Nothing like a good makeover! Even if it’s not on the face. This week on the blog I’m diving into home decor/interior design. A makeover for my wall! I am not a professional in this area. People think I’m good at it, but It’s really not my strength. What takes me so much time is actually deciding what I want. Once I figure that out, the rest flows.

It’s been a year since we moved to Charlotte. When we came to buy a house in 2021 we had no idea where we wanted to live or what kind of house we wanted. Me, being from Phoenix and Nate from Pennsylvania, we needed to find somewhere WE wanted to both be since neither one of us wanted to live where each other were from. We only had 5 days to search for a house so we got what was available and hoped for the best No offers got accepted so we chose to build. Long term we want to get some property and build a home or renovate something. We did end up building a home and I wanted to share some design updates with you for all you interior design lovers or for some inspiration if you are creating a home.

We started with our kids’ rooms first. You can check those out here.

My next area of attack was this wall I stare at all day doing dishes. LOL Recently our living area accent wall was finished and I love the way it turned out. This is a great option for an accent wall that is the step above just painting it.

I like to create accent walls that are the focal point in the area. We had a bare wall with flat white paint. Not ideal with kids. Basic bare builders walls with a great surface for creating what we wanted. You can see it here below as my husband is getting started. There isn’t a lot of wall space in this house so I knew this wall would need to be big, fabulous and the main feature in the living/kitchen area.

I must give all this credit to my husband. I show him an idea of what I wanted and he executed….easily, quickly and promptly. He could build a home all by himself if he wanted to. He is incredibly talented and I soak up all his goodness.

First thing he did was draw the pictures and measurements on the wall before he bought anything. The math is what makes it looks so good. So besides his wickedly crazy smart detailed brain, here is what he used to create the wall.

Lowe’s trim 1.5 inches , brad gun nailer , air compressor and a saw to cut angles . The brads hold the trim in place, the glue holds it on the wall using an all purpose construction glue in a caulking tube.

Paint is Sherwin Williams Skyline Steel. I absolutely love this color. Our previous home was painted this color. It’s the perfect non grey, non brown neutral. Sometimes the grey’s get too grey and the neutral brown gets too golden/orange. This is the perfect neutral color in all lighting.

To finalize the look I already had these items I knew I didn’t want to part with but didn’t know exactly how I wanted to use them. I call this the “jewelry” for the wall.

These are metal and fabulous addition to the wall. They are from Crate and Barrel. When creating a wall like this, think big. Putting small artwork/photo on this size of wall is going to look funny.

The mirrors are also from Crate and Barrel.

After this wall was done it needed to flow into the stairwell. As you can see to the left of the wall you look straight up into the stairs. We did the exact same design on the stairwell.

Jump on over here to my Instagram to see the reels of this process. Here for the stairwell.

Now onto the bathroom downstairs. I’m looking into wallpaper and woodworking for this so stay tuned for the final project.

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