Dining Room Reveal

It's been a busy, busy time but things are finally slowing down for us.

I've shown in my last posting our living room, we added 

curtains for a little more privacy

I need to do something though with the bottom of the curtains, I like curtains to touch the floor but the end of those are a scalloped finish  so not sure how I can change them, maybe add fabric to the top, hmm? That's another post.

So the dining room space, which is off the living room.

I will start with before and the after:

Before:

Beautiful hardwoods that just needed freshening up, dirty ceiling and a light fixture that was ripped out.

After:

Smooth clean white ceilings with a new light fixture.

I want to make a tablecloth out of the drop cloths you can get at the home improvement stores and make a runner for the buffet we're using as a TV stand as well. (winter project)

Before:

This is during the renovations. UGH! Every time I see the ceiling before it grosses me how dirty it was and shiny it was. 

After:

Before:

After:

So that's our dining room. 

Our table used to open for an eight seat dinner party, but we had to remove the center piece. There's room to extend it when we need to but for everyday it's best to have it as a six seat.

Next posting will be bathrooms. 

We're so close to being done with the inside, still need to finish the guest suite downstairs, 

our bedroom needs to be touched up and some other little projects.

Thanks for visiting!

Sick and Tired

Since November I have been sick

FOUR times this year.

This last virus, which Doctors don't

seem to know what it is,

has kicked my butt big time!

It took me 15 days to get well,

but to end the virus I

got

PINK EYE!

I thought I was Six years old

all over again!

Today is a good day, it has taken

another week to

feel myself again.

But before I got so sick,

DH and I had another home project.

We went to IKEA,

LOVE LOVE LOVE that place

and we picked out storage.

(one up three more to go)

(you can see what we painted before on the walls, a bright yellow, ugh) 

(finally up now we need to screw into the wall and together)

(this outlet was behind the cabinets and DH did a good job of

exposing it)

(all we have to do now is add the doors, but wait, they were the

wrong size, so another week later we put on the right doors but had

to remove the drawers and redo them, frustrating. Nowhere in the

directions does it say to put on doors FIRST before adding

interior pieces, UGH!)

(while we waited to get the new doors I added all my stuff,

couldn't wait...:) I still have room)

(as you can see one door is missing, we have it but we didn't

realize that these doors needed four hinges, so we ran out, again

NOWHERE in the directions does it tell you how many

hinges you need for these doors....UGH!)

(so we moved our sideboard in front of the window, do you

see my sweet Latte there?)

(you don't realize how tall they are in the store

until you bring them home!)

So hopefully by next week we'll

have our door added

to the pantry.

Our home is lacking in closets.

Love the older homes

but wish they had better storage,

so we added our own.

Two coat closets, a broom closet

and a pantry.

We love it, it has certainly added

something to our home.

Love IKEA but they certainly don't

have the best directions

on their stuff.

But it won't discourage me from

shopping there!