A Little More Progress on the Entryway

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXTmFhZ9LPiX9377OqjpC2wmjeCH7fkNjVcYmVkw5S2CidoIRzzN3dwFLHngpAKYDnnJTjm01ivnALVJKywY58wOgFUUEtbk_hRgH7Ch6PFbkYR7c0v79q3HGcu1Z3iioQ5TsLY5a97Y/s1600/bDSC_3106.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXTmFhZ9LPiX9377OqjpC2wmjeCH7fkNjVcYmVkw5S2CidoIRzzN3dwFLHngpAKYDnnJTjm01ivnALVJKywY58wOgFUUEtbk_hRgH7Ch6PFbkYR7c0v79q3HGcu1Z3iioQ5TsLY5a97Y/s1600/bDSC_3106.jpg" width="436" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are nearing the end of our entryway makeover! Yay! Last week our new light fixture arrived and the following day I hung it with help from a couple of the women's basketball players. I have hung most of the ones in this house that I've switched out myself (well, if you don't count Lillie - haha!) so I have to say it was really nice having a 6'3" helper holding the weight of the chandelier while I wired it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I ordered the smaller size but it still is a bit bigger and has a bit more "bling" than I was expecting (which probably sounds silly seeing how I knew what it looked like when I ordered it) but in real life it has taken a bit of time to adjust to it. Haha! I originally planned on going with a lantern in here but the more I stared at how it would look from the angle where you could see the chandelier in our dining room I realized the lantern I  liked really wouldn't coordinate very well with that so I went a completely different direction. I thought this one would coordinate well with it, and I do think that but it is a bit more of a statement piece than I was planning on getting for the entryway - whoops! Haha!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ9YWw-EG9yl5F9SgtM4i5UVYhKIq6TulHAAcSJkK1aTI-Rt5_bi2GpSHUVB_iO25GgbsXP6d-wWMtegzMloq4Yg_Np4dYyUXvOfIDW-58Y8XHrd7oVRnIVLcdO24cpayzcX3q_CyHuoE/s1600/bDSC_3100.jpg" width="436" /></div><br />Even though all the rest of the Christmas decorations were put away in the attic I left the garland on the stairway up so I could take pictures with the new light fixture seeing how I knew it was going to look quite bare once we took the garland down until I get around to dealing with decorating the wall going up the stairs.  <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHqpXm5FkYIWL9ZXeEWBnGgtuCJikGlkRPcXT-fh1s8zwi0QJuUT-eTJVQAp-l3QwBdGnbkl8ZX5refxmjVSZ0BHansgxyFbNfuf0aS9pQA_r-G1wAIsbwdJ02IvRe5AtVYnnEPXLhwo/s1600/bbbeforeafterhall5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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A Little More Progress on the Entryway

We are nearing the end of our entryway makeover! Yay! Last week our new light fixture arrived and the following day I hung it with help fro...

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