Hey friends, I’m starting up a new series of free printables to reflect the seasons… I already have a few in progress for the upcoming holidays! Today’s free printable welcomes autumn in a sweet and simple way. “Hello Fall” features a watercolor leaf I painted and some script font, it looks lovely framed on a mantel or positioned in an entry or kitchen or wherever you gather. Click on the links below to download the 8×10 JPG for photo printing. I’ve also included the 8.5×11” PDF for home computer printing (for 8×10 frame). . Hello Fall Printable8 x 10 JPG8 ½ x 11 PDF. *for personal use only Free Printable: Hello Fall syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr Free Printable: Hello Fall
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Down the street from my studio, a new school opened this year in a structure that was formerly a church. There is a growing trend across the nation, with thousands of churches closing their doors each year. While many faith communities are flourishing, there are some that aren’t. Declining congregations and lack of attendance are attributed to a transformation of modern religious behavior, causing some traditional churches to end their worship services, leaving beautifully constructed structures behind. What is a community to do? church to school conversion Adaptive reuse of traditional buildings isn’t new. Architecturally speaking, it’s similar to converting an old mill or factory built into a hotel or modern residences. Community leaders and architects can come together to transform the space into a thriving new venue. In another part of the small town where I live, a small Gothic style church structure is being remodeled for use as a performing arts center for the city. The idea of converting churches does tear at my heart strings. I grew up going to Sunday school in my youth. I attended a Catholic high school, and throughout my life I’ve participated in protestant services across denominations. I have great appreciation for these institutions and respect for the faith based community. I’d much rather see new life brought to the structure, instead of watching it be torn down to make way for cookie cutter condos. chicago conversion: church to residence There are many examples of churches being converted into residences as well. One enormous challenge to note is the traditional high pitched ceiling. Originally planned to draw the eye up in contemplation, as a personal residence, the vaulted ceiling poses greater heating and cooling costs. Also challenging is how to make wide open spaces cozy and inviting? What are your observations on this topic? How far should a community go to preserve religious structures? How do you feel about churches being repurposed as community centers, school, or art venues? Has this happened in your town too? More articles of interest: Repurposed Churches of New Orleans . Afternoon Chat: Repurposing Empty Churches syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr Afternoon Chat: Repurposing Empty Churches
Halloween does not always have to be scary. Kati Farrer of Houseful of Handmade was able to take advantage of a few Home Depot products, showing how to decorate her patio for Halloween.
Have fun with your Halloween decor this year and decorate with bright colors in a Day of the Dead theme! Instead of spooky, our skeletons are celebrating. Complete the look with these easy DIYs and decor from The Home Depot. Sugar Skull SkeletonsThe easiest way to turn your Halloween into Day of the Dead decor is to make your skeletons into Sugar Skulls. And this is the easiest project ever! Grab a set of bright colored Sharpie Paint Pens and add some flowers, swirls, and dots to your skeleton. The skeleton instantly went from spooky to ready to party. We also gave our wolf skeleton the Sugar Skull treatment. The kids now call him Chico and he is more of a dog to them. Perfect for our skeleton’s best friend in the afterlife. Layered Halloween DoormatTo give the entry a bit of decor, we added a new doormat. I love the layered doormat trend and knew I could make one with our Day of the Dead theme with supplies from The Home Depot. Using a drop cloth, I made a large mat and gave it a bright colored buffalo check pattern with painters tape and spray paint. Then to add some Sugar Skulls, I made a stencil and used it to spray paint the colored skulls onto the mat. I gave it some fringe on the bottom by fraying the drop cloth and adding some beads. For the top mat, I bought an inexpensive ribbed mat. Then I cut out a vinyl stencil with a Day of the Dead themed quote and transferred it to the mat. A couple coats of white spray paint and it was the perfect layered doormat. Sugar Skull WreathI am a firm believer that every door