Hallway make over!

I few months ago I mentioned that we were going to start making over some areas of our home that either badly needed freshening up, or that I was just sick and tired of looking at. So far we have done Precious Princess' bedroom, (which is almost complete and when she puts the finishing touches in there, then I'll post pics of her room.) and the hallway between the bedrooms and bathroom. I've posted quite a few pics of different angles and close ups, so hopefully you'll be able to see everything clearly enough! The walls were a heavy creamy colour, too dark for my liking in this area. So it was painted a crisp clean white.......and all decorations have come from the thrift store and some have been painted to refresh them as well. I'll show you.....

BEFORE....cream coloured walls (they don't look as dark in this photo as they would normally because of the light spilling out of Princess' newly painted room). My husband also added some more modern lighting, putting in 3 halogen lights where before we had one plain old light fitting...


The newly painted but still blank wall...


The same wall, new look! The window shutters were a very dark brown colour, and bought from the thrift store for $10. They are made out of a beautiful hardwood. A quick sanding and a few coats of paint the same colour as the wall.....and presto!


Here is a close up of the shelf. The shelf was a cheap pine shelf bought from IKEA, and repainted with wall paint. The frame was also a cheap pine frame from IKEA and painted. The picture in the frame was bought at the beach side markets for $1. Most of the things on the shelf are thrifted except for the photo of our Princess when she was little, and the bottle of sand that was bought on holiday. All the thrifted things cost around $20, and for that I got a heap of things, only some of which are used in this display.


Just some different angles for you to see better......






The other end of the hallway, above the powder room.......frame and picture from IKEA. Frame repainted white. This lighthouse in the box had this awful cardboard waterfall picture glued in the background, so I tore that out and repainted the back white to match frames and wall. The next project I have to do in the hallway is to replace all the doors (linen cupboard and bedroom doors) with these gorgeously detailed doors I saw at the hardware store, and get a new hallway runner in a beachy theme or colour. But for now, we're really happy with the hallway make over, which came in a nice little budget friendly cost of.......$50!!




Love Amanda xxx