A Journey to Home: Finally Done!!!!

What has the smallest square footage in my house? Yep...you've guessed it. My hallway. Yet, it is one of the busiest areas and has the most doors; seven of them!

So of course, I decide to give this small space a make-over. Go figure. You'd think I'd go for a bigger space and get more bang for my buck. Not me, I choose the hallway. So thinking that this would be a somewhat quick project, I embarked on giving the space a make-over. That was two months ago.

I am pleased to finally announce that I am done with it! Yay! Queue the confetti...on second thought...no, I'd have to clean it up.

The entire hallway make-over began because of my dogs. They had the opinion that the hallway carpeting was a great place to go potty. I disagreed.

The carpeting was ripped out and then the hubster put in the wood flooring for me. I wanted to put wood flooring in there years ago. The carpeting guy talked me out of it. I should have known that he was just trying to sell more carpet. He said that it would echo too much in there. Made sense at the time, but upon reflecting on his logic, I had an epiphany. Who cares if it echos? Its not as if I am having a party in there!

I love the new flooring. I love that it looks clean all the time and there are no doggie stains!

I just couldn't stop at the floor. I had to make changes to the walls and cabinetry. I guess, I just like to make work for myself! LOL

The cabinetry before.

And now after.

I re-used the previous knobs and spray painted them ORB. I was going to buy new ones, but every knob I liked looked like the shape of these. It was huge savings to re-use the old ones!

Paneling the cabinetry took so much longer than I ever thought it would. I am in love with the results! Best of all, it looks like new cabinets and it only cost the fraction of new cabinetry!

The next part of the make-over were the walls. Besides a fresh coat of paint, I did a paneled wainscoting treatment over the lower third of the walls.