Foyer Makeover Farmhouse Cottage Style-DIY Shiplap

Spring Break was last week as well as my Birthday. We will not talk numbers. LOL. All I wanted to do was accomplish a project on my wish list for the house. It involved making over our foyer. It is not much of a foyer. Just a small wall with french doors leading into the office.

 I knew I wanted to add some WOW factor. Our foyer in the last house was full of the WOW Factor with two stories and the faux brick wall leading into the office. It was a dreamy foyer indeed. I knew this foyer could be just as dreamy even on a smaller scale.

I gave the foyer a quick coat of Sherwin Williams Agreeable Gray. It is the color I chose to repaint all the main areas of our home. You may not be able to tell a difference from this pic and the previous one but trust me when I tell you Agreeable Gray is a much lighter color than the original color. If you look closely in this pic you can see the darker color around the trim work. 

After painting came the installation of our DIY shiplap. Now you may be asking why I even bothered painting the wall prior to installing the boards and that is because I learned my lesson at the last house. To install the boards we used a penny in between them. Some of the boards you can see part of the wall so it is MUCH easier to just go ahead and paint the wall the color you are going to paint the boards to save yourself the trouble of having to back in with a small artist brush and paint in between the boards. It took us a day to cut the boards and install them. Then a day to fill in the nail holes, prime, paint, and caulk.

 As you can see the wall is now white and not Agreeable Gray. Mr. Front Porch wanted to try it out as white so I agreed since I already had Alabaster paint on hand from when we installed our kitchen backsplash . The office doors I painted months ago and just never shared. Eventually they will be getting crystal door knobs like our last house. In all honesty I am not sure about the white. I am really thinking of going back over it with Agreeable Gray but I am going to wait a little while to see if it grows on me. The white is the same color as our dining room wainscoting which is why Mr. Front Porch thought the shiplap should be white as well.

The foyer now has a personality all its own. I am hoping to convince Mr. Front Porch that we need to plank the ceiling in here next for even more of a WOW factor. We have dreams of bricking the archways to the right of the picture but that will be later down the road.

I am currently busy styling the space and will share soon. I will also be sharing the next project I am about to tackle in our home! It involves crystals, light and paint!:)

Sharing at these wonderful blogs:
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