♥ We're At It Again ♥

Well I told you yesterday that today I would show you what our little trip to the cabin inspired. And let me just insert here that after working on The Cedar Loft all.summer.long. last year, we decided we needed a break from home improvement projects.  Well, it's been a year.  :)   I think we may have gone a little crazy here, but it’s too late to turn back now!

If you remember when we got the new furniture, I did mention that we wanted to redo the staircase. Redo meaning to remove the carpet from the stairs and replace it with hardwood and paint the risers red and also take down the wallpaper in the foyer and staircase area and paint it. ( I can't believe I ever really liked that wallpaper).  Well while we were gone last week, we discussed coming home and getting started on it. And started we did, only the project keeps growing. Actually, I don't know why I'm so surprised at that, because that's kind of the way it goes when we dive into a project.

Take a good look at the staircase 

I don’t know if you do this, but I was standing there in front of the staircase for the longest, studying it trying to decide what color those walls needed to be.  Originally I thought maybe the color of my dining room would be good. Then I thought no…….too much chopping up of the rooms…..I want it to flow. It just didn’t seem right to me. So then I thought red like the living room. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I just didn’t think that was right either. It just seemed like too much red. I know….I know......I can’t believe I’m saying that.  :)  But, after standing there staring at it forever, I told Jason, “You know I really want wood. And I want it to be rustic.” So he says, “Well we could put up log siding on the inside.”   Well when I heard could that's all I needed to hear!   I loved that idea!

So on Saturday, we pulled the carpet off the stairs. Then we got to looking at the railing and posts and decided they just weren’t rustic enough to go with the log siding.  I’ve always wanted more straight lines in the staircase anyway and not the spindly posts. And the woods just wouldn't match well together.  So before the day was done, we had torn down the entire staircase. And we’re left with this!

My poor staircase now.  And notice that wallpaper at the top missing.....a certain 4 year old had a hand in that.  I never showed you THAT before, did I?  :) 

And I can’t believe it....... We’re getting ready to start back to school soon.......... I start back teaching piano lessons......... and my entry way looks like this! Plus I have a very active 4 year old that I'm having to keep off those stairs because there are no railings. (He's being very good).  :)

Guess since I didn’t get the logs on the outside (we considered it when we built this one and decided on the cedar because of the expense), I’m going to have a logs inside......or at least some!  I’m kind of excited!  :)

 Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!  :)