DIY Updates to our Living & Dining Rooms

This is the newest edition to our living room.  A DIY paper wreath.  I've seen them made out of pages from a book or music sheets.  I like those very much however I had the need to add some color.  I got a pad of scrapbook paper and made this one.

This is a grouping made from a tray found in the craft area of a dept. store, a single plate I had and an old picture frame that I painted.  I plan to tweak this project a little to make the colors stand out better from the pale walls.  

These are plates that I mounted to the wall using gorilla glue and hanging brackets.  The plates each came from old sets of dishes that have just the odds and ends remaining but I like too much to throw away or tag sale.

This is the beginning to our family photo wall.  I still have photo's to add or update and hang the right way.  I want all the photo's I hang in this group to be B&W or sepia tone. 

Thanks for staying along for the tour of updates.  A tutorial for the paper wreath will be coming soon.  Best wishes in the New Year!!

Dining Room Makeover

The husband and I have started to refinish all the wood work in our home.  As I've said before our home is over a century old  and the wood work is in desperate need of being fixed up.  We have started in the dining room and next we will be moving to the living room.  These are pictures of our work in progress.

These are the windows that face the driveway before any work was done.

This is the door way between the dining room and living room.  You can see the halfway point where the old varnish was taken off.

 This is the china cabinet and the doorway to the kitchen.  You can see that some work has been done to remove the old varnish. 

Here are the china cabinet doors.  The glass has been removed so that it will not get broken during the sanding process.  You can really see the difference in the color of the wood. Being an older home it is Maple rather than Pine.

xoxo