New DIY Tile Entryway Reveal with Beautiful Cottage Decor!

Well, hey guys. It is an exciting week because the goal is to get this entryway put back together. This morning, Mike ended up grouting all of the new tile. If you missed that, go watch last week's video because he installed this beautiful tile and I shared it with you. So he just did the grout this morning. I have some footage that I took. I'll show it to you now. Basically, we just used sanded grout with quarter inch grout lines and we chose the color bone. Right now, it's looking a little bit dark but once it dries, it gets a little bit lighter. Of course, once you're finished with all the grout, then you have to go back and kind of wash the haze off of all the tile and that's what I've been doing all morning long. Mike started it and then he had to leave so I finished that. The process is always time consuming but of course, it's always worth it in the end. So now that we have the grout finished, Mike is just working on a few things. So he wants to bring this beam back into the entryway that we had in there. Still love that. Then we have to reattach all the trim in the entry that he had to pull off in order to put the new tile in and we're also just trying to decide what to do with this newel post. We're just kind of playing around with that today. I have to shorten the chain on this lantern. There's just some different things that we need to do to get this entryway completed. And I always like to say that no space is ever truly completed, right? I'm always tweaking spaces in my home. I'm always playing around with decor, switching things up, especially as homemakers. This is our dwelling place. This is our haven and so oftentimes, it's nice to switch up the scenery and change out your artwork and move things around, but I'm mainly referring to the new color and the new tile and just getting all of it put back together after those two large projects. Of course, we installed all the beautiful wood on the ceiling as well. So anyways, I'm excited to get all of my accessories back into the entryway. That is the goal for this week and hopefully I'll have a finished entry space to share with you. Alright friends, well I want to take a moment to share another fun Halara haul with you guys today. So I've shared Halara with you guys before. They're the sponsor of today's video and they've graciously gifted me a lot of fun items that I can't wait to share with you, but of course, all of these opinions are my own. If you're not familiar with Halara, let me tell you a little bit about them. So Halara designs are community driven. They're based on your input, which I think is really cool. So a lot of their designs are completely centered around our suggestions and I think that that is really neat. Their activewear is also designed to be functional and versatile in order to meet our real life needs. So that's one of the things I really love about Halara is that a lot of their items can be dressed up or they can be worn more casually. So let me share a few options with you real quick that I picked out. These are the Ribbed Knit High Waisted Tummy Control Drawstring Wide Leg Sweatpants. I just love the tummy control. They come up really high. I love a drawstring. So this is just one of more of the activewear pieces I picked out, but you could totally throw a jean jacket on with this and you could kind of dress them up a little bit too. I got these amazing high waisted drawstring ruched sort of tapered athletic pants. They are so stretchy and comfortable, perfect for my morning walks and I love just throwing these on to go to a soccer game. I really love them. Okay, these pants are very similar. They are a mid-rise. They're actually a golf pant. Quick dry, they've got the curved hem, which I think is really cute. I just love how versatile all of Halara's clothes are. Okay, one of my favorites are these high waisted Cool Touch Yoga Bermuda shorts. Look how high waisted. They're so soft. Again, the pockets are amazing. I also picked out a few tops that I want to show you too. So I grabbed this V-neck striped tee and you guys, the fabric is so breathable and stretchy and soft. That's one thing that Halara really tries to focus on is their fabric technology. So the fabric of these items has been carefully selected for breathability, for softness both inside and out. Let me show you some of the cute jeans that I picked out. This is their cute little button down V-neck, which I love, but paired with these cute pants, they are so comfortable. So the pants that I'm wearing are the Halara Flex high waisted zipper pockets straight leg casual jeans. I love the fact that they have pockets, they're high waisted. I'm wearing a medium. I have this top that they send with the cute buttons just kind of tucked in here. So cute. This is their semi sheer notched short sleeve casual t-shirt. Very breathable. So comfortable. So I have this shirt paired with the asymmetric Halara Flex baggy wide leg jeans. I love these jeans just as much. They are so comfortable. They are so stretchy and it truly does not feel like you are wearing a pair of jeans. I'm just so pleased with all of these items. Guys, you can use my super code PINE10 to get 10% off of orders of $120 or 12% off of orders of $150. So again, that's super code PINE10. Now that's only for the U.S. site. So that's PINE10 to get 10% off $120 orders or 12% off of $150 orders in the U.S. only. Or you can use my regular code PINE to get 20% off all sites on all regular priced items. Guys, if you haven't placed a Halara order yet, check out my link down in the description box below and look at their website. I love the fact that they have so many different color options available. They also have so many sizes, which I really appreciate. From extra small through 4X. They provide top quality items at a fair price. There is a style for everyone on there. And all of this information will be down in the description box for you below. I just absolutely love all of these items that they sent and I can't wait to use them and wear them all summer long. Okay, so for a long time I have been torn on the railings and if I should get a wood railing for right here, if I should just paint this railing blue. Right now I'm just going to paint it because we don't have a wood railing to replace it at the moment. I for sure need to do something about these spindles. First of all, they're not very secure from just many years of my boys tugging and pulling on them. I don't know if I like the white, if I want them to be blue, or if we want to have some sort of wood