Diningroom reveal

For those of you who have been following, you may remember the before picture of my dining room

I found this picture of a diningroom I loved.

Earlier in the summer I started striping the table and chairs and then stained them black.  This is a picture of the chairs when they were finished

Then I recovered the chair seats.

Then I decided that the white microwave hutch looked awful in the corner so I researched painting laminante furniture on Pintrest and this is what I did.

Two coats of Zinsser Cover Stain Primer

And 2 coats of black Eggshell paint

Here is the whole room.  You can also see my new curtains and a few Fall decorations.  I also had a Pantry Cupboard in the corner you can't see, that is going in the basement until I can replace it with something new.





Not much happening

The last day or so have been pretty boring around here.  I've been working on my diningroom table, I hope to have a picture tomorrow.

I will be taking part in the Cross Canada Blog Hop with some of my fellow Canadian CTMH Consultants, it starts tomorrow so hop over to my Treasured Heart Blog then.

Aaron missed two days of school thanks to Leslie but was back yesterday and today.  Mrs. Oliver, his teacher and Mrs. Tucker, his assistant both say he's doing great.  Mrs Tucker told me today he was trying to answer all the questions verbally, which is great since he only started trying to talk in March.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some pictures for you.

So my fantasy has become a reality

I've always dreamed of restoring, refinishing and redecorating my house.  We moved in to our townhouse just before Aaron was born and it has been full of hand me down and mismatched furniture for the last 5 years.  Needless to say I've had less than a shoe string budget for fixing it up but I finally go fed up and decided to tackle something. I decided to work on the dining room first since that is the first room you see in the house.

This is what the room looked like when we moved in:

About a year later I painted it Salsa:

But I wanted to do something with my dining set, which wasn't actually a set but they work together.  The table belonged to my Great-Grandmother on my Mom's side and the chairs belonged to my Grandmother on my Dad's side.  I really like black furniture so I started searching the internet.

And then I found my dream diningroom

Tomorrow I will show you my progress so far.