We've had some GORGEOUS weather here for August!
So last weekend I decided to take advantage and work on a project that I've had all the supplies for, just waiting for the beautiful weather.
I treated myself to a curb appeal project by
painting my front door AND adding vinyl numbers!
I've been seeing this trend all over like Chris did here and Sarah did here and couldn't wait to do it to our house. As much as I would have liked to paint our front door black, it just wouldn't work with our colors - so I had to stick with white on the door and black for the numbers. But I'm just thrilled with how it turned out!
First I scrubbed down my nasty front door with Soilax (sorry you have to see this - it's the only door to our house that gets used)
I didn't get any pictures while I was painting, but I used a roller and a sponge brush to paint. This was actually really easy since my door was already white. I did two coats to cover up all the scuff marks.
Next came the FUN part! My vinyl numbers that I ordered from Kim at Uppercase Living. This was my first time ordering from UpperCase Living and Kim did a great job helping me design exactly what I needed!
YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE…
Uppercase Living offers vinyl embellishments to decorate everything under the sun!
Check out Kim’s website to order your catalog and embellishments. On her site you will find lots of great ideas for using Uppercase Living items.
Go over and play with the “MyDesign Suite” under the Products tab to design your own ideas!
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Now for the Giveaway!
Kim wants you to have a chance to Express Yourself with Uppercase Living!
You can win
any accessory of your choosing from Kim’s Uppercase Living site – a $35 value total – or if you rather choose something else, you can pay the difference and get whatever you want! You can custom design it yourself or choose from many styles already made.
Kayleen of This Old Chair was the winner of the Uppercase Living Express Yourself Giveaway!
Contest ends Wednesday Sept 9, 2009 at noon CST.
I'll be linking this post up to the following parties this week. Susan of Between Naps on the Porch, hosting Metamorphosis Monday, Cheri of It's So Very Cheri hosting The Knock Off Knock Out Party, Kristen of We are THAT Family, hosting Works for Me Wednesday Kimba of A Soft Place to Land hosting DIY Thursday. Gina of The Shabby Chic Cottage hosting Transformation Thursday, Julia of Hook on Houses, hosting Hooked on Fridays. . Be sure to visit their blogs for great ideas and for links to other participant entries.
Don't miss my other GIVEAWAY from Luck Girl Blog Desings (ends 9/4/09)
88 comments:
Oh, I would love to have the Chalk Wall for a menu in my kitchen! Okay, so maybe not for a menu all the time, but I could use it for a reminder list too! How neat!
thanks
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I like the laundry signs.....
Your door looks great!
I think I'd select "Live Life!"
Nancy
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Nancy
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I am an e-mail subscriber.
I would love the Faith Hope Love one for above our bed in the master bedroom. It reminds me of a reading from Corinthians 13 we used in our wedding.
Mary in Baltimore
LOVE the door.
I went to her site and have to say that the dandelion on the first page is my favorite of course. I am not sure what I would do with it, but how fun is that!!!
I also like some of the sayings in the family room section. I would put one right above the entry way into our family room.
That door looks awesome!
I really want to do the same thing to my front door, but I also like the laundry room sayings...drop your drawers...too funny!
OK, so I want my front door to look just like yours, except I have a black door! I would order the numbers! :)
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Love it--I would like numbers on my door but since I am in transit I think I would so a double lettering of my daughters name-I bold lettering and one scrolly over it with her first name and then her 2 middle names.
So glad you posted this to my party. If you aren't a follower yet-sign up and Iwill do the same. I have a little give-a-way if we hit 200 visitors by tinight.
Cheri
Your door looks great, love your idea. Thanks for sharing all the info.
I would get my monogram and the fleur de lis embellishment for my back door. I think it would add a really cute touch, not to mention some privacy.
I love your door and I like the floral monograms!
You did a fantastic job! I love front door makeovers!
:)
Roeshel
I would get the Family wall decal.
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That is wonderful - great job!
i really love the citrus squeeze in the contemporary section . i would pay the difference for that
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Your door looks so cute! I'm a bit vinyled out in my home right now, but I love to see how others use it.
I love the guest make yourself at home or an inspiring one. I didn't realize that there were so many choices
i love so much, it's hard to decide, but I REALLY like the home organization chalk wall for a menu/to do, etc. But I always really want to paint my door to match the trim on our house and put a "welcome" sign on it...so hard to decide.
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I really like the look of the #12576
24" x 6" welcome sign
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Oh wow! I like them all! I just did my kitchen in coffee theme. So the Caffe latte or espresso yourself would be perfect! And I have the perfect spot! Thanks for a chance to win!
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I love the creative frames and everything from the chalk wall category!
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I added your button to my blog!
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really like the door transformation. After a particularly windy summer my door is kinda scratched and now i have a great idea to help spruce it up. Thanks!
