Christmas Dining Room

 Wrapping paper from Target rolled into cones.

My garage sale find.  Cute isn't it!?!

I plan on turning the frame vertically but I'm being lazy, that thing is a monster. There's bout a gazillion holes behind it lol. I also framed some wrapping paper... it'll do.

  Didn't care too much about getting a table cloth but I do like my center piece. These balls where part of the first decorations I bought for our first tree. They are glass so I gave them to my mother last year since the little one was able to knock them out the tree. this year I'm borrowing them from her but only using plastic ornaments in the tree.

As you can see I started painting some chairs. I was in a mad rush to get all these projects done but have since mellowed out and taken a chill pill.

Look closely and you can see I've hung some ornaments in the window. The walls are so tall but I think turning the mirror will help fill some negative space.

 I know, I know still looks pretty empty. I'll probably extend the table to help fill some space.  Needs curtains and a rug, which is going to have to wait since we are getting the roof repaired on Wednesday and that's costing us a pretty penny.






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Dining Room

The Last time the hubby was home we bought a dining room table from someone on craigslist for $140, well they were selling it for $150 we offered $130 plus $10 to help us haul it. It ended up fitting in our car and we didn't need them to help us but gave them the extra $10 anyway. While my husband was bringing it home I was quickly clearing out our son's toys. 

This is what it looked like as a "play area".

 

This is the dining room with the table. The table has the extension in it here.

 Of course little guy gotta run into the pic.

I took the pictures that I hung above the TV in the living room and added them to the dining room. Still a long way to go but I think it coming together rather nicely.

Can't wait to paint it black and reupholster the chairs, and get new curtains. Oh and I can't wait till the man of the house comes home and puts the new floors down.

Dining Room?

We so need to get a dining room set. Table, chairs, all that good stuff but in the mean time our dining room is a play area.

Part of that play gate was a craigslist find and 2 of the walls was purchased from ebay. It really came in handy in our last apartment though it was never actually used as a "play pen". I opened it up and used it as a large gate blocking the kitchen, hall, and bathroom.

Bought these stack-able bins yesterday at Wal-Mart. They aren't colorful and fun like other bins for children but they do the job at a fraction of the cost.