We had a great Halloween weekend with our neighbors!

As we were both reviewing and sending each other pictures from the weekend, pictures that will never make it onto this blog, 🙂 , I found a photo from our previous house.

I forgot how much I loved the painted staircase!

I removed the carpet from the stairs, added stained oak treads and painted the back of the risers the same color as the kitchen cupboards.

I was so on top of it that day! 🙂

Now we have the “stairway to heaven” in this house and I am really feeling that I need to do the same thing here. I’ll let you know how that progresses.

Looking at these stairs, the wall on the left is the back wall to Wade’s office and the spindles on the right you can see behind the couch.

Those 17 steps lead to a small sitting area.

When we first bought the house, I thought it was a kind of goofy area. I think I have moved chairs around, a bench placed in a couple of different spots and even attempted the minimalist approach to the area. Minimalism made it look like it was waiting for something. The bench and chairs were too much.

I split up my Queen Ann chairs leaving one in this area and the other in the guest bedroom in front of my desk. I then moved in a small antique table and a lamp and topped it off with some fun pieces.

It works really well when guests come to visit, i.e. my parents. My Mom is an early riser and many mornings I have found her sitting in the chair with her morning coffee and reading her local news from her iPad.

I think I will keep the sitting area as a sitting area. 🙂

The guest bedroom is right around the corner from here. You’ve already seen most of the pictures from this bedroom when I posted about the quilt my Mom made for me. Across from the bed is my desk where I work on my blog. Spencer took great shots of the room.

To refresh your memory….

These are the last two rooms for the Home Tour 2015.  Maybe I should make a Home Tour 2015: The first week of October, the second week of October etc. When I was looking at these pictures, I noticed that I have changed a lot of things around.

This girl loves change!

I have dug into my Christmas box and on Wednesday I will show you some things I have set up.

I hope you stop by!

Wendy