My Door

I will begin this post by giving a little background info. Well, first, I have been crazy lately with thinking of ideas of things to do with our apartment to make it cute, and improved in general. So I've been searching the classifieds for a new dining room table (found one for $20 I want to get and refinish), and checking out some awesome blogs with different decorating ideas. Also, I had to make a trip to this store, which I have been wanting to check out for a while. I think it's called Habitat for Humanity Re-Store. It's just basically a bunch of old used stuff from different houses and whatnot. So I was walking around the store when I walked by these shelves with stacks and stacks of old cabinet doors. First I noticed the sign that said "cabinet doors 2/$5", then I saw this door on top of one of the stacks.

Then what happened can only be described as inspiration or a stroke of creative genius hit me. I looked at that door and new instantly that I wanted to buy it, and exactly what I wanted to do with it. I felt a little bad picking it up because we had just talked about how we needed to not spend much money for a little while if we could avoid it....but I was a bad girl and thought, "for $2.50 I will call this a birthday present to myself." So I bought it.

And here was my idea. Paint it dark red/burgundy to match our living room. Put a nail in it, about where you would put a nail in a full-sized door for decor. Hang different seasonal decorations from the nail! I told this idea to a few people and got mixed reactions. Some people seemed to think it was a little odd, but a couple seemed to get what I was thinking. So here's how it turned out:

I still need to hang it up, but I'm waiting till I get a couple of picture frames to go on either side and hang it all above the couch I think. That wall has been way to empty for way to long. By the way, did I mention this was a cheap project? Here's how it all added up:

$2.50--door

$0.89--paint

$0.00--varnish (already had it)

$0.59--grapevine wreath

$0.00--ribbon

Total = $3.98!!! The ribbon is not what I would have actually used if I were to go out and buy some...I just found this in my random stash of ribbons I've saved from presents and whatnot. I think this one actually came from the packaging on a set of baby clothes. But it is green and springy, so it will work for now, though I'd like to dress the wreath up a little bit more.

And if you still think I'm crazy, here's proof that I'm not the only loon out there... As I mentioned I've been having a ball with some cool blogs. One is called Nesting Place. Awesome ideas. Some of my favorite are the window "mistreatments" which I want to try a few of...maybe I'll wait till we move :) and the "10 minutes to a room you'll love" series. I've gotten some really good ideas from here. Anyway, after I had bought my door I was looking through all of her old posts and found this:

Yes, that is a door hanging above her couch. I also love the scrapbook paper lining the wall of her hutch there.

Also, my sister told me about another blog today, Joys of Home, and this lady has a whole label (about 18 posts I think) called "Furniture I A-door" that is all furniture she's made out of doors! Some of it's pretty cool. Here are a couple that I really liked: