Where Did All the Dining Room Furniture Go?

A couple posts ago I gave you a preview on what is going on with my dining room.  Since we ordered new furniture I still had old furniture to deal with.  When I say old, I mean that the stuff is 70 years old. The reason why we wanted to replace it was mainly because the chairs were falling apart as was the table.  I also wanted a larger china closet.  The question was, what do with do with the old set.  We tried Craig's List and Ebay with no luck.  We finally decided to split the set up and low and behold, I was able to sell the table and chairs to someone that wanted a very old set.  We are keeping the sideboard and buffet but I still have this hutch to deal with.

What to do.  I liked the cabinet that was originally there, but thought it was too small and I wasn't thrilled with the scrolls on the top.  So I got my handy dandy floor sliders out and started to move furniture.  The minute I put the china closet in this space I just knew that it belonged.  It was a perfect marriage!

So, what do you think.  Did I make the right choice moving the china closet into the living room?

I started to add some of my favorite things but it still needs a lot of tweaking.  I'm thinking a couple of small wicker boxes might do the trick and I'm sure I'll change it around a dozen times before it's complete!

I now have only one dilema......what do I do with the first cabinet?  Wait until you see my next post on this room.  I painted it today and boy am I tired!

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Spring Mantel with White

Yes, I know that it is not Spring just yet, even though it was 60 degrees in New Jersey today.  I just thought I would get a jump start on the upcoming season.........and my mantel kept on saying, "change me, change me".

So, I threw caution to the wind and changed things up a bit. Since we are redoing the dining room, I decided to take the ironstone out of that room and move it to the family room.  Honestly, this room really needed a change.  And I'm loving the white on the oak mantel.  

I was browsing through Pier 1 Imports one day and found large batches of faux purple lavender in the clearance section, what a deal!  And it looks perfect in the white pitchers.

The white just seems to brighten up the entire room, which I love.  Of course nothing would be complete without the presence of one of my roosters.  I think he is enjoying this new look.    As for all of my blue and white, it all packed away just waiting for the dining room to be finished.  

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Our Dining Room Mess

Wow, where do I begin.  I've missed being on here and now I have to figure out an entire new blogger layout.  Working really took up so much of my time I thought it would be best to put my blog aside for awhile instead of stressing out over trying to post.  While I loved working full time for a few months I am glad that it is back to part-time.  My house is a mess and there are a million unfinished projects going on that I need to finish up.

Since it is still cold in NJ our backyard oasis is on hold until warmer weather and until the township gives us the go ahead on our built in pool.  In the meantime we started redoing our dining room.  Mike has been promising me that he would install wainscot in that room so we started working on that. I've mentioned in the past that I really wanted a new dining room set, that I was looking for a more casual look, well..........we ordered a new set but I didn't go with a casual look.  I went to my favorite store Ethan Allen to browse and fell in love with their Country French look.  My loving husband decided that he didn't want off white furniture.  So after much deliberation we decided to just replace what was broken and falling apart.  The furniture is scheduled to arrive in the middle of April so we have a few more weeks to finish up our project.  Needless to say, both the dining and living room will need to be painted after the wainscot installation.

I am putting a tutorial together about how we built the wainscot which I will post once we are finished.

In the meantime, lets talk furniture and paint colors.  I emptied out and packed up everything that was stored in the furniture thinking that I was going to sell the set.  I guess some things are just meant to be because I couldn't find a buffet that I liked and couldn't sell the set.  This is when we rethought the entire project and decided to keep the buffet and server that I had and just replace the table, chairs and hutch.  This was definitely the right decision because I really felt comfortable with it.  You know when you keep questioning yourself on a decision your making.  Well, I kept doing that until I went with replacing the mahogany furniture.  I guess I am just a traditional girl at heart!

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  Yes, these are pretty sad pictures but it's the best that Ethan Allen would let me do!

A sneak peek of the wainscot going up.  

This is the wall color that I chose. The darker color is the BM Shaker Beige.  I'm just hoping that it doesn't look yellow once it goes up.

So here we have it!   I will be keeping you posted on the progress.

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