are. One of my favorite is Dolce & Gabbana's Light Blue because it just smells fresh and clean. I have stopped collecting them for awhile now because I don't even know what I'm doing with all of them. However, I do want Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle.

I gave our old sofa new life with a fresh blue slipcover. It's now in the retreat area of the master bedroom. I had to rearrange some furniture.

A light turquoise vintage desk I bought at the Long Beach Antique Market.

Another side table next to the sofa from the Long Beach Antiques where I have decapitated doll parts in teacups. That black bejeweled skull is an actual working telephone.

Entryway Wallpaper.

After some debate regarding the newsprint wallpaper for the entryway wall, we decided to go in a different direction. He insisted that the newsprint was cheesy, and I conceded. We received the sample, and it did look a little too fake. I still think newsprint walls are cool if we could use actual newspaper rather than fake vintage news in collage form. Anyway, we decided to purchase this pattern instead:

Below are just pictures I took on my phone of entryways that all have some element that I like:

The art wall:

  The stacked books and flowers:

The drawn tree:

Stacked books:

Asymmetrical plates on the wall. I love the movement.

Painted tree:

Wooden chandelier:

Hung and rested overlapping frames and quirky drawings:

Brilliant way to divide a room:

Overlapping frames and it's pure simplicity:

Tabletop decor:

Tabletop hatrack and bold wallpaper:

 Again, overlapping frames:

I'll be posting up process photos once I start painting and wallpapering the entryway. So excited! But also, so much work!