A Dining Room Turned Office

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*Update–the office now has wood floors!* Dining rooms are so overrated right? :)  Since I had been wanting to redo the dining room for quite some time now, the hubby and I decided to turn it into an office.  Because in all honesty, the formal dining room was used as an actual dining room maybe [...]

Feeling Discouraged

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This will be a bit of a pity party post, sorry.  I’m discouraged about our dining room.  And I’ll go ahead and tell you that we have turned it into an office, so there, the secret is out.  :) I REALLY wanted gray, as that is what I am loving at the moment.  But will [...]

All You Wanted to Know About Gray Paint

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It’s a very tricky color.  I could end this post with just that line and that would give you enough information.  But, I won’t do that to you and will tell you another little paint journey I just had. Maybe I should rename this post “when bad things happen to good people.”  Because I am [...]

Crushin’ on Quatrefoil

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I’m sure you’ve seen this design everywhere by now right?  Do you love it as much as I do? I really would like a rug for the new dining room, and I think a rug like this would look great. Oh gosh I just love it!  It is from Ballard’s and I SO wish it [...]

Fabric Wall Art, and Sneak Peek

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I know framing fabric is nothing new for many people, but I finally just did it yesterday .  I frame everything else, so why not fabric right? I bought a yard of this fabric at Ikea. It’s a deep charcoal gray color.  I just love it.  They have some pretty cool fabrics at Ikea. It’s [...]

Do You Notice Anything Different…

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About this picture? If you guessed that my chairs are missing you’d be correct.  I sold them on Craigslist for a nice chunk of change. :)  I did keep one chair just because they are SUCH great chairs.  I can always cover it.  I still need to sell the table. Remember when I said I [...]

The Evolution of Our Dining Room

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This post takes a lot of courage y’all.  It should be quite humorous for you, embarrassing for me.  Just remember that everyone starts from somewhere and has to make do with what they have, and people’s decorating styles change okay? :) Here is how our dining room looked for about a year after we moved [...]

Crown Molding in Dining Room w/Tutorial

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Well me and the hubs did a DIY project all by ourselves!  We installed crown in our dining room.  It was actually very easy, inexpensive, and anyone can do this, trust me.  I love doing things to our home that adds value, and architectural features definitely do that.  I’ll give a brief tutorial as I [...]

My Prized Possessions…Hutch and Buffet Redo

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Have you inherited an ugly piece of furniture whenever you got married?  I have.  It was our dining room buffet table.  I’ve lived with it for 4 years now, and it was time for an overhaul when I found this hutch at Goodwill to go on top of it. Goodwill had it marked for $99, [...]