element. I don't know. I'm just like loving the colors, loving the ceiling, loving the tile, but this stairway situation just has me a little bit back and forth, back and forth. So I'm tired of looking at this random beige railing, so I'm just going to get this painted the same color as the walls for now. We did get some new hardware. I think it's like an antique brass bracket rather than this black one that you see here. But I figured it would be easier to paint this while it's up on the wall rather than trying to paint it, you know, outside on the ground. So just as I was painting this railing, Mike brought the beam back in. He's going to reinstall that while I continue to paint over here. Look at the original trim work. All the different colors that our trim was at one point. This sort of, I don't know if it's going to focus for you, light green and then dark green. Someone really loved green. This was cut to lay right over top of that. Oh wow. Because somebody didn't want to miter it. They didn't want to miter it, so they just kind of cut a little roundage. Hilarious. But it works. You could always label your trim, but with such a small space, we didn't really feel the need to. Okay, so I came across this entryway and you can see it's similar with the blue, pretty blue-gray color. I don't know if you can see, I can't quite zoom in, but the spindles there gave me this idea. Let me show you. I wanted to do something similar to this, so we are kind of trying to create a similar template out of some scrap wood and we're going to see what we can come up with here. I see this a lot in older entryways, especially over in Europe, so we're going to play around with it and see what we can do. This is how I do designs with like a million lines and my husband is wanting exact measurements. Somewhat. I'm trying my best. I thought it would be cool to incorporate some sort of like... I'm just trying to get them to match on both sides. We're just going to cut one out, I think, and play with it and see what it looks like. Okay, so this is just like a rough design. Super rough. It has to be sanded. It's kind of like straight on the side there. The circles aren't even right. Oh, yeah. Oops. Here, go. There's the heart. That's okay. That's what I get for not really giving you like... Straight lines. Yeah. I can't help. Oh, wow. That kind of looks cool, babe. I kind of like that. Let me hold it up for you. I'm going to go ahead and caulk all of this trim. I feel like I just painted all this trim. We ended up just putting a few new pieces in over here rather than using the old ones. Mike is outside sort of tweaking and playing around with the spindle. Is that what you would call them? Idea. So, we'll see how that turns out. Now, another thing that you might see behind me here is this. I like this peg rack here, but I have some other ideas. I'm just not like 100% in love with it. So, I saw some other ideas that I might have Mike try to recreate. Well, hey friends. It's another day here. Now. And I have been working on painting all of the trim. This is just an example of a spindle that Mike cut out. We're still trying to decide on it. I'm not sure what I think. I know for sure that I want to mess with these hooks. They're a little too orange for me. So, I want to either put some dark wax on them or change it out completely. So, I've decided on that, but I don't know. I think I need to see the other ones to decide on these spindles. But, for now, I'm just going to keep painting the trim and doing what I know needs to get done. In the meantime, I'll try to decide on some of these other features in the entryway. Okay, so while I wait for the first coat of trim to dry, I want to figure out what to do with these hooks. We for sure love having hooks under the window. Plus, with the numbers that were there before, there are holes in the beadboard. So, either way, I want to have something hanging there. I was torn. Let me show you this hook rack that my mom grabbed for me. Hold on a second. So, I don't quite have a place for this yet, but it's this beautiful gray-blue chippy coat rack. It's just far too long for this space. But, I love the color in here. I don't want to cut this down. It's so cool. I think maybe we could use it up whenever we do our future bathroom renovation. It would be perfect for towels up there or something. But, I could create a similar look to this using paint I already have. Before I do that, though, I'm just going to try to use my handy-dandy dark wax. This is the Annie Sloan. I'm almost out of it. Annie Sloan soft wax in dark. And I'm just going to go over these hooks and see if I can't get them to maybe match the tones that you see on the stairs, on the beam. I know I'm a little bit blown out here on the ceiling. These hooks just feel a little bit too light. So, let me see what I can do to match the rest of the wood. Somehow I feel like that made it even more orange. Something about the tone of that wood is just not vibing for me. I'm half-tempted to just have Mike make a shelf out of some of the barn wood in our garage. I don't feel like wood tones always have to match. I just feel like they have to be in the same family, I guess. I don't know. I'm overthinking it, I'm sure. Like usual. Okay, I just mixed some blue and gray paint colors together and I feel like this is a mistake. I don't know. I can always sand off the paint, right? Oh, I don't know. I don't know what to do. Okay, scratching that. I don't like that paint color. I don't know what to do. Okay, so Mike just sanded the entire thing. And I was asking him if he thought we, like, took out too much character. And he was like, oh, Andrea. But I think I like the tone, the color of it better. All right, enough of this. I gotta move on. All right, guys. Well, we just finished eating dinner. And Mike took the boys to soccer practice. And right before dinner, he finished the third spindle. These were kind of time consuming, I'm not gonna lie. I feel like I really love them. They just add this, like, whimsy and character to the stair railing. Um, we're just about ready for decorations. I ordered a brass outlet cover and switch plate. Not 100% sure on the switch plate. Maybe that'll be too busy over there. Maybe I wanna stick with white. And also a brass doorknob for this closet door. Just to bring in another, like, metal element. I'll probably play with it over the next few days. I'm gonna bring in some decor, though. Just to get a feel for the space with these spindles. And see how I'm liking it or if it's feeling too busy. So, let me just pull a few things in. This is