The bad thing about remodeling is sometimes your old furniture looks ridiculous when you put it back into the room!  This was most certainly the case in our dining room.  I was trying to be a good sport and live with it, but it just got way too hard.  I saw this black and white striped rug in a catalog and immediately I was on a quest to get it.From there, I combed the city looking for a buffet cabinet, tables, and chairs.  All of it came from a variety of different places and my mom graciously dropped everything to help me make decisions.  She’s awesome like that, and she’s retired, so she can!

I scoured through all of my kids artwork and picked my favorites for a gallery wall and it makes all of us so happy looking at it.  The lady at the store where I purchased all of my frames thought I was completely insane wanting to hang all of that amateur art, but what does she know anyway!?  Just in time to serve good Friday dinner to Brian’s family, the room was done!  Whew!I sold my old dining room furniture for next to nothing because there isn’t a strong market for formal dining anymore.  Morgan and I (along with two ladies who spoke fluent Spanish) carried all of that furniture out the front door and loaded it into a truck.  It was a sight for sure!!  We  had a great run with that dining room set – many parties occurred in there – I stood on top of that table many times hanging birthday party decorations and poking thumbtacks and staples into the top of that china cabinet!!  Change is good and we are going to have many more fun celebrations in here!