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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…
Burlap and Jute Give Wonderful Texture to this Table Re-Do
Let’s just start out right away with the before:
Here are the things I like about this table… I like that it has storage, I like the shape, I even like the wood graining technique on the brown part. But I do not like and never have liked the green panels with the flowers. They just aren’t painted in my favorite style or something…
I’ve been debating with myself ever since I bought this little table/cabinet from HomeGoods several years ago, why did I buy it if I didn’t like the way the green part looked… but since I did buy it that way, didn’t I need to ‘live with it’? I typically would have no problem selling it, but the size and shape and storage have been so darn useful, that I haven’t wanted to totally part with it.
But guess what? I finally came up with what I think is a great way to re-do it… well just the green panel parts… I decided to use click here to read the rest of the story…
Blast From the Past… Our House Dining Room Series: Our House… Dining Room Table… Finally!
Since it’s summertime with more folks taking time for vacation and travel, and well, because I’m in the midst of another remodeling project that is taking all my time and energy, and since I have a ton of new followers that possibly haven’t read about the dining room, (thank you!!) I thought it’d be fun to revisit some stuff I wrote at the beginning of when I started to blog… (sounds like a long time ago, but was actually less than a year ago) anyway, for the next few times I’ll be re-playing the series I did on the dining room at ‘Our House’…
This has been a long time coming. I started to show you a tour of our “garage turned dining room” in January, but then I was delayed in showing this corner because it’s where I had tons of stuff stored for renovations on the “Little Brick Cottage”, but finally, it’s ready to be seen by blogland!
Finally you can get the Read on…
Wedding Reception… North Carolina Style in the Pavillion… Lighting up a Magical Night
Earlier this summer I went to North Carolina to take part in helping decorate for a friend’s daughter’s wedding and reception.
Both the wedding and reception were held outside on the groom’s parent’s property. Some of the tables were on the dock, some on the patio just outside the pavilion and some Read on…
Blast From the Past… Our House Dining Room Series
Since it’s summertime with more folks taking time for vacation and travel, and well, because I’m in the midst of another remodeling project that is taking all my time and energy, and since I have a ton of new followers that possibly haven’t read about the dining room, (thank you!!) I thought it’d be fun to revisit some stuff I wrote at the beginning of when I started to blog… (sounds like a long time ago, but was actually less than a year ago) anyway, for the next few times I’ll be re-playing the series I did on the dining room at ‘Our House’…
Our House: Strategic Planning, Taking it from Garage to Studio to Dining Room, Chapter 1
This is what it is today, but when we first bought “Our House” it was a different story…
Here’s Chapter 1 of the story. Before we bought “Our House”, 15 years ago, I used to say that I couldn’t stand those houses, so commonly built in the 1980’s, that not only completely forgot the wonderful charm of the front porch, but in its place, put a big garage door to greet visitors. And I’d never, ever buy one of those houses designed in that un-welcoming manner.
My Second Favorite Animal is a Songbird… Painting this Table Shows It
My 7 year old granddaughter always asks me what my favorite animal is… I always answer with ‘dog’. But now, she’s starting asking me what my ‘second’ favorite animal is since she knows ‘dog’ is my ‘first’. I love a lot of animals, elephants are for sure way up at the top of my list, but they don’t live around me, so picking an animal that is influencing my daily life, I think I’d have to say my ‘second’ favorite is/are songbirds.
I love the security of the promise Jesus tells us in Matthew 6: 26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?” (Love that verse!)
So when I decided to paint a wicker side table, that has a wooden round top, I decided that an American Redstart songbird would be the design in the center. READ ON…
Our House: Vintage Enamel Top Table finds New Life on the Porch
I’m so happy to tell you that the ‘pergola-turned-porch’ is done, I’ll do a full reveal on Tuesday, July 3 of that, but for today, I wanted to show a table I have on that finished porch:
This crackle paint treatment is the real deal! I have done nothing to it, age and years of being outside in the elements did to it. READ ON…
Our House… Ah… Life is Good in the Sunroom
At ‘Our House’, just off the kitchen is the sunroom. It’s everyone’s favorite place to be. When we first bought this house over 15 years ago, this room looked a little different than it does… ok, it looked a lot different, and it wasn’t the fav then.
So there you have it.
The End….
Ha.
Come on now, you know I wouldn’t be done without a few words about it, right? Read on…
Our House… Dining Room Table… Finally!
This has been a long time coming. I started to show you a tour of our “garage turned dining room” in January, but then I was delayed in showing this corner because it’s where I had tons of stuff stored for renovations on the “Little Brick Cottage”, but finally, it’s ready to be seen by blogland!
Finally you can get the Read on…
Lightening up the Living Room: How about the Popular Table?
Can you believe it? I haven’t shown you very much of “Our House”, and now I’m already changing it…the “popular” table has once again found a new location. If you recall I had this table in the West bedroom…and that seemed perfect, for the time, but not for this time. Here’s where it used to be:
It really was charming in one of the guest bedrooms in ‘Our House’ but alas, I must be willing to at least try new things… Read on…
