An Experiment in Sanding
Alternate title: How we banished the 80′s from our dining room. FINALLY. You see, our dining room used to be filled with a mish-mash of horrible 80′s fabric. Our 8 chairs had four different fabrics on...
View ArticleBright & Breezy Curtains
Corey and I have been going back and forth for months on what we wanted to do for curtains in our dining room. Our first plan was to get some bright yellow, geometric-patterned curtains to contrast a...
View ArticleDining Room Inspiration
Remember the mothership-style light fixture in our dining room? The one that looked like this when we first moved in? And then remember how we gave it a quick makeover a few months ago and made it...
View ArticleA Handmade Dining Room Light
I’m so excited to finally share this project with y’all – it’s been a long time coming! Oh, and this post also just happens to serve as my participation in the Pinterest Summer Challenge! If you...
View ArticleInjecting Some Color…
…into the dining room. Finally! Y’all, Corey and I have worked hard on our dining room so far. We found the dining room table of our dreams, painted and reupholstered some cute chairs, added some...
View ArticleA Back Door Upgrade
This is one of those projects that was definitely not on our list of things to complete anytime soon. Our back door wasn’t anything special, but it certainly wasn’t bad enough to actively bother us,...
View ArticleA Reindeer Canvas + A Christmas Table
Remember how I told you that I bought two canvases and I was working up the courage to actually do something to the second one? Well, I did it! That’s right, I finally got around to finishing up the...
View ArticleI Swore I’d Never Do This…
You know how there are those things in your house that are in no way pretty or fun to look at, but they’re functional and kind of necessary so you deal with them? You know – things like toilets, trash...
View ArticleThe New Windows!
I can’t believe we’ve had these new windows in for two whole week and I’m just now talking about them. They’re pretty. I want to kiss them. (I do. Sometimes. Shh. Don’t tell anyone.) I explained a...
View ArticleSo We Don’t Go Blind…
Remember way (way, way) back last year when we got some new windows? Well, when we did that, we took down all of the blinds on the windows we were replacing (obviously) and have been (very) slowly...
View ArticleCleaning House
Y’all, I’m so excited to share this. So! Excited! Let’s just jump right in – because, really, I can’t wait any longer. Mmmmm. Yeah, that’s my dining room. I’m in love. But, let’s back up for a second....
View ArticleCurtains & Chairs
Ever since we added some new flooring in the dining room, Corey and I have been all about working on the room. Something about that shiny, happy new floor just makes us want to make the rest of the...
View ArticleCrisis Averted
Since Corey and I currently live in a two bedroom duplex and have been living away from our parents’ homes for about 4 years now, we have pretty much everything we need when it comes to moving into the...
View ArticleFilling Up Our Empty Room
For the first few weeks that we lived in our new house, this is what our dining room looked like: We had eight chairs to go around a dining room table (8 very ugly, desperately in need of a makeover,...
View ArticleCrate & Barrel Basque Table Review
Do you have a formal dining room? If so, do you actually use it? Most people don’t. Growing up I had one and we really only ate in it when we had guests – the rest of the time we ate dinner in the...
View ArticleDIY Instagram Photo Display
Sometimes, I get frustrated by the disconnect between the amount of photos I take on a daily basis and the amount of photos I actually have displayed somewhere in my home. I love taking photos of our...
View ArticleOur New Dining Room Chairs
Our dining room has come together really nicely over the years – considering where we started with this room, I would definitely say we have come a long, long way! One thing that has bothered Corey and...
View ArticleOur Simple Fall Tablescape
There’s something bittersweet about this fall season for me. It’s always my favorite season (cooler weather! Christmas is coming! Gorgeous colors!) and I really am trying to make the most of it so far,...
View ArticleOur Dining Room – Before & After
Corey and I are currently packing up and moving into our new home. While we’re busy over the next couple of weeks, I’m sharing a look back at our first home throughout the years. You can see the living...
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