needs a wreath. This one was made from a piece of ¼” MDF. I cut out the shape of a sugar skull and some decorative pieces. Then the MDF was painted with spray paints in a variety of bright colors. The painted pieces were attached to the skull with Gorilla Super Glue and then tied to a wreath form that was decorated with some black cloth. For more information, check out my sugar skull wreath tutorial on Houseful of Handmade. Sugar Skull PlantersBecause I cannot get enough sugar skulls, I grabbed two of these 3 pack of skulls. These were transformed with a coat of spray paint. You can have fun with the massive selection of paint colors at The Home Depot. After the paint dried, I decorated them with the Sharpie Paint Markers just like I did with the skeletons. You could leave the skulls as is, but I wanted to add some flowers to add an extra element to our porch. I cut a hole in the top of the skulls and added a couple drain holes in the bottom. Then they were ready for planting some fun fall flowers. I share more details on Houseful of Handmade as to how to make the sugar skull planters. We also found this light up sugar skull at The Home Depot in their Halloween section. He pairs nicely with the sugar skulls planters and will give the kids a surprise at night when he lights up. Finishing it All OffOf course we had to add a few pumpkins to our porch. It is Halloween isn’t it? And then to make the entire porch look like a party, I cut some Day of the Dead banners out and hung them across the porch. You can get the pattern for the Day of the Dead banners at Houseful of Handmade. And now we are ready to celebrate! The post Day of the Dead Halloween Porch appeared first on The Home Depot Blog. Day of the Dead Halloween Porch syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr Day of the Dead Halloween Porch Ok, now we’re cooking with gas! Maybe I shouldn’t use that expression for a bathroom reno… ANYWAY… we’ve made lots of progress since partially demo-ing the room last week (more on that here), and wanted to share our final floorpan with you (IT’S SUCH A GIANT IMPROVEMENT!) and our final tile picks (along with a few other things we debated, why we chose what we chose, etc). So here’s the old bathroom layout. Yes we lived with it like this for over six years. Yes, it was A LOT of doors (the one leading from the hall to our bedroom is right behind where the tub is below – so there were five in a ten step radius or so). And the only natural light in the entire space basically was stopped by a bunch of walls and doors, so it made it as far as the toilet and maybe the tub on a good day and that was it. Continue reading Our Bathroom Reno: The Floor Plan & Tile Picks! at Young House Love.
via Tumblr Our Bathroom Reno: The Floor Plan & Tile Picks! Sundays are for rejuvenation, so often I go in search of serenity close by. Just a few miles away from my house is an olive ranch, and it’s been on my list of places to visit for years. I used to drive past the ranch on my morning commute and I always wondered what life was like behind the gate. On Sunday, I finally got a chance to see. McEvoy Ranch is one of the industry leaders and producers of organic extra virgin olive oil and is less than an hour north of San Francisco. There are more than 14,000 olive trees on the property, and just a few years ago they opened the ranch to visitors for tastings and tours. If your goal is to sit in an idyllic setting surrounded by grapevines and orchards, to enjoy the sunshine, relax and sip wine, then this is the perfect place to spend an afternoon. I shot some pictures of the grounds, the farmhouse and the fall colors on my weekend visit to the ranch. The staff is small, so tasting reservations are required, but it’s easy to make them online a few days before you visit. There’s a lovely tasting room and gift shop carrying all of their extra virgin olive oils, skin care products, and olive wood kitchen goods. The hydration body oil is my new favorite. If you book an official walkabout tour, they’ll take you all around the property, into the groves, and vineyards and a trip to their conservatory too. Tastings and tours include a lesson in the process of making their award winning organic olive oil. I can’t wait to return since I learned they just started “Wine Wednesdays” – I’ll be bringing a group of friends there soon. . Wine Country Weekend: McEvoy Ranch syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr Wine Country Weekend: McEvoy Ranch
With Halloween around the corner, it is always fun to decorate the outside of your home in preparation for guests. Chelsea Johnson of Making Manzanita was able to take advantage of a few Home Depot products, showing how she prepared for her trick-or-treaters this year.
