a door and a platter

I was so inspired by The Nester's latest project of putting a door on her wall that I started racking my brain about what I had lurking in dark corners of the garage. Unfortunately, no bifold doors. I have a few shutters but that seemed too complicated to paint with all the louvres and whatnot.

But I did have a {insert my Dad speaking in an authoritative tone here} "150 year old pine door from a cabinet that i will kill you if you paint!"

OK, so no robin's egg blue door for moi. But, I decided it is really cool and have been meaning to hang it in the house anyways. But, it needed a little something. This "needing a little something" seems to be a pattern. Anyways, I decided to hang an old ironstone platter from the door, using none other than upholstery webbing {halved}.



Cute, right? But not the pop of color I was wishing for after seeing Nester's blue door. So I *happened* to be in TJ's {that's Maxx} tonight and stumbled upon a robins egg blue platter for none other than $2.99. Score. I have been incorporating this color little by little in with my rust, green, cream, wheat, and black color scheme. It appears in my draperies, which I will show you later.

By the way, I just staple-gunned {that is so not a word} the upholstery webbing to the back of 150-year-old-pine-door that I so badly wanted to paint after stringing it through a plate holder. Now I can change out the platter on a whim without undoing the whole shebang.

And here it is. It is more vibrant in person.

And with the chair I recently recovered with a remnant of Waverly fabric on triple clearance that I tea-stained.

It's the same robin's egg blue so it looks cute with the door/platter thing above it. And it really looks so pretty against my rusty red {Spicy Cayenne by Behr} accent wall behind it. One of these days I'll actually show you the whole room. Imagine that.