Dining Room Changes

Merry Christmas & Happy New Years Everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and you're now getting ready for a new year.  I know I am!  I'm getting ready for this baby to come out pretty soon (another month, maybe..).  The Christmas decorations have come down :(  It was sad taking it all down because I just felt like I put them up only a month ago!  Why can't we keep our Christmas decorations up all year round?? :) Just kidding...that would be weird.

So we've actually made quite a few changes around the abode in the past few weeks.  Some big (not really) and some small.  Mostly small.  Like painting the hallway that leads from the dining room to the kitchen, painting the half bath (that needed it so dang bad!!), buying a few new things for the living room and moving some things around, adding some huge, tall mirrors in our entry way on the stairs, and then what this post is about; the dining room.  Nothing major, just wanted to show you how pretty it looks now, now that is more complete. But let's take a look at what it looked like before I re-styled it.

And now here she is in all her glory!

 

This is what you see when you walk in.  I moved the two end chairs to the corners of the room and would like to get some little pillows for them so they don't look so naked.  I have set the table for four.  Below, you will see the new set up on the table.

The table runner is new and it's from Home Goods.  The gray place mats are also new, also from Home Goods.  The vases are the same and the candle holder in the middle is from Ross I bought over Christmas time.  Now I hope you notice what's in it...Yep! Sparkly, silver ornaments.  They are staying. :)  I think they look so pretty and really go with the room.

I decided to place the holder on top of my Tiffany plate that I got from a dear friend when I got married.  It is just so beautiful, how can you not show it off in a dining room?  I got some new art pieces for the big wall from Kirklands (allllll on sale).

 

Pretty, huh?  The colors in those pictures go perfectly.  I'm pretty sure it was meant to be.  Oh and because I got them both for $10.99 @ Kirklands.  I just fell in love with the scrolly looking piece.  It totally mimics the scrolls on the rug.  Overall, very satisfied with the big wall.  I have a mirror I bought on Amazon awhile ago that normally hung over our fire place.  Well that mirror was replaced by a MUCH better one (also from Kirklands on sale, more on that on another post). So I decided to stick her in the dining room.

 

Looks better there, for sure.  Here is another view from the hallway.

Oh, P.S. Those white plates on the place mats are from Target.  They are plastic and only cost $1.79 a piece! I really didn't think it would matter if they were plastic...We aren't really going to eat on them, they just for show!

So those are some changes in the dining room!  Hope you like what we've done.  Like I said, we have some other changes in the house I will show you soon.  Have a great New Year's and see you next year! :)

~Kristine

Ahhhhh...The Dining Room

Hello readers!  Whew, I know it's been a while, but once again I have a good excuse!  Being pregnant takes so much of your energy and I just mustered up enough to put this post up BECAUSE I am so excited that we FINALLY bought a dining room table.  YAY!!  We have lived here since December 2010 and have a very nice dining room that has sat empty, or well sort of empty...Exhibit A:

Yeah we still have boxes that MAY need to be un-packed...Oops! :)  And then just random crap.  It's quite embarrassing since you see this room off of the foyer when you walk in! But let's focus on the good stuff.  It's not the biggest room but big enough for a 78" table and 6 chairs and a possible buffet or dresser that looks like a buffet.  Our table is being delivered tomorrow!  Yes!  Can't wait.  Anyways, here are a few more pictures of this room.

Love the chair rail that's already in there for me so I don't have to do it :)  We will be painting the wall under the chair rail white and we will re-paint all the trim a crisp white.  The color above the chair rail will be a beautiful blue color.  We are going to choose a very light blue since the table we bought is a dark coffee color.  Look at this AWFUL light:

Who the heck would put that in a formal dining room?  Yuck.  Luckily my mom has a chandelier that she doesn't need anymore and I more then happy to take it off of her hands.  It just needs a little spray paint.  Look at the fabulous bay windows:

I'll obviously do some fab curtains, just haven't decided what color/pattern.  Here is one more view of the dining room that faces a little hallway that leads to the kitchen.

Thinking of maybe painting the hallway the same color blue as the dining room just to tie it all together.  Then I'll be adding some fab accessories; beautiful table runner, center piece, some art work on the walls with maybe some molding, ooooohh or maybe some pattern wall paper??  Wow, so many ideas! :)  Liam and I are headed to Pensacola tomorrow for a week, so sadly I won't be able to do anything with the room till we get back.  It's our last little "vacation" trip before he starts school!! (Oh, sorry, can you sense the excitement in my typing?) :)  

Once we get the table in, I'll snap a photo so ya'll can see it!  AND we got an awesome deal, which is just icing on the cake.  Mmmmm, cake.  Sorry, got side tracked.  I'm pregnant, I like cake. 

Have a good weekend everyone and I'll do a quick little post tomorrow once we get the table! 

Xoxoxo!