Table Set-Up

So our dining room furniture vendor sent us some pictures of a table set up that shows our table and our chairs all set up with different fabric end chairs.

Take a look:

So having seen this, what do you think of doing a different colour chair at the ends...like this (but with dark legs):



It is a charcoal grey velvet.  What say you?

Dining Room Furniture - In Progress

I've just received some pictures of our dining room furniture in progress - it should arrive mid-December so we are pretty excited (and hopeful that they arrive before Christmas!).

Here is the chair (it is finished). We had it custom made so the cushion would pop out so we could change the fabric down the road.

Here is the sideboard - no stain or knobs. This is what I'm most excited about!

And here is the table. We had it custom made a bit narrower than usual since we have such a skinny dining room!

Here's hoping it makes it safe and sound off the shipping container!!

Photos of the Painted Dining Room

Yep - this is the room that made me throw down my paintbrush and give up.  After that fiasco, we took extra time and taped up everything and finished painting it this past weekend.  J did most of it this time (I had done all of the trim work myself) and it went pretty quickly.

It is dark out, so hard to get a good shot - but here are a few:

Note the ugly tiled fireplace. Old owners just used the cheap tile leftover from the bathroom and it doesn't really go with much. We'll fix it up one day!

The dining room is just waiting for our dining set to arrive (now postponed until mid-December). The buffet will go on the right I think, with a large mirror on the opposite wall.

The furniture in here is not staying - just temporary until we get the right stuff eventually.  Okay the couch stays, but the rest are stand-ins :-)

Not sure if I've shown this yet - this was our $45 find at the Cabbagetown festival. It is on wheels!!  I'm planning on painting it and putting it my dressing room once I find the perfect vanity. It is in rough shape on the top, so I won't feel bad when I paint it white!

Anyways - there is some eye candy since I haven't shown an 'after' in a while!

Decor Question

Quick question for those of you with style/design sense...

If you had walls that were this colour:

Side chairs that look like this:

What colour end chairs would you pick from this site:

http://www.restorationhardware.com/rh/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod1613175&navCount=4

Let me know your thoughts!

Weekend Project - the Dining Room!

So I decided that this weekend I wanted to paint the dining room.  It's one room with 2 windows and 2 doorways. How tough could that be, right?

We had to go get some extra trim paint but we already had the wall colour. However, in typical fashion, I decided when I was at the paint store to get some more wall colour. A new shade? Nope. Same shade, different paint.

Remember how I told you about the steal I found on the hallway paint? Well we had bought that paint and had it tinted to the darker colour we wanted for the dining room. The paint type was eggshell, which many people told me would be fine for the hallway and really the whole house if I wanted.

We painted the hallway in it and while I like the colour, the sheen bothers me because we have wonky plaster walls (as is typical in a house like this) and the sheen hilights every bump and crack. Ugh.

So I bought our wall colour in matte/flat.  Hubs thought I was silly, but I think it is the right move.

Will we repaint the hallway? HELLS no.  It was the WORST to paint the hallway and I will NEVER do it again.

Here is a before picture:

I know - it was actually already really nice (IMO).  However, we don't have all that many renos to do so we'd like to feel like we've made our mark and that it is our house and not the previous owners' you know?

I also took one more picture to highlight the blue crown mouldings - see if this one is more descriptive.

So you can see that the left is the side I had just painted and the right is what it used to be. It looks white, but let me tell you. It was baby blue/white.  In my painting I found that the walls used to be dark green and at one point red, so it isn't so surprising anymore that the mouldings were blue!!

So hubs is out for the day but I've convinced him to tackle the walls this afternoon/evening :-)