Keys To Our Past

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. 
                                                   ~Unknown


I finally finished our family photo gallery wall that I've been working on, like forever!  Can I hear an AMEN!  We have a walkout lower level, so when you walk into our entry way, rather than going upstairs (because we don't have one), we have stairs that lead down.  

So when you stand in our entry, this is what you're looking at if you face the stairway.

And when you get down to the bottom, this is the view.  You may have noticed (or not), the blue horizontal tape on the wall.  Mr. Cottage is going to make a small console table to put here.  I just know he can hardly wait to start on it!

And when standing at the bottom and looking up, this is the view...

Here, I'm standing further back in our family room...

You'll notice all the keys.  I bought them a few years ago from Pottery Barn and rather than using them altogether, I scattered them around horizontally and vertically.

And named this "Keys to our past"...

Here's one more photo of the wall that leads up the stairs.  I have so much more I want to share with you, but there's really too much to put into this one post.  So I'll be spreading it out in small doses over the next few days.

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