my all-time favorite thrift find. $15 for this basket. I get asked about it all the time. Right now it's filled with some random fishing line. And sticks. Pocket knife. I'm a boy mom. Okay, so as I'm bringing things into this space, it's interesting, you know, the floor before was this dark slate. And it sort of grounded the space. But I'm bringing in a lot of these, like, woven elements. Which I absolutely love. But it's so funny how all of that worked so well before with the dark floors. And now I'm like, I need to ground the space somehow. So I don't know if I need to look for, like, a darker stool. Or maybe even just a simple pair of black rain boots or something. I don't know. But I'll be playing with this space a little bit over the next few days. I will say, I think I love these spindles. Some artwork on the walls. I've got to play with that. So I might just go ahead and paint the other sides of these. They're still raw wood. And work on that for tonight. And then continue to play with decorations over the next few days. I have a few pieces of artwork that I do want to share with you that I'm thinking about bringing into this space. I showed this one to you in last week's video. It's this precious painting I recently got in an antique store with this brass frame. Also, this old, old antique oil painting. There's no frame. It's just been stretched. It's an old canvas. But I absolutely love it. So, maybe a few of these. I think I really love the way the spindles look with all of the decor. So I'm going to move forward with those. Tell my husband we're good on them so he can nail them into place. Faces merge and change But your face remains the same The swallows will be eaten by dogs Okay guys, I have to let this side dry and then flip these and do another coat. The trees will bloom and ice will melt We'll always remember A significant life Just what it was needed Cleaved at the blackest night Poised to be just as dead Well friends, I think we finally have a finished entryway. And I am so pleased with the results. So this past weekend we just did a bunch of little finishing touches. I just want to bring you guys back to where we started. I think it was January or February. I was craving more color in my home. And after giving our downstairs bathroom a makeover last summer and seeing that beautiful blue green on the walls and just that pop of color and the rustic beams on the ceiling, I was craving more of that throughout my home and so I decided to start here in my entryway and I took you guys with me as I chose different blues to try on the walls and finally settled on this beautiful color called Coastal Jetty. Now it's lightened by 50% in my entry but I ended up painting the whole living room in this color. More on that later on. But anyways, we decided to bring the color just halfway up the wall, paint all the trim in that color and then of course we started on the ceiling and we decided to cover the entire ceiling with these beautiful tongue and groove wood planks that we found at an antique shop very similar to what we did in the bathroom. Well of course life happens and Mike's mom unexpectedly passed away in February which was just absolutely heartbreaking completely out of the blue and things were sort of put on pause for a while. Recently we decided to come back to the entry and work on the floors because the slate, while beautiful, was just a little dark for my liking I wanted something a little brighter and lighter and something that felt a little bit more cottagey. So I ended up finding this really beautiful porcelain tile that looks similar to a natural stone. It's got all this texture and all of this different color throughout each individual tile and I just really loved it and decided to take a risk and order it and we ended up really liking it here in the space. After all of the tile work was completed we had some painting that we had to finish up and then it was time to bring in the fun stuff. So I wanted to bring in some texture and some warmth and I feel like I really was able to achieve that by just bringing in my classic sun hats at springtime a straw bag, a little bench that I recently found at an antique shop that's very primitive and then of course a watering can just reminds me of springtime and so I have that sitting here as well. I love this little copper candle holder that I found at an antique shop for just $6 I was searching through so many fixtures online and of course the Lord just provided the perfect one and I think it's so cute here. Hung some artwork along with you guys this antique oil painting over on this side sort of balances out the heavy beam on this side and this darling little cow painting that I also found at an antique store. Of course instead of hanging a wreath on my closet door I love to hang a basket filled with blooms and this one was thrifted for just $5 and then it was all the little details. I wanted to bring in another metal element so we've got sort of this black of the lantern on the ceiling. We have copper over on the candle holder and I was really craving some soft brass and so I found these brass outlet covers online I can link them for you. We also switched out the hardware on the railing to brass and we changed out the little door handle to brass and I love the way the brass looks against this beautiful blue color. Of course we also switched out the spindles on the stairs to sort of give this space a more cottage-y look and something about them really reminds me of Germany. I feel like I saw very similar features in some of the buildings we visited with these spindles that Mike created so overall we are just so happy with the way this space came together I recently was at an antique store and found this cute little vintage black umbrella that I thought was really sweet and so I just have that sort of leaning here near the entryway but we are very pleased with the way this space came together and I'm so glad I got to take you guys along with me and really it's just giving me even more craving for color throughout my home. I love the color that I've added in the living room on this wall but I'm really craving it on the fireplace wall and I would love to do more wood in here somehow and just more of that beautiful blue so I'm excited about some ideas that I have floating around in my head and of course I'll take you guys with me but I love the way this entryway came together and let me know what you guys think about it in the comments below if you are new to my channel I would love for you to hit that subscribe button and I will see you guys next time bye bye