Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have been working on a total house transformation! Specifically, we decided to 1) make our TV room a sitting room, 2) make our dining room the TV room, 3) make our formal living room the dining room, 4) sell our china cabinet and two rugs (Email me for info), 5) decorate it all. Whew! Did you follow that? My head is spinning but I LOVE IT! So, excuse my post today as it will be rather photo intensive (and focused on the DR/TV switch). FUN!

Here is the “before” shot of our DR (WHY is the picture so small? I don’t know. Sorry. I’ll try to take a better one and post again tomorrow!):

We decided (in conjunction with a friend/genius interior designer, Brandeis Short of Ann Brandeis Interiors) to make the wall with the china cabinet the station for the TV. After looking at lots of terrible “media center” choices, the lightening bolt struck…Ikea sells Malms! Malms are wonderful for creating a TV console!! I tackled the project in spite of the Malm’s CLEAR assembly instructions:

Now, if you are a genius like I am, this is no big deal. CLEARLY, the box at the top of the instructions is telling you, “You will be SAD and NOT accomplish anything if you try this alone. However, if you find a similarly shaped man with a pencil behind his ear (indicating his genius-like qualities), you will be happy and the Malm will be successfully assembled. Because, don’t you know, this IS rocket science, you stupid idiot.” Hey, Ikea, I did this by myself. In your FACE!

I put together two three-drawer Malm dressers and one six-drawer dresser. This is what it looked like when I finished it (no man with a pencil behind his ear could’ve done THIS!):

(“WHOA!”) Exactly.

Step 2 was to stencil the entire room. We chose the Zamira stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils on Etsy. WHY? Because it’s f’ing amazing. That’s why. I post my style interests like this stencil and other “covets” on my Pinterest Boards. Me heart Pinterest! Have you been there yet? GO NOW. Follow me on Pinterest by clicking HERE.

Luckily for me, the color scheme in this example was exactly what I wanted in the DR. And, our walls were already painted my go-to color from Benjamin Moore, Revere Pewter. It truly works for everything. Do it.

Here is the beginning of the project (more on the actual stencil work later…it is NOT easy but NOT hard…um….):

And, here is the picture a lot of you “oohed and ahhhed” at when I posted it on FB (the completed wall):

It is not finished, by any means, but here is the situation with my pretty new glass lamps from Pottery Barn:

I KNOW! I am really excited about it!! Oh, you’re talking about the wall? I was talking about watching Regis and Kelly. I never watch TV much less morning talk shows. I was really pumped to be painting and listing to that “k-razy” pair. Ha!

Now, why is the Malm so boring, you ask? Because in this picture it doesn’t show the GENIUS O’verlays I have since applied. WAIT FOR IT. I will post again about applying the O’verlays. I have opinions so watch out! Until then, happy, happy day to all of you!

Adrianne