Dining Room Mix Up

Wait... May 1st...

How did this happen?

We have been so busy around here, I feel like

we are spinning around in circles.

School is winding down for Austin

and he is ready to be out for the summer.

I think he only has 16 days of school left...

where did this year go??

Well, while I have been trying to keep him on track until

the last day of school we have been busy around the house,

inside and out.

The spring weather always makes

for a laundry list of projects for Scott on the outside

of the house and I always have a laundry list of things to

do inside... as well as the laundry!

One of the projects we have been working on inside is

my Dining Room.  

While Mom was here, I got the bright idea to move the furniture around.

Mother and I unloaded the china cabinet and proceeded with 

the old switch-a-roo

I was so excited to get to moving that I forgot to take a photo

of the furniture the way it was...

I dug around through some of my old photos to see if I could find one,

but these were the best I could come up with.

the buffet sat in an inset in the wall.  This was where I had the movers put it

the day we moved in and that was where it stayed.

As you can see in the photo above, the couch was creating a 

"wall" on one side of the dining room and the table was running

parallel to the couch...

Mom and I unloaded things and got to moving...

And this is what we ended up with...

We moved the china cabinet to the little nook where the buffet originally sat,

moved the buffet over in front of the window, brought in the server

that matches my dining room set that we had no room for 

with the other arrangement.

And finally we turned the table perpendicular to the 

way it originally sat.

The room looks so much bigger!

I am really liking the new furniture arrangement.

Now, I am just going to have to figure out what to put on the walls.

The large mirror that was above the buffet is too big

to hang over the server, but the wall looks very bare

with it's high ceiling and little piece of furniture.

I would love to have a plate display on the wall.

 I have been looking around on Pinterest for some ideas...

I really liked this idea of mixing blue and white

together...

source

It's still a work in progress, but I am liking what

we have done so far.

I would also like to paint and have Scott add some wainscoting.

I need to find a new rug...once I turned the table,

the rug that was in there was too big.  We moved it into the

living room and it now covers the ugly carpet that is needing to be replaced.

Scott has been busy outside working on a project or two

as well...

Jackson's swing set and play house were in need a little face lift...

This set was a hand me down when Austin was little.

Our good friends, the Pender's had bought this for their

daughter Kerri when she was little...

she will turn 22 this month and be getting married

at the end of the year.

The roof that had been on it, became worn and torn with the weather,

so we had taken it off long ago.  We had stained it several years ago,

and it was showing a lot of wear, so Scott got straight to work.

We cleaned it with a mixture of Tide and Bleach

and then went to town with the pressure washer!!

Bye-Bye ugly stain....

Scott also built a new roof for the little fort...

My little handy man...

He can fix just about anything.

Hard at work adding the last few nails to hold the top on...

And this is where we are today...

New roof and all ready for some new stain.

Which is on the list of things to do when Scott is 

able to stay in town for more than three days at a time...

Some times we take baby steps around here...

I guess that is better than no steps at all!

So that is just a little peek into what we've been up too.

Now, just to make it through Homespun at school this weekend,

along with the Graduation party for the kids at church,

end of school and the summer fun can begin!