Monday 27 November 2017

A tour of our dining space/eat in kitchen

Well hello! How was your holiday week? We were away in Disney and had an absolutely wonderful time. We have fallen hard for WDW over the past few years and it's always such a special trip for our family. 

I'm back today to share another room in our new house! I say this about all of them, I know, but this is one of my favorite spaces. You may remember that we did away with our dining room in our old house and turned it into a library instead. I never regretted that because we had an eat in kitchen that served our needs just fine. 

In this house, one of my favorite things was that there was no dedicated dining room. The kitchen is long and at one end there's what I consider an eat in area. I guess it could be called a dining room but it's so open to the rest of the great room I just consider it part of the kitchen.

The only real wall in the space (that's not windows or doors) is very long and at first I wasn't sure what I wanted to put there. Thankfully our long skinny table that used to sit in our family room fits perfectly:
Everett table world market
Someday I can see putting this one downstairs and getting something taller and more substantial for this wall, just because it can take it. But I do love this table in here! (I added the handles from Target but I can't find them there anymore.)

I mentioned before that I started to decorate things the exact same way I did in the old house and it hit me I could change things up -- it was allowed. 😂 So that's what I did. I've gone MUCH simpler with the decor in this house because I want to let the beauty of the home shine through. 

I knew from the start that I wanted this light fixture in the room. I had admired it for some time online and just knew it would look great:
long white table with wood chairs

upholstered chairs with rug at end of table
I'll link to all of the products in this post below, so be sure to check that out! We've had the table for years now and it's nice and long -- it took me forever to find an affordable long table. It came unfinished and I painted it white, but it needs another coat or two of paint now. 

We had the light moved over slightly in the space so I can eventually add a window seat under this row of windows: 
fiddle leaf plant

It will be awhile but I think it would look lovely! You knew I'd add one somewhere eventually. We've had this rug forever too, and it used to be in our library I believe. I think...I'm starting to forget where things were! ;) 

Our back door is on the other wall and the light comes shining into this space every day. We love it! (Yes those are Santa decals on the window.): 
upholstered chairs at end of table

I haven't had a rug (let alone such a light one!) under a table for some time, so we'll see how it works out. I have to say I love the look of it! We didn't have one underneath before because the table was so open to the family room and was right next to another rug. 

Because this one has it's own space it works beautifully:
Everett console table world market

I don't think we purchased anything new for this room! I went with my DIY art instead of the mirror I used to have above the console table. I just think it looks so pretty with the green lamps and adds some nice color to the space: 
wood chairs white table

I held off on the Christmas decor in here so I could share this room with you today -- but you can see a hint of our tree: 
bright and light dining area in great room

I've had SO much fun decorating this house for Christmas! I'll show you more soon. 

And you can see here a little how the room connects to the kitchen: 
long metal chandelier

There you go, another room tour in the house! You can see the powder room here, the foyer here and the mud room/laundry combo here if you missed any of those.

You can find the items in this post by clicking on the photos below or the links:


Affiliate links included for your convenience!
Wood tray on table: Target
Long chandelier: Houzz or on sale here for today!
Wood chairs (we love them still!) and wood console: World Market
Extendable long kitchen table: Wayfair
Lamps and rug: HomeGoods
DIY painted art
Wall color can be found here!

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from
http://www.thriftydecorchick.com/2017/11/a-tour-of-our-dining-spaceeat-in-kitchen.html

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