Today is the final check in before the reveal of our spaces for the 6 week One Room Challenge. Just to refresh, I’ve chosen to makeover my dining room. The theme for the space is Vintage Eclectic with strong boho vibes. I’ve split the space into 2 main spaces and 4 main functions. Dining and Mudroom are the two main spaces. The backdoor is off this room and we have a parking pad out back. So we go in and out this door an awful lot and it makes sense to designate jacket, bag and shoe drop off and storage here. The 4 main functions of the space are getting in and out the door, eating, crafting and blog work.
Our home is 1,200 square feet and there just isn’t the space to have a separate crafting and working spaces. We all enjoy being right on top of each other while we do different activities so that works out just dandy for us!
We made and cancelled plans for wainscotting. Found and lost a dining set. Fell behind on painting and fireplace plans due to a stomach bug. And I’ve shopped.
Yesterday the Craigslist Gods finally parted the heavy rains on me and I found a dining set! $200 was more than I wanted to spend right now, but it came with the table, 5 chairs (including 1 captains chair) and a china cabinet. I quite like the china cabinet I have so I may resell this one. Even though I like the color and style a lot. It’s a tough call! Mine has open shelves and cabinet, this one is all glass cabinet. Whenever I figure this out I’ll resell the one I won’t keep.
Basically, I have all of the pieces to make this happen. But, I need to squeeze out the time to get it all together! I still have the next week and a half to finish up at my day job and hubby has started with a new job and won’t be home much the next couple of weeks. Life threw quite a bit at us this past month. I wouldn’t have thought any of this would happen!
In the next few days I’d really like to:
- Install the new pendant light
- Resize fireplace mantle
- Hang art and lights above fireplace mantle
- Finish getting the junk out of this space
- Finish Painting walls
And what I’d like to get done in the next month:
- Put up wallpaper
- Add some new trim (saving the fun job for another time)
- Refinish the table and chairs
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oooooh i love that set! can’t wait to see it come together!
With All the other stuff life’s been throwing at least it also threw you an awesome dining set. I love it !
Awesome set!! You gotta do what you gotta do when they won’t separate the set just to get to the table sometimes. I have quite a few odds and ends of dining and bedroom sets piling up in my storage unit because I only wanted one piece.
It’s an amazing set! I absolutely love the shape of those chairs!!! I bet Restor-A-Finish would work miracles on that tabletop! I mean, at this point, I should really just get a Restor-A-Finish tattoo and accept my role as their incessant [unpaid] advertiser 😉
Corinna what a fabulous set. I can’t wait for the reveal! I love the direction the space is going in. As a fellow ORC participant it’s been wonderful to gather some fantastic inspiration. I’d love for you to share your progress at Thoughts of Home on Thursday. Our readers would love to see it. The gathering is at http://www.decortoadore.net
Love that dining room set! For all of those pieces, $200.00 is a steal! Your space is going to be fabulous!
That table and chairs are fabulous!