My dining area

This is how it looks today...

The light fixture that started it all.

Check out my table...only $80. It was a horrible shiny brown. I sanded it down, painted it, and distressed it. A while later I decided I would sand the paint off the top and stain it. Love the way it turned out.

framed plates...

One day as I was going through my house, trying to get organized, I came across a large print that I had stored under my bed. I thought that I would paint the frame, get a new mat and hang it on the wall by my kitchen table. Well, my sweet boys decided it would be fun to throw a ball at my picture...the glass broke. I was a little mad, but am happy with the end result; a frame without glass, perfect for my plate display.

I have seen numbered chairs in magazines and on blogs a lot lately. I really like the idea, so I got a stencil and painted numbers. I tried them in black first, a bit too stark for me, so I went with the same color as I have on my walls, "Monks Cloth." After the paint dried I went over the numbers with sand paper, just to give it a bit of an aged look.

My chairs...the one on the left has a brown glaze. After looking at the chairs side by side for a few days, I decided to go without the glaze. Although it does bring out the details of the chair a bit more, I thought the brown interfered with my wall color too much.

This is my textured wallpaper that I got at Lowe's for only $20. It was my first wallpaper project and it turned out surprisingly good. After I got it on the wall, I hung some chair rail, painted it (wallpaper & chair rail) "pure white" in semi-gloss, and love it! And that darling little pillow...got it at a little antique/consignment store back East for a mere $4.

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