Apparently I have been working out all of my “Design*Sponge is closing” anxiety in the form of home decorating projects. We’ve lived in our house for nearly five years without doing a ton to it, and all of the sudden this year I’ve found myself wanting to (and actually finishing!) making over our living room, […]

Apparently I have been working out all of my “Design*Sponge is closing” anxiety in the form of home decorating projects. We’ve lived in our house for nearly five years without doing a ton to it, and all of the sudden this year I’ve found myself wanting to (and actually finishing!) making over our living room, bathroom, bedroom, guest bedrooms, kitchen dining area, stair runner, back door, and now ? the entryway. Although to be fair, this project was 100% Julia’s idea. And she was right ? we did need some closed storage. Our home is a farmhouse with the majority of the structure dating back the mid-1800s. A few sections were built sometime around the late 80s (the kitchen, kitchen dining room, and entryway), but mainly the home reflects its early roots ? and older trends ? meaning that we have hardly any closets or closed storage. When the home was originally a guest house (with teeny-tiny bedrooms up in the attic, too!) it had rows upon rows of Shaker peg rails as clothing storage instead. When the previous owner did some major renovations in the 1980s, she continued the Shaker peg rails pretty much everyw...