Thursday's Ramblin' - One Con For Living In A Condo

“It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.”
                                                                                          ~Zig Ziglar

I love color and creating, which should not come as a surprise to most of you.  But after moving into our condo, 2 years ago, I realized our front door was white, as in blah, plain old white.  Seriously, I never paid that much attention to the door when we bought the place because we knew we wanted it.  It wasn't until later I realized that every door in our condo development looks the same.  And those who live in a condo, probably know what I'm talking about.  There are RULES!  Now, we can do what we want on the inside, but for the outside they want uniformity...

In our previous house, I had painted our front door different colors over the years, always to give it a POP of color for our house.  Even our red painted cottage has a lime green door.  I mean, shouldn't a cottage be a fun place...

So I came up with the next best thing, color to hang on our exterior door.  In the spring I put together and hung my metal container with pops of bright spring flowers...

And the bigger, the better...

Last fall, I bought a HUGE grapevine wreath from Hobby Lobby and not one, but two colorful leaf garlands.  I wanted a large and very full wreath for our door.  I never took photos, but all I did was fasten the garland to the wreath with floral wire, then went around again with the second wreath.  I even made a bow with wire-rimmed ribbon (which is easy to use from year to year, just a tad of fluffing and it's good to go).  The entire wreath, with the wreath hanger, came to $22...

It's not the black painted door or yellow door I would have liked, but the large colorful wreath perks it up quite a bit.  For those of you in an apartment, you can do the same thing on your doors.  Just put your personality into it!

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