The Sunset Lane: mantel

Friday, December 13, 2013

Home Tour: Christmas Tree, Table, Mantle...sneak peek of new floor and kitchen

It's Christmas time in these parts and I hope to ~~clean~~ show you the rest of the Christmas decorations over the next week or so. Plus, Mr. TSL and I (mainly me while he was at work) laid the floor in the kitchen and dining room over 3 days! Pics of that in a sec. We are hosting Christmas this year and I am super excited. I almost alwasy do Thanksgiving and my sister in law does Christmas. This year we switched!

I don't do "theme" stuff for Christmas. Mainly because it would take entirely way too much planning on my part. I often only buy Christmas stuff after Christmas, so I would essentially have to plan a year in advance. Not happening. Plus, all the ornaments on our tree were mine and the mr's from childhood, or our kids picked them out. We rock white and colored lights...I want white, mr and kids want colored lights. We hang both. I am proud to say that other than picking up the brass candlesticks for the table ($10 for all of them on CL) I didn't buy anything for decorations! I am planning to buy some napkins for dinner and maybe 3 disco balls to replace the silver ornaments on the table, but haven't done any of that yet.

As for now, here is our Christmas Dining Room tour.

Because we have so many stockings, we use a gold painted dowel rod hung with some Merry Christmas stocking holders. This WILL NOT hold full stockings. So, when Christmas comes Santa leaves the stockings filled on the floor!

I had been looking for a wool plaid blanket for a while to use as a tablecloth and had all but given up on finding one for cheap. Then, I was helping my mom clean out some boxes and this was in one of them. She told me to throw it away...I kept it.

and that completes our Chistmas dining room tour....now on to some kitchen progress, new chairs, and new rugs.....

The pics are taken in really low light and the cabinets are more of an inky dark gray. The pics are spot on for the fingerprints on the dishwasher though!

Pic of the newi-sh (I've had it for a while and not blogged about it) runner on the stairs.

My new 8x10 Kilim Rug my friend was not diggin anymore, so we traded for a mirror I had from Hobby Lobby and a cake stand I hadn't used in forever! I freakin' love it! Thanks Erin! Plus, aren't those stools amazing....trash that Mr. TSL brought home for me. He brought home 7 of them! The Island is getting a makeover this weekend!

My new chairs I scored on Craigslist for $35 each. The black one was originally bright yellow. Couple coats of paint and the black is much better! I originally thought they were Eames Chairs, but they are in fact vintage Krueger chairs and were advertised as "Fucky Little Chairs" She meant funky, but now they are called fucky chairs.

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SUNDAY: The DIY Showoff

MONDAY: Thrifty Decor Chick, Dittle Dattle,Between Naps On the Porch, Homemaker on a Dime
TUESDAY: Tip Junkie, Today's Creative Blog, Strictly Homemade
WEDNESDAY: Not Just A Housewife Sugar and Dots The Mommy Club
THURSDAY:My Repurposed Life. House of Hepworths, Beyond The Picket Fence, The Shabby Chic Cottage, Somewhat Simple
FRIDAY: Fingerprints on the Fridge, Miss Mustard Seed, Remodelaholic, Chic on a Shoestring, Shabby Nest
SATURDAY: Funky Junk Interiors, Tatertots and Jello

I bought this dresser like forever ago for the girls bedroom.....yes I finished it like 6 months ago....no I haven't posted about it yet :(

Anyhow, it came with this fugly hutch that had a mirror on top. Reminds me of those cheesy waterbed frames. Sorry, if I offended you about the waterbed. I think they kind of, well, belong in porns.

It looked like this before:

Mr. TSL made wraparound sleeve thing for it and then it turned into this:

please note in this photo: I do realize there is a vintage gas can in my fireplace, but that is a chalkboard and not real flames. Generally, chalk doesn't cause house fires and the can has been empty for a number of years! :)