The first room is the dining room. I am annoyed with myself because I was so anxious to jump right in it that I forgot to take official "before" pictures. I was able to get a couple of blurry pictures on my phone though that will give you somewhat of an idea of what this old-fashioned, wall-papered, mess looked like before.
This was one the only pictures I have of our dining room before the makeover. I know it is a poor excuse... I was really taking a picture of our cat, Frank, sleeping and not the room itself! As you can see though it was a big, giant, wallpaper disaster....
Since our house is so old, it was built old-fashioned. It goes in one giant circle (back then this helped with air-flow since the didn't have air conditioners.) Anyway, this picture (taken from my phone) shows where one of the useless doorways were. This particular one led into our room-we had 3 doorways in our bedroom alone and no doors to go on them, not to mention they are all different deminsions and not a normal door size. It would've cost a fortune to get custom doors so Matt put up drywall!
I am so proud of my handy-man! You wouldn't even know that there was a doorway there! Frank is a little bummed that he can no longer run endless circles late at night and disturb us.
I don't mean to offend anyone by insulting wallpaper, I like wallpaper, just not old, floral wallpaper. I knew I wanted the room to be a mixture of calm and comfort, but also represent our love of eclectic, rustic, and vintage things. So I chose the blue and Matt hesitantly agreed. As you will see in later pictures the blue coordinated with our living room (you can see one room while in the other, so I wanted it to flow.) The wood frames around the doors and baseboards is the original to the house. I was never that crazy over them like Matt was but I am really starting to like them with the new color on the walls!
It isn't as apparent in the pictures but the dining room is HUGE! It is the biggest space in the house. So because of that, our table is too teeny tiny for the room! Fortunately my sweet husband is building a table out of old doors for my birthday (Nov. 22) that will be a lot more size appropriate for such a big space. I can't wait to post about it!
We will probably be getting rid of the chair once we get the new table, or at least covering it with new fabric.
We are really proud with how are shadow boxes turned out- we used a couple of old vintage milk crates that I had been using for photography props, but I think our wall needed them more! Right now they have Halloween decorations on them!
Billy Buttons are one of my latest obsessions... These paticular ones are from our wedding.
We used one of our engagement pictures in this one and the cute little birds were our cake toppers at our wedding (which I will be doing a post over very soon!)
Dried lavender... another one of my favorites.
My table setting so far. At our wedding we used mix-matched china and I saved my favorite pieces to use at home. The pumpkins are my attempt at fall decorating!
Thats it for now! Keep checking back for more pictures as we continue to do more!
