Small things that make a huge difference

Since The Bunker was built in the late 70's, it still has a ton of those gross, outdated gold features. Our goal for updating the house is to replace all of these with new, modern ones. 

Today, since it was my day off, I tackled a few little jobs that made a huge difference. 

These are the numbers on the front of The Bunker. Since they are gold, they INSTANTLY aged the house and I hated them. So, in order match the rest of our black, modern accents, I grabbed my ladder, electric screw driver, and a can of black spray paint to save the day! 

I'm not the best at spray painting, but it's pretty self explanatory. I washed the numbers first to clean of debris. Then, after they air dried, I applied a thin layer of spray paint using long continuous movements. I also painted the screw heads to match:) 

I gave them more than enough time to dry (like 3 hours) before I put them back up because I was kinda afraid of scratching off some of the paint when I screwed the screws back in. I think that was a good idea because they are perfect!! 

And there yah go!!! 

Now we really need to switch out those front lights with something new....another day:)

In other news, I wanted to add curtain holders (I'm not sure of the technical term for them) to hold the curtains on each side of the window. 

Adding holders to pull the curtains to the side just really opens up the window and makes the whole room feel a lot bigger. When the drapes are straight and hanging, they aren't as "home-y" feeling.

See for yourself :) 

I think it makes the window look HUGE!

As you can see, I used black hardware to match the top curtain rod, which is also black. You can also see in the photos that when we hung the curtain rod, we decided to do it a bit differently by connecting it to the ceiling. By doing this it made the walls appear taller and the window bigger! 

What do you think? 

Please leave comments below!!! :)