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I see so many adding numbers to their front door makes me what to also.
I like the Off-the-Wall > Welcome .
Ally
Love the new door and love the No. look.
Elizabeth
Your front door looks wonderful! I really like the Dandelion Breeze Design. Many thanks, Cindi
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Many thanks, Cindi
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Thanks for the wonderful prize giveaway
drawing.....Cindi
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I LOVE the big dandelion, very cute!
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Mari Topham: change your thoughts and change your world...quote. LOVE this one!!
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I like the cursive Welcome vinyl.
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It' s a tough choice, but I would pick "Family is everything", the one with the cute graphic flower.
Your door looks great!
I really love that website, and yours as well! I think I would die to have the writing above my kitchen sink and long windows in the kitchen right where the sun shines in with the words Welcome and Friends and Family over it. With a nice stone color. Very warm and welcoming. Your door is fantastic and has inspired me to do mine it is now time!
I also joined with google. sorry forgot to say that above!
Oh this is so hard! I like the laundry room signs and the chalkboard for our kitchen. Maybe I'd use the $35 to justify getting both!
What a great giveaway - thank you! First of all, great makeover on your front door. I bookmarked this post for when I'm ready to do our own front door. I'd spend the $35 getting numbers for my own front door project + I love, love, love the laundry room signs, they are so cute!
There's something about revamping your entrance that makes you look even more forward to getting home! Love that number idea -- I might *steal* that one... :)
Thanks for linking up with me -- be sure to enter the Purdy Paintbrush giveaway!
I love uppercase! The pictures aren't showing up on her site. But I know there is one that goes in the kitchen that says "kitchen closed due to illness, I am sick of cooking" LoL I have been wanting it for a while!
OR the one for the bedroom that says "I have found the one whom my soul loves" I just love it.
I have your button on my sidebar
I am definitely a follower (=
It turned out fantastic!!
I would do custom numbers for the kickplate on my front door in black :)
I think I would love the chalk wall items!
I tweeted the link
I linked to you on FB
I am a follower :-)
I want a sign in my kitchen that says Enjoy Life, It's Delicious!
And I LOVE what you did with your door!
I love your door too, very Fall!
I would love a "welcome" sign on my door.
It's hard to just pick a favorite! All the saying are so cute. I really love the kitchen ones.
I am getting married and we have recently started building a house and i have been designing ever room with special details so I was so happy when I found this site and your giveaway. This was a hard choice to pick out just one but I went to the Dreams section and I was like this is the place to find something for over our bed instead of just a picture. I love I have found the one whom my soul loves. Thank You So Much.
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Together is a wonderful place to be. That is the one I like! Thanks :)
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I follow your blog :)
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I liked the "welcome to my home."
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I would love to have the "Family is one of God's masterpieces" to give my daughter for her new home.
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I would love the one that says: Home, where our memories are made for my kitchen.
I just blogged your giveaway today! :)
I just became a follower of your blog. :)
Love your front door! I saw those posts you mentioned too, and it makes me want to do this. I can't do any of this great stuff until we move though, because the house is on the market. I do like the numbers but also like the "Breathe your home" and "Family is everything". I hope to do a wall with family pictures and some type of family/home themed words in our new house. I think if I do that as a first project, it will make a new house feel like our home.
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I would love to have the flower growth chart for my daughters room meganew(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
Oh my, that door turned out turned out to be so gorgeous!
Happy day!
Christina
What would I NOT get!! I especially love:
Little girls have a magic all their own...
I just subscribed to your blog as well - can't wait to read more!
Wow so much to choose from I really like the one under the inspiring/ uplifting tab that says "happiness depends upon ourselves". I really like several of them and have a few bare walls that could use a little something. Thanks for the give away. sandibeak@gmail.com
I love the door. It's precious.
If I had to pick ONE thing from Uppercase Living it would be the one that says "Begin each day with a smile." I'd stick in our teensy master bath.
We just finished updating my daughter's bedroom and I would love to put the Floral Blocks above her headboard.
Love the idea that you made us look at the product not just leave comment. I really love the inspritional and faith stuff; however if I won I would use it to make a cutomized sign for our family business. We run skateboard and paintball store and the sign on our door needs redone.
Just added your link on my facebook.
Just subscribed and am now following your blog too!
Now your button is on my blog...this is kinda fun. I can see why some of you get into this now!
I would love to put the following inside my home above the front door! I love it!
In our home let love abide, and bless all those who step inside.
I am hoping to copy your door exactly!!} (different address numbers...but otherwise...exactly) Really nice job!
it was hard to chose but i will go with the flower panels or maybe the birds or maybe.......
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I love the "Never trust a skinny cook" and the "love lives here" ones :)
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How inspiring! My front door needs a redo, too! Great idea!
I retweeteed your tweet! ;D
i am a follower too.
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