Dining Room

Our dining room seems to be ever changing.  One thing that will stay the same (for a while anyway) is the paint.  It took forever to agree on a color and we used it throughout A LOT of the house.  I have to admit, it's not my favorite (it looks GREEN in some places!), but we have more rooms to paint.  I'm not about to stop and repaint the dining room!  Here's how she looked before...

{Before furniture - WITH wallpaper}

{Wallpaper coming down}

{Wallpaper removed - still waiting for furniture}

Here she's mostly finished.  Now I'm working on the walls.

{I moved all the travel photos to the right corner and added a curtain}

{On the left I've started a travel gallery wall.  Since I hope we continue traveling, it's a work in progress.  That, and I'm still looking for old pictures and postcards to frame and hang.  I bought the huge frame at a garage sale and it sat empty till last week.  It still needs a little tweaking, but it lists all the places we've lived, our wedding date and the dates the kids were born.  It took forever and when I was done I wished I'd used the same font throughout.  Oh well!}

{There is a plate from Oregon that I got from a British woman when we lived in England.  A tile from one of our houses in Italy.  Our wedding invitation.  Postcards and pictures from places we've been.  A key from a house in Italy.  A small plate from Okinawa waiting for a plate hanger.  I've carried around a poster from London for years and years and if I can find it, it will go in the large space on the top left.  I'm excited to add more to it these walls.}

 {We eat most dinners together at the dining room table, but it's also a place to work on puzzles!  This is a fun one full of US license plates.  We've had quite a few of these on our cars!}

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