Furniture Living room: Homecoming Mums, Easy Home Updates and Angelonia

Hello again! A few of you have asked to see a pic of the Homecoming mums I talked about in my last post. I texted my son and he sent me this one of him and a friend the day of the pep rally. (not sure if her parents want her image on a public blog, so I cut off their faces...ha!)

You can see just how big the mums are! And yes, all the boys wear these smaller versions attached to a garter on their arm. :)

I found my son's mum in his room and took these close ups. It's a little worn, because this was after an entire day of pep rally celebrations. ;)

The garter is attached to a backer board on the back of the mum...

Since he's a senior, he got to have lights on his. (Only seniors can have lights on their mums)

The seniors are also the only ones allowed to wear crowns...

And of course, more lights...

It's also a rule that only seniors can have white mums. Lord help you if you're a freshman and not privy to all the rules and accidentally get a white mum! Lol!

Anyway, I've been getting some questions on IG and here on the blog about the wainscoting in our dining room. I don't know if I've ever talked about how we did it, but here's a pic...

We did this the easy (and cheap) way. We just painted the bottom half of the wall white, then painted those little boxes and nailed them up. Kind of a faux wainscoting, if you will. :) For the boxes, we bought long pieces of trim and cut it ourselves, but you can buy pre-made boxes that you just have to paint and nail up.

Speaking of home updates, I've been meaning to do an update on our painted kitchen cabinets...

We painted them about two years ago and I really have nothing to report, as they've held up wonderfully. Not a single problem with them, thank goodness. I highly recommend the Benjamin Moore Advance paint. You can click HERE to see the painting tutorial.

The tutorial also shows how we added the furniture "feet" to our cabinets for about $6 each...