Our Dining Room Reveal

I will be posting Our Christmas Room Reveal's soon..  So I wanted to make sure you got to see the way our home looks on a everyday basis first. Here is our Dining room Reveal. We fell in love with our new house for the backyard, the round arched doorways throughout and the fact that we finally had a separate dining area again! Even though it's our least used room in our house :( ..I'm working on changing that! The above before picture shows what it looked like when we purchased, with the previous owners decorating.. It showed very nicely when we saw it for the first time, it just wasn't our style.. As I have said before in previous posts.. We had professionals refinish all the hardwood flooring to a dark 'Ebony' tone. We actually didn't paint the walls in here, just added lots of our painted furniture for a softer, lighter look. To make the room appear bigger we switched the table direction to come out from the window. And changed out the old chandelier and all the window hardware and curtains to new, natural linen light weight curtains with white cotton sheers underneath. See more below.

In the corner of our dining room we have a mini bar cart set up. It is a metal stand with a marble top. It features a silver tray and a mix of empty vintage decanters and a glass ice bucket which I got from Homesense a few years ago. I'm not a true drinker.. so I always get flack for the decanters being EMPTY! For me it's just for looks ;)

On either side of the window we hung 2 Antique architectural drawings, framed in simple black Ikea Ribba Frames

Our Current Centrepiece is a wooden box filled with dried hydrangeas and vanilla scented candles. My favourite vanilla candles are the pillar ones from Ikea. Here I used two Hurricane glass vases to hold the ivory coloured candles. And for a little added french flair I wrapped the outside of the candles in a black striped jute webbing.

 

Our Dining hutch provides tons of much needed storage and display space.. currently it holds my granny's dishware set.. I just love the simple floral detail around the edge of the dishes.

I need all the display space I can get.. So I used the top of our hutch to display a few decor items.. A neutral vignette made up of Hydrangeas in a burlap wrapped vase, a wooden bunny and a white soup tureen. With a empty weathered chicken wire garden terrarium on the right side. 

Our Dining hutch was a Kijiji online find for only $75.. I absolutely love the metal grill detail over the glass. It was originally a darker wood, So to make it more my style I painted it Benjamin Moore Natural Linen and changed out the hardware.

See the full transformation here.

 We have 3 different types chairs in this space. I know it sounds like a lot of chairs for one room but because of the material and the colouring of them, they all play nicely together. The head chair's are made from a linen fabric with large metal studs, they were originally used in our previous home's kitchen. They are from Restoration Hardware. The X-back chairs were a Kijiji find that I painted BM Natural Linen to match our hutch and added white linen ruffled slipcovers. You can see the full X-back chair transformation here. Lastly the captain chair's on either side of our hutch are my latest kijiji find!! I fell in love with the french provincial look and the cane back detail .. I will be sharing more info on that amazing transformation coming soon...

Some of our Dining decor... Under one of the shutters I have a Wrought iron urn filled with simple moss balls from Restoration Hardware, displayed with a vintage demijohn jug.

This is our view from our hall into our dining room

Our White dining chandelier wasn't always white.. It used to be gold.. I spray painted it last year. And added the ornate ceiling Medallion for a vintage feel.

Here is Our Dining Chandelier 'Before' when it was Gold.. The white just freshens it up a bit!

See our Previous Dining Room HERE

We hung two wooden clover detail mirrors on either side of our hutch for balance and symmetry. The mirrors were a lucky Homesense find earlier this year.

This is our view from our attached, yet slightly separated Living room. 

Our Dining table is a Mahogany Duncan Phyfe style. Ideally I would love a more farm house style table in here, so for now I added this neutral ticking stripe table runner for a more casual look. The runner is from a great Etsy shop.. I make and sew a lot of items myself but when things are reasonable priced as this one was, sometimes it just easier just to purchase. The runner is a Khaki and Natural tone ticking stripe with a natural ruffle.. It just goes perfect with everything!!

