Our Dining Room

The dining room seen from the kitchen

(You can enlarge the photo's by clicking on them)

I've shown bits and pieces of our dining room while taking pictures of other things in the house but thought I'd show you a bit more of it. This room was a real mess when we moved in. It took us 3 months to do just the living room dining room and 3 bedrooms. We had to patch the ceiling in the dining room before we could paint it and then we installed crown molding. We replaced the wobbly ceiling fan. The fireplace tiles had to be removed as they weren't covering enough of the wall and floor and there were no spare tiles. Mr Fixit recessed the tiles into the wood floor and we used the pecan floor boards to patch the hole in the living room floor later. We installed new tiles on the floor and walls and tore off the old window  and door trim and replaced it to match what was in other rooms. We then painted the walls Castle Stone and then sanded all the floors throughout the house and applied Waterlox. Four coats of it! This took an extra week because of drying time but it was well worth it. We didn't stain the floors...this is the natural color of the pecan wood.

Mr Fixit took the wood stove out (which was dang heavy!) and cleaned it inside and out and sealed it up then painted it with stove paint and re-installed it. One day we'd like to get a more efficient one but for now this one is fine.

Here you can see a bit more of the old woodstove

As seen from the living room

It's still a room in progress as is the rest of the house. I'm thinking of adding a 'skirt'

around the bottom of the white 'dresser' to hide my cookbooks and other things.

Any idea's on that?

I have more dishes than we need but the set on the white 'dresser' was given to us by our former neighbors from when we lived in the city.

It's Haviland china.

I love my Blue Willow

I LOVE the 'cottage' look with all the white and lots of 'things' around but this is a farm cottage and we do live on a dirt road surrounded by crops of corn, wheat etc so having to dust all those 'things' may get old pretty quick. However...I'm willing to give it a try to get the look I want. (Looks like I'm a sucker for punishment in here!)

I'm thinking of painting this huge 'dresser' but I haven't got my nerve up yet. I really like the color but I don't like the backer board so even if I chicken out on painting the whole thing I'd like to at least replace that with REAL beadboard.

So....I'm throwing it out there and would LOVE to hear your ideas for this room.
Don't be shy...go ahead and say what you think and give me your ideas.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Have a wonderful Tuesday.