Two Small Touches

One bad thing that people don't tell you about band wifing is the extremely small amount of time you actually get to spend with your band director husband. For instance, we are trying to get a lot of painting done this week, but that is proving to be difficult. Why? I work until 6:15 every day and husband has been busy until 8 pm or later every day this week. Parent meeting on Monday, conferences Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and football game on Friday. This means that the band wife is doing most of the painting herself. I like painting and I know that husband is busy, so I don't mind. It's an excuse to put my "favorites" playlist on shuffle and belt out Taylor Swift and Glee for a couple of hours until my partner in crime shows up :) I'm not quite ready to do the big paint reveal yet, so here are two teeny projects that make the house feel a little more homey!

First up: guest bedroom closet knobs.

The existing knobs weren't horrible, they just weren't my taste (at all) and they were awkwardly short, so opening the closet door took a little effort.

So I stopped at Lowe's and picked up some new, larger knobs! It's such a small thing that makes a huge difference.

{Ignore the hideous doors... I'm convinced the owners who originally had the house possessed either an extremely irate tiger or a dozen children who were so destructive, they killed the owners and buried them in the field behind our backyard... either way, the doors are on our "to paint" list. There will be more pictures of the somewhat unnerving damage soon!}

Project numero dos: 

Again with the guest bedroom. The fan is brass-plated (gag) but not high on our "to replace" list, so I decided I would at least fix the fan pull situation. As you can see, one pull is missing entirely and the other is some sort of gold bar with a brand name on it. Tres chic.

So on my Lowe's trip, I stopped down the fan pull aisle and found two new (matching) ones. It was actually painful to buy gold pulls instead of brushed nickel or bronze (my two preferences), but they will do fine until we replace the whole fan. 

{Husband is convinced the fan is going to fall through the ceiling at some point. It is making a sound that fans don't usually make, so it may be moving higher up our list!}

So there's the two quickest and least exciting things I've done so far. We have so many other projects in the works but I don't want to share until they're 100% done! :) stay tuned for many, many, many more house posts...