Cupcakes and Crinolines.

Why am I acting all smug about the fact that my room is a mess again?.Anyway.. It’s not really a pretty room, but the door knocker definitely gives it a nudge in the right direction.. A little extra hardware is always a good idea in my books!.

Have you ever added non-functioning hardware to something just for the look of it?.Subscribe by email to receive free posts straight to your inbox, or follow along using any (or all!)of the methods below!The great thing about this whole chalkboard paint trend and having big chalkboards all around your house is that it.

makes it really easy to do big impact decorating that changes with the seasons, or whenever you want, and that everyone loves..This is assuming that most people have fairly decent chalkboarding skills.

I’ve shown you before that, um,.

I do not.. I’ve thought about just leaving the darn thing blank, cause that’s a look too, but I decided to jump back in and blatantly knock-off Pottery Barn instead.. I’ve seen this chalkboard style around all over the place lately, so I guess I’m not alone!I’ve even seen some really impressive tutorials on how to “get the look” of these bookshelves and the people who wrote them have always been so talented and so helpful with all of their great advice.

But honestly, those “how to style your shelves” articles always make my head spin.It starts off innocently enough with them telling me to start with a few books, or larger objects, or blue things, or whatever.

Pretty soon though, it’s descended into me needing to find 87 different objects which are exactly 68% the size of one another and exactly 1/2 a shade lighter than the third item from the left on the bottom shelf to make the whole scheme balance out….and it just gets uglier from there.