Before and After Day 5: What to do to Dine Today?

Big Bird Yellow.  That's where our dining room started.  We don't have any REALLY early before pictures of this room.  There was a table, a china cabinet, and a whole lot of knick knacks.  All that remains here is a bar stool (which we're keeping and refinishing) and a portable dishwasher which we graciously said we didn't want.  Outside, you'll notice the dilapidated sun room.  In it's day, that's where my cousin, Ronnie, would sit and watch hummingbirds outside for hours. However, since he passed away, this room was neglected.  It was windows from floor to ceiling and most of them lost the "double" in double paned and leaked.  So - there was lots of mold, moisture, and general ICK!  We got permission and got rid of the whole thing.

Looking in the opposite direction from the above picture.  Again - the walls - what can I say?!  And there's my lil pink, trusty radio on what became my night stand!  Oh - you can't see it in this picture, but there was a FAN above the dining room table!  A fan! I guess they wanted to keep their food cool?  It was actually in really nice condition and it was a cherry wood sort of color, so we relocated it to our bedroom.  The one in there was relocated to the office.

One more picture - clean swept and ready to make a change!

AND HERE IT IS - THE AFTER!

And here we are now!  Those baskets will go eventually.  They're leftovers from the wedding and the stuff IN the china cabinet isn't staying either.  Notice the new chandelier!  The table, chairs, and china cabinet came from my great-aunt, Nellene.  She gave me the big bread bowl on the table, too.  I LOVE it!  This is the same Cranberry Zing that's on our accent wall in the living room.  That stuff took coat after coat of paint, but it was worth it.  You can barely see the newly laid laminate floor on the bottom left corner of the picture.  Also, notice the pictures to the left of the china cabinet; there's an identical pair on the other side.  The frames were the 2nd thing I picked out when we were registering - they are antique black, but you can see bits of red peaking through.  

This is the left side - two of our fave engagement pics.

And this is the right side - two more pics!

This is what the back door now looks like.  I couldn't get a pic because of the sun, but TRUST ME - the sun room is now long gone! Outside this window is a concrete patio with a growing muscadine vine and BIG tree - Andy's just waiting to hang up a hammock out there next spring :-)

This is a close-up of the curtain my wonderful mother-in-law, Toni, made just for me.  This was an after thought to the curtain she made for the kitchen (which you'll see tomorrow).  I loved the flags/buttons at the top and you can't really see them on the kitchen ones, so she dressed up our glass doors a bit. 

This is our cool clock that Kira Armstrong gave me for my birthday this year...the catch?  The clock doesn't actually work! We're hoping to find a new "middle" for the wall-cling clock because it just looks so cool where it is - slightly to the right of the glass doors.


Well - That's it for today!  Please leave a comment to let us know you stopped by!  It looks like there're about two more days of this little before and after.  Hopefully, I'll successfully continue to blog after the fact as we continue our lives together and continue to improve our home.  We planted grass seed yesterday, so (HOPEFULLY) there will be pictures of green grass to post before it turns off cold.

In store for tonight - auditions for A Seussified Christmas Carol with Fifth Row Center!
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~Melissa