will and i have had plans for our dining room for some time. they were recently realized. its now our "nice" room. it looks just like we want it to, nicely furnished, new windows, not cluttered and with an awesome paint job in a color we like. (not to worry, it still converts to a guest room for our friends who want to come visit)
in my lifetime the furniture i have acquired was basically take it as is, either free or there are no choices you have to take it in this color if you want it. for this chair, will and i chose the color and the style and we are so happy! since its a glider type chair it lives in the little room, until such time that we can bring into the living room and enjoy it all the time. also extra style points come from jesse who gifted us the beautiful throw from mexico you see artfully draped along the back of the chair . (the artful draping is mine but i couldn't have done it with any other throw so easily.)
tomorrow eli is going to start painting the dining room. so tonight we emptied it and stacked the big furniture in the middle, jackson was excited because the tarps we used smell like camping and he hearts camping. goodbye semi-gloss blue paint!
today eli finished painting the little room. i love how it turned out and i also love that our house didn't smell because we used no-VOC paint, Freshaire Choice Paint available at home depot. we used summer dragonfly (turquoise) and distant star (white) for the colors. thanks eli it looks great!
we are in the midst of reorganizing our house to make room for the kidlet. this is a complicated process, when will and i moved in together we got rid of ton of crap, when we moved we got rid of a ton of crap, when i started this blog (and we had the street sale) we got rid of a ton of crap. yet somehow we still have crap. we have given away furniture and we are still getting rid of crap. how are we solving the problem? we are getting a new piece of furniture to store the crap that we aren't getting rid of. so i was in the store today with the new piece trying to figure out what baskets would go in the bottom to store the linens that we want to keep there. there are two choices. the dark one or the light one. i know its a long post to basically ask one question. the room walls are tan, the floors are roughly the same color as in the picture and the piece will be in a well lit room but not super bright. (also keep in mind that you are only seeing the bottom part, there are three more shelves above that won't have baskets.)
we moved into our house a little over a year ago, when we moved in we did what we had to do in order to live here. we knew that we would have to replace the windows. today we got three replaced. small wins, small wins.
today he crossed off "white cabinet" so much joy from crossing things off this list.
this is our house to do list and when i say "our" i really mean will's. but he just loves crossing things off this list, so why would i deprive him of that.
so today will put together and placed our brand new composter and my intention was to take a picture of it to share, however. . . i forgot so instead i messed with the lighting and my macbook's isight to get a fun back lit picture. you can't tell but i am sticking my tongue out.
