Room Posting 5: The Dining Room

This is probably our favorite room in the house.

The room: The dining room
The style: Eclectic vintage with a fondness for the 1930s
The colors: leaf green, red, soft oranges and multis


Furnishings: a sideboard and chairs from a gorgeous medieval-revival 1930s dining-room set, which M has had since her marriage. The round table in the middle is a mating of a round cherry top with ebony legs from a square table; we bought it at a tiny tumbledown antiques place up the road. To the right of the photo, a vintage piece which we believe to have been a music teacher's sheet-music hutch, and which we use for filing. We upholstered the chairs in a beautiful pale green and ivory rose tapestry fabric from our stash.

The artwork on the walls is a print of The Garden of Eden, surrounded by four prints of tea labels, both from our prior collection.

More after the jump as usual!




Our entryway, to the left of the previous photo:

The cabinet is a 1929 sewing machine with broken knobs replaced by porcelain ones from Hobby Lobby, the painting a very pretty four-seasons original by an Alphonse Mucha imitator, the books under the little lamp chosen to match both, plus a pencil sketch we picked up someplace and a coin bank in the shape of a London phone box.


A close-up of the antique music hutch which serves as our curio, containing three teapots, a New Orleans glass cup, and a plate of which I do not know the provenance.  The bird cage candle holder on top has tea lights that look like yuccas in it.  The rest is just ... stuff we've acquired, except for those green corkscrew willow branches, which we spent eight whole dollars on at Michael's (they were fifteen and we used a coupon, so we felt like we splurged on them).


The hallway leading to our bedroom, seen from the dining room.  You can see how many more books we've shelved ...


And another overall view, with a better look at our artwork but unfortunately showing some more unfinished bits .... To do: Finish upholstering chairs, sort out the top of our sideboard, find some shades for the chandelier.

We bought the branches, the placemats and the green knobs on the sewing machine, plus some staples.  Total expenditure thus far: about $25.