A Sneak Peek!

I've been working on these new dining room curtains for a few days- the goal is to have them finished in time for Thanksgiving! As you can see, I only have the middle window left to finish!

Please ignore the sewing supplies all over the table. :-) These are semi-functional (haha, I'm not skilled enough for completely functional!) faux roman shades. I even lined them with muslin! I'll be so happy to get rid of those awful paper shades. I'm such an amateur seamstress, but these were simple and kinda fun to work on. I need to work on fluffing them out a bit and just messing with them to get them to lay correctly. But, I'm really pleased! I'll tackle that last window this week.

Where I Live Wednesday: The Dining Room

This week I thought I'd show the dining room. It's our only eating area in the house- for our next home I'd love a separate formal dining room. This room (like so many in our house) started off rough. :-) I have very few "before" shots because it really was hideous.

Here is a picture from the house listing:



Random shot, right?

And this was taken the day we moved in:



More gorgeous wallpaper! haha! So this was the first room I attempted wallpaper removal. And, lucky me-- there were about 4 layers!!

Excuse the mess in this picture (my mom was visiting to help with some crafts) but it really shows the craptastic curtains the previous owners had and it shows the beginning of the wallpaper removal.



this was taken in the middle of the wallpaper removal process:



And then there was paint!



I used Restoration Hardware's Spanish Moss and I love it. It's the best paint I've ever used and went on like a dream. The table was a hand me down from my great grandmother and needed a ton of work. It was a temporary solution until we found something we loved. In the meantime I made curtains and decorated just a bit.

A few months ago we found exactly what we were looking for! It's exactly the style I envisioned and fits the space perfectly. Here is the room waiting on the new table to be delivered:



And here is the dining room now:







The details:

The furniture is from a local furniture store.
The paint is Restoration Hardware Spanish Moss.
All artwork and accessories are from Hobby Lobby.
The curtains are all made by me- toile valances on the bay window and burlap panels on the french door.