Dining Room

When we were looking for a house, one of the things on my checklist was a formal dining room. I really wanted a separate room off the kitchen where I could put this beautiful table I'v had my eye on for years from West Elm. I wanted enough space to have dinner parties and family dinners no problem. When we bought this house it had a super small dining room with a half wall separating the dining room from the front living room. I knew my table wouldn't come close to fitting in there so my step-dad said taking down the wall would be easy.

Before

As you can also see the entire inside of the house was painted a pale yellow...which also needed to go. 

Michael and Jim took down the wall and me and my mom got to painting. I knew I wanted grey paint and fell in love with this Bher color. 

^Bye-bye wall!

The end results are better then I could have ever imagined. I'm completely in love with my dining room and how everything came together. I got almost everything on sale which is a total plus in my book!

String State

About two years ago I kept seeing the new rage all over Pinterest...String States. I loved them, and wanted one, but of course couldn't just get on Etsy and buy one for myself. I obviously had to make it. It honestly probably took a year to complete. Bought all the supplies from Home Depot, and then they sat in my garage for a few months....then I stained the piece of wood I was going to use..

Then  a few months later I got around to tracing WA State and put the nails in. 

Michael ended up doing the string and hung it up in our Dining Room. I seriously love it so much and we get a lot of compliments. Its even better because we made it together!