MY FIRST VISIT TO MET MONDAY: DECORATIING MY NEW PLACE PART 1

After living in a small town in the MS Delta for over 30 years, I have moved and am getting settled in the Nashville area. Since I’ve been following Met Monday almost since its first week, I thought it would be fun to document the things I’m doing to make my new house my “home”. It’s an ongoing process … that’s for sure…. and I need lots of help. My sister is my go to person in that area most of the time. She spent several days here last week and got me off to a great start.

I thought I would begin by sharing the fireplace wall in my den. Besides the fireplace, it has a window on one side and a french door out to the back yard on the other.

Here is a before from shortly after I moved in.

One of the first things I did was to change the floor from carpet to this. The people who lived here before had two dogs and two sons. The carpet was clean but aged and then my dog, my grandkids and I had it looking old and dirty in a couple of days. That kind of made my mind up about whether or not to have carpet in the room where the two main exits in my house are located. AND I love the laminate that was installed. It is a perfect color and looks great.

Here is the after picture of the fireplace wall.

The chair you see is a red wingback chair that should be pushed back in the corner a little more but I forgot to push it back after I hung my sheers on that window. I’m going to add a triangle valance that matches the seats on my extra pull-up chairs. I’ll add some sort of trim around the edge and I think it will look quite nice.

The sheer on the door is knotted at the bottom because I need to shorten it, add a casing to put the rod through and add then put the other magnetic rod on the door. I love that I can use magnetic rods on that door and the sidelights on the front door since I had had some on my patio door at my other house and had brought them here with me. Magnetic rods are a little more expensive but they work great on metal doors and there’s no drilling or hammering required:) Here are a few close ups of the sign hanging from the doorknob and some of the things on the mantle.

Except for the greenery in the crock, these were all things that made the move with me.

Hope you enjoyed this look at my fireplace wall and will come back for a look at some more next week.

In the meantime go on over to visit Susan at Between Naps on the Porch.  I guarantee you’ll be glad you did.