Halloween is right around the corner, so it’s time to get your front porch ready for trick-or-treaters! This year we were thrilled to take part in Home Depot’s Halloween Style Challenge with a Spooky Cemetery theme. We came up with something that was so easy and fun to create! Make it a Family AffairIf you wanna do it like we did, go and grab some donuts and coffee, snag the kids and spend the morning outside “making Halloween” as my toddler called it. The little ones can help unpack the boxes of decor. There was nothing too complicated about this Spooky Cemetery porch, so it is definitely one to involve the whole family! Go DramaticWe really wanted to add some drama, which is always fun when you are decorating for the holidays. Incorporate something that makes your neighbors do a double take when they drive. Visually, I think the most dramatic thing we did on our spooky cemetery front porch was the white curtains. They were SO easy and inexpensive. We used cheesecloth cut into descending lengths and ripped at the bottom and attached to the top of the front porch simply with white thumb tacks. Couldn’t be easier! Another dramatic thing we incorporated were these lanterns, which you can’t get really get the full effect of in pictures…but they flash like lightning and make spooky sounds, which will definitely give your trick-or-treaters a scare. The fog machine filled with this fog juice really adds drama to everything as well. There’s nothing more spooky than walking up to scene covered in fog. Turn Your Flower Bed Into a CemeteryThis time of year the flowers have come and gone. So use that flower bed to create a spooky scene for your Halloween decor! This LED Tombstone set was the perfect addition along with some bones thrown in for extra spooky. My absolute favorite part of the whole spooky cemetery is sticking the hands and feet bones from this Bag of Bones set into the soil a bit so they look like they are coming up from the grave. The lights on the ground act as spotlights on the tombstones at night. I love that you can change the colors from orange to purple. Or even flashing alternating between orange and purple. Incorporate Reusable DecorMy husband looked at me like I was crazy when I pulled the cotton wreaths and garland out of the Home Depot boxes. But, I am firm believer that you can totally mix in your own style. Even if you’re doing something like creating a spooky cemetery porch! When I am decorating for the seasons, I love finding versatile pieces that can be reused for other holidays or even year-round. So, we’ve got a little bit of farmhouse mixed in with our crossbones and skulls. I think it turned out so cute! All we did was zip tie some of the bones from the Bag of Bones sets to the wreath and garland. The skull is tied on with fishing line so it truly looks like it is floating. Incorporate the cotton accents definitely adds a little touch of “me”. The best part is that even after Halloween this decor can stay put. The cotton wreaths and garland can stay up and add the perfect touch of fall to your porch. Don’t Forget About the Treats!We’ve got two little ones, so chances are that we will be out and about all night on Halloween doing some trick-or-treating for ourselves. But I didn’t want to forget about anyone brave enough to walk passed the spooky cemetery and under the curtains. The brave ones will be rewarded with a pick from the treats basket guarded by this cute poseable skeleton that my three year old has affectionately named “Halloween”. Thanks to The Home Depot for partnering with us on the project and please visit our blog, Making Manzanita, for more DIYs! The post Spooky Halloween Cemetery Front Porch appeared first on The Home Depot Blog. Spooky Halloween Cemetery Front Porch syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr Spooky Halloween Cemetery Front Porch We’re sharing how our bathroom reno went from zero to fifty percent (that’ll make more sense when you hear what we did) and how we gained a ton of insight about the right layout and the right size for the vanity, shower, tub, etc. Also… the houseplant struggle is real, so we asked plant expert Carmeon Hamilton everything we’ve ever wanted to know about how to keep inside greenery alive (and happy!). She shared her favorite easy plants for beginners and even laid out when to water, re-pot, and fertilize your indoor greenery (we were like: wait, we should be fertilizing?!?). Plus, we’re shouting out a super handy multipurpose tool that we loved so much we bought two of them. And there was a surprise twist in our color of the year predictions that even we didn’t believe at first. You can download this episode from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and Spotify – or listen to it below! Note: If you’re reading in a feed reader, you may have to click through to the post to see the player. Continue reading #149: What’s Next For Our Master Bathroom Reno at Young House Love.
