Dining Room Update

Many of you won't remember a much early post I had about my small house. I posted here a few months ago about how I added personal touches to my small house to make it feel more like home. Well, since then many, many spaces in my home have slowly been transformed into a completely new rooms. My new favorite in the house is my dining room.

It started out like this...

And now looks like this...

To transform the space I simply...

1) Introduced the farm table. It is an antique piece my husband bought from a local shop. AKA the best birthday present ever! It was a steal too. You might not being seeing it now in its final form, as we plan to replace the casters and clean it up a bit. I hope to retain as much of the original charm as possible.

2) Upholstered and painted white our old wooden Ikea chairs. This cost less than $10.00 per chair, and made quite a difference I think. (You can see the process I used here.)

3) Added a few finishing touches...

...place settings

...new drapes


...and some artwork.

And that was it. It was a cheap and easy fix. It was inspired by the farm table, and pulled together with items I already had around the house. The art work and curtains were stolen from my old living room, seen here. The chairs were simply re-purposed. Maybe this will inspire you to freshen up an old room too. Anyone have any ideas?

I'll be linking to these parties this week. Happy Thursday!