OUR LAST DIY OF 2016 & THE FIRST OF 2017

Hello everyone. I hope your week is going well.

I have been on a little blogging break trying to get our home back to normal after the holidays.

Don't let my tittle fool you, today I am not sharing two projects with you, just a very long one. :)

You see, being the "different kind of people" we are, we decided to start a new home project two days 
before Christmas. Are we the only ones? 

I think I already know the answer to that. LOL

And of course, it was 2017 before our project was finished. :)

Well, my husband had the week off for the holidays and we didn't have any company coming, so what better 

time to start a new project.

If you all remember the layout of our home, we have this opening between the stairwell and coat closet.

Soon after we moved into the house, we added chair rail and molding and painted everything in Latte by SW, which is in the same color family as the Kilim Beige which is the color of our walls all through out the house.

A couple of years ago, and also before Christmas, I decided to give the stairwell a brighter look and repainted everything in white.

Since then I have been saving this picture I printed from Pinterest. I always, always wanted a built it bench 
for that small space.

Sooo, I showed it my husband, we talked about it for a bit, left for the grocery store and when I got back, 
he was already busy at work. :)

And by the end of the first day, it was starting to take shape.

The next few days were spent building new homemade moldings, adding the top of the bench, 
installing everything and painting.
And that is exactly where the New Year found us. :)

And then came the fun part, making the bench cushion.

We purchased a 3 inch medium density piece of foam in an upholstery store in our city. 
They cut it for us exactly to the dimensions we needed.

To make the seat cushion, we used a beautiful fabric my daughter had gifted me a while back and we followed 
a very easy tutorial by Traci at Beneath My Heart. 

The fabric is P. Kaufmann Buffalo Check Linen Fabric and you can find it here.

And just like in the Pinterest picture, we painted the wall behind the bench white and added some trim molding.

And then I ventured myself to make a roll/bolster pillow.

Wow, that was hard! I followed a really good video tutorial on YouTube, but even them, it was one of those 
"easier said than done" kind of projects. 

You can find that video here.

To finish it off, I added two pillows I already had. They came from Kirklands a few years ago.

We are still not finished with this small space. 

We want to add a wall lantern over the bench or may be something else, not sure yet.

I will keep you posted on what we decide, but, for now, this is our new stairwell built in bench.

And that is all I got for today.

I am working on a little pantry update right now, so I will share with you as soon as I finish.

Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the rest of your week.

See you soon!

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