via Tumblr #149: What’s Next For Our Master Bathroom Reno My cousin came to visit last weekend, he’s one of my favorite people in the world. It was fun to play tour guide with him on his first visit to Northern California. We went wine tasting, visited the redwood forest, and of course he had to see the coastline! Thankfully we had great weather, just like this weekend. October, you are simply the best! Today I’m off to tour of a local olive oil production company, I’ll be spending the afternoon walking through the groves in the autumn sun. Bliss! Favorite links from the week: Fresh and fun: this laid back Southern California casita. Very pretty: the abundance of light and white in this dreamy lake house. What a lovely kitchen remodel with sage green cabinets. The sweetest little girl’s room ever. (That bed!) Good news about cleaning up the massive amounts of plastic in the ocean. The mood-lifting effects of breaking social silences and chatting with strangers. Healing childhood wounds by reparenting yourself. “Your appearance is the least interesting thing about you.” A roundup of cool corn mazes from coast to coast. Really funny: “every influencer”. “Farm to face” made me laugh so hard. . Weekend Reading syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr Weekend Reading Who dreams of a cabin in the woods? (Me, raising hand.) I’ve spent a few vacations in an A frame cabin in Lake Tahoe, so this style of cabin has always appealed to me. A frame cabins were extremely popular from the 1950s to the 1970s as vacation getaways that allowed informal entertaining and an easygoing lifestyle. The A frame’s basic design made it more economical to build. It has a distinctive peaked roof that stretches from the rafters to the ground and horizontal cross beams that stabilize the structure and support the second story. By design, it does have a few disadvantages: minimal wall space, restrictive window placement, and fewer closets. But what it lacks in layout, it makes up for with charm. The upstairs rooms (or loft) open to the lower level below encouraging relaxed communal living. In the A-frame there is less opportunity for privacy, so the residents must gather around the fireplace or play outside, encouraging an open shared lifestyle. Any A frame remodel must accept the dramatic slanted roof and never disrupt the pure triangular lines. Some renovators bring in an abundance of light paint to give the cabins a Scandinavian vibe, others allow the wood tones of the walls or ceilings or beams to shine. I gathered a group of updated and well decorated A frame cabins across North America for your enjoyment, and note some are available to rent! Heber City, Utah
Big Bear Lake, CaliforniaLake Menominee, OntarioBig Bear, CaliforniaMaurice River, New Jersey
Hood River, Oregon
Big Bear, CaliforniaHarbor Springs, MichiganWho else out there is a fan of the A frame cabin? Have you stayed in one? Did a friend or relative own one? What memories do you have of time spent in an A frame cabin? . A Frame Cabin Tours syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr A Frame Cabin Tours
If you don’t have an outdoor space, holiday decor opportunities can seem limited. Kachet Jackson-Henderson of The Kachet Life was able to take advantage of a few Home Depot products, showing how to beautifully decorate her home with indoor decor for Halloween.
When I thought about The Home Depot for Halloween decor shopping, I immediately thought I wouldn’t be able to find anything because I do not have an outdoor space. I live in an apartment and can’t do any major installations of props or fixtures to my unit in my complex. But, to my surprise, The Home Depot has a TON of indoor decor options and I was amazed at the variety and organization of it all. Living in the ultimate bachelorette pad and being one that works from home, I loved the idea of decorating an area of my house to celebrate Halloween without going overboard with the pumpkins, lights and hanging decor. I’m so happy that I was able to bring a little spooktacular cheer to one area of my house: the dining table and beverage cart. Indoor WreathThe Home Depot has amazing indoor home decor for Halloween. The statement piece that set the tone for the entire space was the 22 in. Wreath with Flowers & Skulls. It adds just enough drama while still being a sophisticated piece of decor. The deep red roses, sprays of flowers and subtly spooky skeletons elevate the indoor halloween decor experience. Luckily for me, there were a few pieces for the table that brought it all together. To my existing table runner, I added the Home Accents Holiday 17 in. Flower Basket and two 19’ Spooky-Halloween Candelabras with LED lights and spooky skull accents. To make it a little more spooky, I added some of the Super Stretch Cobwebs to each of the candelabras. Dressing the Beverage CartFor any type of celebration the beverage cart is an essential, and a Halloween soiree is no exception. I decided to keep with the skeleton theme, but make it classy. Many of the bottles that graced the beverage cart already have an apothecary feel, so selecting a couple of Halloween Crackle Glass Bottles with Lights added colorful and fun flair to the traditional beverage cart. I also added the Halloween Lighted Skull on the top shelf and the Halloween Pumpkin with Skull on the bottom rack. Decorating on a Dime…and limited timeWhen in doubt, age it out – and by age, I mean, add spider webs so the space becomes spooky. Think of abandoned spaces that become dusty and spider web filled. Using the Super Stretch Spider Webs makes decorating a breeze! The cool thing is that they stretch a lot so you can add just a touch or cover an entire beverage cart, bookcase, or corner of your home. I opted to cover the front of the cart while going lighter on the sides. Leaving the back open for easier access to the bottles once entertaining is in full swing! One other easy spooky hack was adding the pieces of two Bag of Bones Halloween Prop in a basket in my house! Add a few in your living room and there’s no way your guests won’t say anything! I hope this posts serves as inspiration that you don’t have to do a lot to have a wonderful impact this holiday! I had so much fun putting this together and I can’t wait for my guests to see it. The post Easy Halloween Dining Room Design appeared first on The Home Depot Blog. Easy Halloween Dining Room Design syndicated from https://wallsgshop.blogspot.com/ via Tumblr Easy Halloween Dining Room Design |
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