The dining room is waiting for curtains.  I’m waiting for curtains.  I envision floral, something kind of vintage looking.

The search has been on and I finally found something that I like at Target.   Yesterday I tried the gray ones.

Then I tried the cream ones.

Here they are, together.  Someone said they thought they were Pottery Barn curtains.

Now I’ve tried them at night looking from the kitchen into the dining room.  Guess what, dog butt.

And another dog.

  By the way, I love love love the color in my dining room.  I wasn’t sure when I first painted it and was thinking maybe something a little lighter in color but it makes me happy so it’s staying.

So, I love the gray because they are kind of dramatic and fun.  The cream are more subtle, classic and maybe not as “trendy.”   Stay tuned and maybe I’ll make a decision soon!

I was browsing good ol’ CL this morning when I saw this for $40:

After dinner we’ll be going to take a gander at that light.  Hopefully I like it as much in person as I do in the picture.  Then I can remove the mother boob.

Seeing as our dining room here is smaller than our old dining room I think I will move the black buffet out and try to find something more like this:

Or maybe something like this:

I also think some quail or pheasant artwork like this would be great in there:

I really like this mixture of patterns and colors:

That’s all the dreaming I have time for right now. This room might be next on my hit list although I’d really like to get our Master Bedroom to a point where I at least like it. The walls are still brown, the headboard and foot board aren’t attached and there are no curtains on the windows. We don’t even have nightstands that will work.
This weekend I am finishing up the kitchen counter stools so we can actually use them! For now, I’m off to add noodles to my dinner for tonight, Olive Garden’s Pasta Fagioli knock-off.

It’s awesome stuff! I love Stephanie O’Dea and her blog, A Year of Slow Cooking. The recipes are mostly or maybe all Gluten Free which was so helpful last week when I had to make a Gluten Free meal for a MOPS mom. If you haven’t checked out her blog, please head over there!
On Monday make sure to check back as we will all be featuring some of our favorite rooms that were linked up from the Roomspiration Party!  I might be on fb this weekend posting about my light or who knows what so come join me over there! 

Alright, I am down to window treatments in the dining room and I’ve been having a stink of a time trying to find something I like. When I picked the black and white fabric for the chairs I didn’t really think we’d do board and batten. Well, we did and now the table base and chairs are white, the walls are 2/3 white and the walls are blue/green. So I found two fabrics that I like that go well together, so do I recover the chairs with one of the new fabrics? Try and use both in this room along with the black and white chair fabric? Here are pictures of the chair fabric now with both fabrics. Let me know what you think, I’d love some feedback!!!!