The Stegui House

Do you ever have one of those spots in your house where you are just waiting for the perfect thing to come along and fit the space? You know the spot and you probably have the measurements for it saved in the notes app on your phone. As soon as we moved into our house there was a big gray utility breaker box on the wall that you see right when you walk in the front door. I knew I wanted to hide it with a tapestry or something. The only thing wrong is the wall it is on is concrete and I knew whatever I hung had to be able to be moved easily so that the breaker box could be accessed if needed. Of course it took forever for our stuff to arrive and covering the ugly gray box became low on my priority list once our stuff was finally delivered. As we were unpacking and digging our way through all of our items I found my chalk board that used to hang in our kitchen in our last house! I held it up and sure enough it would cover the box perfectly! The only problem was that I painted the wood fr...

So when we move into a house one of the first things our family needs is a place to set keys, sunglasses, and (if you're my husband) a place to hang your lanyard for work...because if said lanyard isn't hung by said keys then the husband forgets it and has to call his wife to bring it to him and that's always a fun time. You feel me? Let me back track a little. We just recently moved to Okinawa Japan which is typhoon alley. Yes, we went from tornado alley straight to typhoon alley. Most of the walls in our home on base are concrete and because of this it makes hanging some things a challenge. After racking my brain I ended up using an  Ikea spice rack  -see what I did there- and turned it upside down so that it created a shelf with the wooden bar on the bottom. Then I ordered some  S hooks  on Amazon to hang on the wooden bar so that we could hook our keys on it. Now, the tricky part was attaching the actual spice rack to the concrete wall. I decided to use small...