The Sunset Lane

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

My dining room....is getting there! plus the befores

Yesterday, I showed you my dining room, but blogger wouldn't let me load stuff and after an hour I just posted what I had gotten done on the post. So, today I finish the post!

Plus, I didn't tell you...... the Grocery sign is made from the inserts in your dresser designed to keep your clothes from falling to the underneath drawer!!

I totally forgot to show a pic of the dining room before and then an after so you can compare. Blogger was being a booger for me, so I didn't make the list of crap I had done either. :) So here we go!

Dining Room

before

This is the pic before we bought it.

A similar view, but after :)

Another before

Another After :)

look closely and you can see I haven't painted the kitchen area yet!

One last before

And My lovely after:

Okay my list of stuff we've done:
1. Painted it green-decided I didn't like it and repainted Ralph Lauren Cobblestone which is my go to neutral color (LOVE IT!)
2. Painted all the trim white-it was an orangey golden oak color-YUK!
3. Yanked up all the carpet-for now we are living on subfloors and my Pier 1 rug that is too small for under the table. It's way better than someone's dirty carpet. Plus, way easier to clean up spills-it is a dining room after all.
4. Made some art for the walls-more on that later.
5. Hung the kid's art gallery wall
6. Replaced the crappy misplaced fan and weird bug filled globe light with my Pottery Barn Knock-Off Chandeliers.
7. Redid some freebie stools my mom scored me from her apartment that were getting thrown out!
8. Got bamboo blinds from Payless Decor

Remember when I talked about my green chair inspiration. Well, I am hoping to have some headway with that project soon!

I am currently working on all my dining chairs. I scored these chairs from H4H (Habitat for Humanity) for $2 each during their Memorial Day Sale.

I actually already had 2 from a while back, so I have 10 matching dining chairs for $16-can't beat that with a stick!! I have taken all the seats off and primed them. Two of them are green and I am slowly getting them done. To tell you the truth I am not totally sold on the green. I really want to paint them all white or black or charcoal-but I know that's the safe thing to do so we'll see. It's only paint and time, I can always redo them again.

More on those later!
Now the red folding chairs at my table now are outside chairs I brought in when we had friends over last weekend, they looked like this before:

A few coats of red Krylon spray paint later and.....

I didn't prime them or sand them-they are outside chairs and that was too much work!! Just dusted them off and scraped a little loose paint.

-Make your life beautiful!!

Monday, June 27, 2011

Some pics of Crap I've been doing!

Summer with a baby and 2 big kids is crazy hectic! Since I quit working (after having Audrey), I crave adult interaction! This blog is part of my "grown-up play date", but I am also a 'let's have everyone over to our house for dinner/games/whatever gets them here' kind of girl! Mr. TSL is more of a 'can't we get together somewhere else' kind of guy, but he lets me be a loon every once in a while! He totally has fun once everyone is here, but I might or might not (okay totally always) run around like a crazy woman trying to clean every detail of every aspect of my house because everyone is coming over. I think this is the part he dislikes.

I am also a complete control freak when it comes to making the dinner/side dishes/dessert. I am always afraid to give up power because inevitably someone will screw up my idea. Probably this also drives Mr. TSL nuts!

Last weekend I had some friends over for games, we had a blast! Plus, I cleaned like a crazy woman and got pics of stuff before it was destroyed! What's funny is I don't care if the whole house is messy when everyone leaves, so long as it was magazine photo shoot ready when they get here!

So here are some pics of the dining room: