I want to start off this post with a disclaimer. I am in no way advising you to go out and buy new furniture that you cannot afford. This is not a sponsored post. We were in no way endorsed given or paid for any of the items in this room. That being said, we have been saving for years and years to get to this point in our lives. We finally purchased our dream fixer-upper and we've already put a ton of elbow grease and hard work into this property. One of the things we choose to do was make a few changes to the furniture in our new house. As you can imagine, things that once worked in our old house, just didn't fit the space in our new house. Luckily, I've gotten pretty proficient at posting items on the Facebook Marketplace, and have been able to sell nearly everything that didn't work in our new house. This gave me a good budget for the new home and the items we wanted to buy. Plus, we had saved up a little for a few special items as well. Today I'm talking about my dining room, the table and chairs we choose and how I went about creating the look for this space.
First, because the living room and dining room share the same chimney and are back to back, I decided to keep the white paint going, and paint out the brick on the dining side as well. I also had my painters continue painting the wood paneling and stain the beams the same color as the living room. I only had one wall that my china hutch, a gifted piece I painted years ago, would fit, so that decision was pretty easy to make. The window already had the plantation style shutters, and I opted not to do drapes in any of the main rooms in the house because I really wanted a bright and simple feel. I did not place a rug under the dining table, but I may decide to change my mind about that in the future. My thought was, little kids spill and drop stuff all the time, so it would be easier to clean up without it. Although, I did notice that Target had some great options for indoor/outdoor rugs that can be hosed right off and look like jute, which I find nearly impossible to clean.
The table I had was only a five foot long table. It fit perfect in our old house, because I had it built for that room. In our new house, we had so much more space, and I plan do do more entertaining, so I really wanted to be able to seat more people. The table I ended up buying was from Pier One, abd was a bit costly. But, our local store is closing, so they had a major sale. I still waited (and called almost every day to see if it had been marked down more) for a few weeks and finally got lucky last weekend with and additional 25% off the already reduced price. It was still expensive though, and my husband and I talked about it first before making the purchase. I was hopeful that I would be able to sell our other table for almost as much as I was paying for the new one. I ended up getting the matching chairs and bench as well, although only one chair and the bench were in stock and on the super sale. I did list the other table set, and yesterday it sold for $600, which ended up making our new dining set a great deal and very affordable for us!
For now, I styled the table with my faux winter arrangement, some books, candles and some lemons from our tree out back. There's a trade off here, friends. Buying all new linens to go on my pretty new table would have been fun, but using things I already had around the house saved me money, and for a gal who likes a bargain, that's a win-win in my book.
