Still Yet To Be Named Home Decorating Monday on Tuesday

I spent the week last week playing Nurse Mommy to Sophia. It is nearly impossible to have the sanity to do anything crafty or thrifty while taking care of a sick toddler. At least for me. So I just took the week off. The great thing about a blogger? They can do that.

The problem was the weekend came and I still hadn’t found everything I needed for what I wanted to do in my kitchen. Each week I want to do one smallish project, nothing huge and intimidating. But a little wall here, a project there. Just so week by week there’s progress.

I had two small parts of the kitchen I wanted to work on. The wall between our fridge & backdoor & above the pantry.

And like any well thought out Alena-plan…this one hit a road block. Thirfting. See I am doing all these projects on a budget. My goal is that everything has to come from a craft store or thrift store (I should add that in the future I may have to incorporate hand made shops to this because my craftiness may lack in some areas!).

I couldn’t find a key item. I needed two cake molds, and I couldn’t find any. So this weeks’ project is even smaller than I had planned because I just did one. Which is the point of this series, to work with the time and resources you have.

I did have this wall I needed to do something with.

Awkward Empty Wall.

I saw this on pinterest and knew I wanted to do something similar.  But silver wouldn’t work.  So red it was!

I didn’t want it to be bright, I wanted it to have a diner, aged feel.  I picked up these letters at Hobby Lobby for 2.50 each.  They are light weight and cardboard.  I also picked up some black paint and red paint.  .99 cents each.  This makes this one of the cheapest projects possible!

I painted the letters all black and “dry brushed” the top with red.  I love the feel and look and it gives something to the wall with out breaking the bank (or schedule!)

What do you think?

Now for Next Week:

Our bathroom is BLAH-BORING.  The walls are a warm gray/khaki color.  We installed a black cabinet and put in new brushed nickle hardware.  But we have two walls that need SOMETHING!   I’d like to keep it a black/white/gray color scheme.

Link up your ideas, from Pinterest, from Google, from a decorating message board. Show me what you would do in a small bathroom and I’ll use your idea’s to figure something out!

Also, if you did a project this week for the Decorating Monday post (even though it’s tuesday!)….link me! I want to see what you’ve done this week!!!  (And maybe if you have a name for this series you could share that too!!)

Note: My camera settings on my real camera are messed up.  Is there anything MORE that can go wrong with this series this week?!  So I used the camera on my phone.  What a week right?!