come and knock on our door.

we've been waiting for yooooou.

actually, i've been painting for you.

so you know how you're supposed to change the locks on the doors when you move into a new house? well, turns out to be easier said than done, at least with our door. so long story short, we had to buy a new door.

so this was the inside of the door when we moved in.

it was just plain wood on the inside and the outside was the same maroon/burgundy/red/whatever you want to call it that the siding on the house was.

and i figured if we had to get a new door, might as well paint it some fun bright color!

so i was thinking yellows. austin was thinking blues.

so, naturally, we combined them together to get a green! valspar's beach grass, to be exact.

so here's our new front door! the color doesn't really look all that much like the paint swatch, it's a little more teal/turquoise-ish. and i love it!

and if you were to look really closely, you would see that i definitely need to put another coat of paint on the door. but, if you know me, you also know that i am lazy. sometime soon i will maybe put another coat on. sometime. we also plan to paint the entire room {and more than likely the paneling, if i can convince austin to let me} but we gotta pick some colors, make some money, etc.

but while we're talking about our hallway {or is it a foyer?} let's discuss this shelf situation i gots going on.

so when we moved in there was this odd little cabinet/closet thing in the hallway, built in to the wall {crappy cell phone picture, sorry}.

i couldn't really figure out what to do with it. both doors couldn't open all the way because of the doorway into the living room and with the doors shut austin just kept shoving random junk in there to hide. not ok.

so i took the doors off. and now i just pretend it's a nice little built-in nook for books and pretties and things.

but considering the new bright front door, i thought this little nook could use a little loving, too. so naturally, i painted it.

do you love? please tell me you do. and if you don't, well, nobody asked you. because i love. and it's my house. and i do what i want.

with austin's permission, of course. :)

now that that's done, i've got to go scrub paint out of my hair and off my skin. apparently i'm a bit of a messy painter...