Dining Room Extras

Happy New Year!  

We're looking forward to getting the rest of the kitchen renovation wrapped up in the beginning of 2016.  Who knows what other projects we'll start on later in the year... we're tossing around ideas for the well house, and the backyard will need quite a bit of work in the spring/summer. I'm sure there will also be some unexpected projects- there always are with an old house!

Below are two Dining Room pics that I forgot to include yesterday.  After I posted, it was pointed out that I wasn't as thorough as usual- haha!


First is the liquor cabinet which we bought last year with plans to use it in the new dining room when finished.  I love how it looks with the brown paint and white board & batten!

Here it is closed up- taken from the doorway that goes into the kitchen/butler's pantry

Here it is looking festive, all opened up...

It fits perfectly on that wall when it is opened!  It took quite a bit of fussing to get it level, since this is the old portion of the house and the floors are so uneven.  Luckily it had those little spinner feet on it that I could adjust while Mike lifted (and even then we had to add some furniture pads underneath one side!)


We put the China Cabinet on the other side of the room, on the wall diagonal from the liquor cabinet...

Taken from the doorway of the parlor
(located to the left of the liquor cabinet in 1st photo above)

Here's a closeup of the inside...

For the holidays, I decorated it by adding some crown ruby that my parents had given us, plus some Lenox Christmas platters.

The layout of the room makes it hard to get a photo that includes all of the furniture.  I took the one below, but it doesn't get the china cabinet in, which is to the right of me.

We plan to buy an area rug for in here, but haven't found the right one yet... so for the time being, we're just enjoying the newly refinished floors!