More often than not, my best design decisions come from spur of the moment ideas. Ideas that pop into my head and quickly turn into projects before I have time to think about what I'm doing. That's exactly how a plank wall ended up in our entryway and how our fireplace ended up getting painted last weekend. I whitewashed our fireplace a few years ago, but always felt it had a funky pink hue that didn't jive with the rest of our basement. Just recently I started throwing around the idea of painting it white or trying to give it a more "old brick" look, but wasn't sold on either idea. I sought advice from a few blogger friends and that's when Emily from Table and Hearth asked what I thought about painting the fireplace the same color as my doors. Whoa, why didn't I think of that? I already painted the front door , dining room door , mudroom doors, basement door and kitchen cabinets dark, so it only made sense to paint the fireplace. By now...