Here is the view from our dining room into our Living room.

Full Living Room Reveal coming soon...

See our Dining Room all dressed up for the Holidays HERE

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Family Room Reveal

Our Family Room is a fairly large room 25x19ft.. so It was kind of awkward to decorate. Yet we still wanted the room to feel super cozy because it was a separate room from the rest of the house. We knew we wanted our family room to be our main TV area as the living room wasn't going to have a TV in it. All I knew is we needed a BIG tv stand/ Media unit.. Especially because the wall was so large and a small stand would get lost on the wall.. so I looked around online and found a few .. Ballard designs and Pottery Barn have some beautiful ones but they were out of our price range as we still needed to buy 2 beds, a sofa/ sectional for living room and a large harvest table for the kitchen.. This new house was costing a small fortune!! Then Finally I found the Media Unit we decided to go with ... It was Ikea's Liatorp!! Once it was delivered, it took a while to put together.. But in the end I LOVE the added storage it gave us! It also has some weight to it and filled up the empty wall space perfectly.

This Room wasn't a complete overhaul. We did Re-finish the hardwood to a darker Java stain which you can see here. We changed the french doors, added Oil rubbed Bronze door handles and hung some curtains to frame and soften the patio doors.

One of the Major things on my Reno list.. was new french doors!!.. The other ones had a floral pattern on the glass and brass in-lay (see picture above). I am sure they were quite expensive at one point.. but I just couldn't stand them...SO we got these new simple ones from Home Depot for approx $150 for the pair. We Love the way they looked BUT what a disaster removing the plastic glass covers.. The doors were pre-sprayed so I thought that would save time???.. Big Mistake!! INSTEAD it took hours to remove the plastic covers, clean the floors and clean the glass panels.. They Literally had random white paint flecks on the Panels still till this day.

Love my new Simple French doors.. Once I cleaned up all the mess! ;)

Here I have a new antique looking wood and iron door leaned agaist the wall. A french provincial chair that I more recently re-covered in natural linen material. And our old dining room Buffet painted in BM Alexandria Beige. Above the buffet we leaned a white -wash painted vintage gold mirror. We also framed the patio doors with oil rubbed bronze curtain hardware with square finials and my fav. Linen with white polka dot curtains.

Our White Media unit was from Ikea. I Just LOVE the Display and Storage space it gives. It allows me to display my Papa's vintage Boat and some other vintage pieces like wooden Boxes that were my other Grandfathers. Also Displayed are various souvenirs from trips I have taken. The Antique ladder that I used to have by our old bookcases now acts more like wall art. Sometimes I switch it up and put the ladder in the corner but it can block my motion detector which kind of defeats the purpose. During the holidays we hang fabric bows off the Ladder.

 

On the walls we hung a large Vintage Map that I had custom framed.  It ideally should be moved more left. But the previous owners left a few screw marks and to avoid repainting,  I just used the same screw spot where they had Art previously.. I know.. Lazy! Which is also why I like the ladder leaned up beside the Map, it fills in the empty wall space better.

Here is a better view of the Liatorp Bookshelves..The right side of the Bookcases holds some Vintage Encyclopedias, Vintage Kodak Cameras from my Parents and our Moss L&C from our wedding.

 Here is a Picture of Our Family Room with the 'Love Collage' still hanging up. Its a mix of white and cream picture frames..  some vintage painted frames and some Ikea and Homesense finds. Also included in our Love collage is a round mirror, a metal script font 'LOVE' sign, a mini chalkboard and lastly a white shadow box with linen backing housing some small trinkets from our wedding.

Here is the Family Room when we were selling the house. I had to take down our Love Collage, In its place I hung a simple Grey Vintage-looking frame with chicken wire inside to fill up the wall space above the couch.  It was kind of sad taking down all our memories, But I knew we would be hanging a smaller version at the new house soon .. I have a new spot already picked out ;)

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