So I painted the living room and dining room. It has been 6+ years since I first painted this space, and it was time for a change. I’ve been over the coral color for a while, and then all of a sudden, I couldn’t stand it one more day. I was craving something more neutral […]
Declutter 2015: The Dining Room
Challenge: I am tasking myself with going through my entire house and getting rid of everything that we don’t need anymore. I’m also taking this opportunity to repair things that are broken, eliminate annoyances, develop new systems, and just streamline as much as possible. I’m going to tackle one area/room at a time and won’t move […]
Dining Room: An updated look
I’ve finally taken photos of my mini dining room revamp. This room just needed a little sprucing up. Decluttering and accessorizing… and new chairs. We needed new chairs badly. The wall colors stayed the same, and most of the furniture stayed where it was. But I made minor changes like repainting the molding and lengthening […]
THE most comfortable chairs are now in my dining room
Our new dining chairs are here! And they coordinate with the freshly painted table pretty well (in that non-matchy matchy way, of course). Before Our old chairs were those ubiquitous wood Windsor-ish chairs that I’ve seen in every thrift store I’ve ever been in. They were not special and very not comfortable sitting for long […]
Refinishing our “plain jane” dining table
I’m sprucing up our dining room and the most obvious thing that needed help was the dining set. It’s from my husband’s bachelor days and not what I would choose myself. The chairs are on their way out, but the table fits the scale of the room pretty well and it’s solid wood. Before We […]