The Super Messy Supermommy: Yard Sale Finds Are My Friends

Yard sale finds, castoffs, items hidden deep in my mom's basement storage room....these are my friends. I never thought I'd be the type to say that I loved junk. I enjoy looking at an item and finding a new use for it.

Like these old shutters my mom had in her basement. They were black, nothing special about them at all...but I felt like they needed to be displayed somewhere and out of the bottom floor of my parent's home. I took them to our house in Bardstown, where they hung out in our storage shed for awhile. I was unsure of the perfect place to use them. As a picture holder? As a decorative accent on a wall in our home? Nothing sounded just right. Until around Christmas time, when I decided to take a shelf off the wall and it left a HUGE mark where the brackets had been. Oops. I searched frantically for a solution to hide the eyesore and finally came up with one of the shutters. I displayed it on the wall and hung our stocking from it for a couple of months (oh, you don't take your Christmas decorations down until March either??).

Soon after, we moved and I haven't found the "perfect" place to put the shutters back up in the new house. I've been trying to decorate very deliberately and with purpose and not just throw crap on the walls just to have decorations. But one day, while I was watching TV, it hit me.

Duh. These shutters make the perfect frame for our TV! When Marty mounted the TV, it left quite a bit of open spaces on the sides that I always felt needed something. I didn't want to hang pictures because I felt like that would distract from TV viewing, but I didn't like the idea of leaving it all blank though. Marty complains that they make his TV look smaller, but I don't mind a bit.

I'll leave you with some other TV wall inspiration that just make me drool: