My Dining Room

As I mentioned, my camera is broken.  The lens will not auto focus, so these pictures are a little bit blurry.  I apologize.

My silver dining room table is solid oak (and bloody heavy!), and seats 6 comfortably but we have squished 8 people around it.  It was $900 and worth every penny.  We got it a few of years ago at Urban Barn (a Canadian store). The black shears on the windows are from Ikea - $10 for a package of 2.  Best deal ever.  The curtains are made from silk fabric (same as in the living room). My Mom sewed them.

 We searched for a couple of years after that for chairs to go with it.  Impossible.  Then we found them....

...at Ashley Furniture.  This is what they looked like before.  Do you believe it? Yellow plaid fabric? Ew! So we bought the sapphire velour fabric and recovered them ourselves.  If you've never recovered a chair, it is seriously so easy.  All you have to do is take the seat off the chair, take the fabric off the seat (usually they are just stapled on, so use a flat head screwdriver and set of needle nose pliers) trace the old fabric onto the new stuff, cut it out and use a staple gun to staple the new fabric on.  Easy peasy!

The chandelier was on sale for $300 (from $600!) at Chintz & Co.  A pretty good deal, I'd say. 

 The artwork is The Lament for Icarus by Hebert Draper.  We bought the print when we were in London, England and had it canvas mounted and framed for pretty cheap at Costco.  They do an excellent job there.

I admit my table is never set with plates, glasses, napkins and cutlery.  I have a toddler so it's not really possible to leave things out.  But, it looks pretty, no?  My china is Mikasa "Satin White", glasses are La Rochere, napkins are from about 10 years ago at Pottery Barn and the cutlery is Presidents Choice - cheapy cheapy set from a grocery store.  Not that you can see any of that stuff.  I hope to get my camera fixed very soon.

Asher's Room

I had a vague idea of how I wanted Asher's room decorated.  And I changed my mind several times.  This is the outcome, and I love it.  I never ever want it changed, but I know one day he'll want it painted camo or something like that.  Maybe I'll move him into the office so I can leave this room as is.

I don't have any before pictures, but it was the same color as the rest of the house - boring ass beige.

I just noticed that the lightbulb in the chandelier ($60 from Walmart) is burnt out.  Gotta change that.  The chair and side table were my Grandpa's - I had my Mom recover the chair in charcoal wool ($300 for the fabric) and I refinished the table with high gloss white spray paint.  The grey curtains are from Ikea ($30), same with the white sheers ($20).  The bottom paint color is Approaching Storm by Ralph Lauren, the top is white and grey (I don't remember the names, but they were from Benjamin Moore and I'd never recommend that place to anyone), but the grey stripes have a silver coating on them.  It was soo much work, but I love the results.  Thank you Carl!

A better look at the corner.  The crib is from Sears ($400), bedding is home made - sewn by my Mom.

That table is so 70's.  I love it!  Spray paint was $10.

The print on the wall was from some very good friends of ours.  It's so cute!  Lamp is from Ikea ($10), marble side table was $40 but my sister gave it to us for Christmas.

Frames were on clearance at Michaels ($7 each) and spray painted with high gloss black ($10).  The prints are by Mark Ryden - a box set I bought several years ago.  The set is called "Bunnies and Bees".  Each print works out to $3.

Shelf - $10 from Ikea.  

I paid $49 for this dresser in 1993.  The knobs are from Lee Valley ($6 each, a bit of a splurge), and Carl added the white moulding (cut it himself, and glued it on).  The change pad cover was $30.

The mirror was originally $100 from a Home Depot type store, but because it was chipped in many places we got it for $50.  Then we spray painted it with high gloss black.

Bunny - gift from Grandma.  

$5 vase again.  Blocks from Etsy - $25.  I'm not crazy about the color.  I might change them one day. The "A" was used at Asher's shower/meet the baby party.  My sister made it.

A closer look at the bedding.  The turquoise fuzzy stuff was on sale for $5 a meter, and the bird fabric is organic cotton from Etsy.  It was $15 a meter.

I think I might put a stick on monogram above the bed.  Like this:

My God those look so fake...but anyway, I thought of doing a large A with the dots around it.  And, wow do I ever love that fabric curtain around the head of the bed. I even love the pom pom trim!

So, for all the items listed above plus paint, the room came to approx. $1400.  Not too shabby :)