Category Archives: Dining Room
Someone Else’s House: Bungalow Dining Room Details
So far in this dining room, I’ve shown you the difference in the chandelier, from dated to a more fitting style for the house, as well as the big before and after pics of the room.
So let’s get into the details… It is the details that can sometimes make or break a room. click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House… Antique Craftsman Style Home’s Dining Room ReDo
The dining room in this antique craftsman is now gorgeous!
This is the dining room that belongs to the young couple of the home which I’ve already shown you the Master Bedroom, the Anthropologie Styled Bathroom, the Creatively Numbered Stairway, with the Amazing Closet Transformation, the Amazing DIY Wall Pot Rack, the Living Room Fireplace, with Horse Inspired Details, and now here is the before and after of this now gorgeous dining room.
The dining room has through the decades click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: A Fireplace with a Few Confessions…
In the family room at ‘Our House’ I recently installed a fireplace and brick chimney chase all by myself!
You maybe noticed it in this picture I showed you a little bit ago when I told you how I turned these plantation shutters I found on Craigslist into a giant folding screen behind the sectional.
Well, there on the right is the brick chimney and fireplace I installed, all totally on my own.
A Little Getaway at a Gorgeous Victorian B&B
We recently were given an amazingly generous gift package from our son and daughter-in-law to a B&B in Stillwater, MN at The Rivertown Inn.
(This is the ‘wallpaper’ in the dining room… They had an artist somehow photocopy or reproduce a painting onto large canvases and then hung that canvas on the wall like wallpaper, and then embellish it by hand with paint. It looks amazing in person, like a huge oil painting on the walls!)
A little about the history of Stillwater, the oldest town in Minnesota, it is a picturesque town sitting on the St. Croix River across from Wisconsin and absolutely filled with Victorian homes and mansions, amazing shops with tons of choices for antiquing. It’s for sure a destination town and well worth the trip.
And the place we stayed, The Rivertown Inn, was over the top in opulence and décor! The amazing attention to detail with no expense spared for this antique B&B is remarkable. High end finishes throughout, both inside and outside… click here to read the rest of the story…
Happy Easter! Bringing You this Hope with Some Pics of Last Year’s Easter Table…
Happy Easter! Here are pictures of how I did the Easter tablescape last year. (Hopefully next year, I’ll do this year’s table)
Our dining room was click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: And Then There Was Grass!!
A couple weeks ago I did 5 day series on how I created the Easter tablescape this year in our dining room.
If you missed any of those 5 days, here are the links:
Day 1: DIY Easter Pots
Day 2: Jute Wrapped Eggs
Day 3: Mod Podge Eggs
Day 4: Building a Planter from Scrap Wood
Day 5: Putting it all together
I’ve been promising an update on the grass growing situation… did it grow? Or did I have to figure out a DIY project to create some faux grass?
Well, the wait is over, finally, the answer, I know you all have been sitting on the edge of your seats wondering…
and since we all just love those before and after pics…
Yay!
I’m glad to announce that I click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Sideboard Finished for Easter
Details can make such a difference in decorating. The other day I showed you the mini E-A-S-T-E-R peat pots that I made and put on top of the sideboard mirror ledge.
Once I had them up there I realized that the sideboard needed a little bit more to finish the look.
What do you think? Here’s the before and after:
I had most click here to read the rest of the story…
DIY: E-A-S-T-E-R Baskets
Last week I share a really fun little craft project I made for part of the dining room Easter centerpiece at ‘Our House’. (if you missed that post, click here to see it)
I had so much fun making those transformed peat pots, and wanted to be able to use a few more of the wonderful Easter graphics from Graphics Fairy that I came up with a similar craft, but with a little bit of a creative twist.
So I embellished them a little bit more and spelled out E-A-S-T-E-R on each little peat pot.
Here’s how I did it: click here to read the rest of the story…
Five Days to an Easter Centerpiece, Day 5
Yay! Here we are, at Day 5!!
All the work of creating the separate elements for the Easter centerpiece is over, (1. Peat Pot Transformation 2. Jute Wrapped Eggs 3. Mod Podge Eggs 4. Scrap Wood Planter Cover) and now put together to create a tablescape.
Here are some details on how/why the tablescape is how it is…
First off, here’s a tip on where I bought this lovely burlap… click here to read the rest of the story…
Five Days to an Easter Centerpiece, Day 4
Today is the big surprise! I’ve been anxious to show you what I made for the dining table’s Easter centerpiece as it’s been carefully hidden from the past 3 day’s camera angles…
Day 1 of the Peat Pot Transformation.
Day 2 of the Jute Wrapped Eggs.
Day 3 of the Mod Podge Eggs.
And now here it is, a planter cover created from salvaged wood.
This chunky board came from when we renovated ‘The Little Brick Cottage’. It was click here to read the rest of the story…
