JUNK RUNTAH

ArcMap to Google Map Polygons

ArcMap to Google Map Polygons

Hello friends! I hope youre having great weeks so far. Work has been keeping me quite busy lately and Im ready for things to slow down a little bit! Im popping in today to share a little update on our dining room. Though its far from what Id call "done," Im ok with that and I figured yall would like to see some of the progress and hear about the process. After all, real life makeovers dont happen overnight!

The last time you saw a full shot of our dining room, it looked like this:



Our petite, but lovely farm table (a family piece) lived here, and we were using a secretary for storage. We knew we wanted a larger dining table to host folks for the elaborate dinner parties were planning - I kid, but seriously, we wanted to be able to have more than two people over at a time - and better storage for serving pieces, barware and china.

I hit the jackpot with a thrifted china hutch I found at my favorite local Philly spot, Uhuru, back in January, and that piece has become a workhorse. I wrote about it in this post if you want more details about it and the little DIY magic I worked on it. Youll see it a little later in this post.

Then, after months of hunting Craigslist for the perfect dining room table that my husband and I could both agree on, the Dylan table from CB2 popped up for nearly half off the retail price. It was the perfect mix between traditional farm table, mid-century modern and industrial, and we love it. Enough chit chat though, lets get to to the photos!


Can I just tell you how pretty this table is? It has a thick, solid wood top and iron hairpin-like legs. And yes, it does weigh approximately a thousand pounds (Im exaggerating, but not by much). Like true city-dwellers who dont have a large car to pick up giant Craigslist finds, we called an UberXL to pick it up and bring it home. The driver was so awesome - he even helped us carry it into the house. It was quite a hilarious scene.


It fits six to eight people, and clearly we are in need of more seating! Were contemplating doing four chairs and a bench - do yall have thoughts on a bench? I think it would look less crowded visually than having six chairs since our space isnt huge, but I worry a little bit about comfort for the folks sitting at a bench for long periods of time.


I cant get over how thick and beautiful the table top is.



If youre paying very close attention, you might notice that the china hutch swapped walls and I added some large-scale art to the wall where that piece used to be.


Ill share a little more about that art in another post, but I will let you in on a little secret: it was a DIY I put together with some acrylic craft paint and some Modern Masters Pale Gold from the Metallic Paint Collection. Theyre super simple and add a nice graphic focal point to the room.


Id say the dining room is coming right along!

Whats left to do in here? A few things:

• Change out that unfortunate shiny brass chandelier for something awesome. Jurys out on what that will be, but I talked about some recent favorites last week in this post.
• Figure out the seating. Id like to get four of these white Eiffel style dining chairs (*affiliate link) and a bench. My husband isnt sold on those chairs though.
• Paint the radiator white.
• Maybe add a rug? 

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