Just Beachy!! My tablescape and a few ideas for the entertainment center

I am so glad spring is close!  This week has been a trade off, one nice day, one cold day, one nice day,.....well, you get it!  So, every other day I'm outside doing projects :)  And I do have an endless supply of projects, just ask Mr. TSL!  One of the projects I plan to undertake is my entertainment center makeover.  My dad made my entertainment center for me when I graduated from high school....which was like (cough, cough) 11 years ago.  It is very sturdy and I go through waves of, I love it and waves of it's too freakin' big.  Right now, I am back on the love it side.  I have never really liked the color.  It's too orangy, because the stain.  It also doesn't feel as dramatic in the height, because it's so wide.  I am also having a hard time with the vignette on the top. I have a lot of things I like on top, but it feels too crowded.  I have seen some pics of this being pulled off beautifully, but I don't think I'm kicking that look.

Right now it looks like this:

I m not a fan of the stuff on the top.  At first, I just had stuff on the right side.  It looked similar to this one from Pottery Barn (I LOVE POTTERY BARN):

Here is a close-up of some of my stuff up there:

I was going for this look from Pottery Barn:

Or Layla from The Lettered Cottage

Did not succeed! I think my ceilings are too low in the living room to pull off a vignette like that one.  I also like this:

I could easily do that, but I don't know where I am going to put all that stuff....I'll find somewhere ;)

I am planning on building a shelf with more cubbies along the top like the one above and adding it to the existing entertainment center.  I could also just add a piece with crown moulding to make it look like this one:

I am also going to refinish this and the master bathroom vanity with the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation that I plan on doing the kitchen cabinets with.  You can read about that here.

Now on to something a little more beachy and polished looking.  Like I mentioned in a previous post I love the beach!  So, I made a little centerpiece inspired by spring and the beach.  It's on a mirror that I took off the bathroom door for the girls bathroom.  I like it because it's sparkly and reflects light from the chandelier!

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Make your life beautiful!
-Kari