Show us where you live Friday - Dining Rooms

This is our dining room as a 'pre-before'. We haven't even begun to overhaul our dining room yet. I am imagining in the future possibly a bay window in place of the two windows, or perhaps even french doors out to a flagstone patio. I can also visualize some built in shelves to show off my collection of white serving pieces.

Here is the dining room still as a "current before" (i.e. We've spruced it up a little bit to make me happy, but it obviously doesn't even hold a candle to what I want it to look like as an end result.) I loved the colorful chairs that I had in there, but since re-doing my living room which opens up to the dining room, I had to put them in my new kitchen. They majorly clashed with the fabrics and colors in there and they look like they belong in their new home around the kitchen table.

This photo was taken during our Christmas Party.

Here are a couple photos from the Thanksgiving last year

And also for my husbands Birthday Brunch last year:





The little sideboard comes in handy, but I can't wait to really have built ins that will hold all my serving pieces.

Here is the dining room dressed in its Spanish best for Mexican Mastalski Night ~ October 2008

Well hopefully within the next year or so I can update with some fabulous new "After" shots. But for now, hope you enjoyed the tour!

Show us where you live Friday - Living Room

Kelly over at http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/ is doing it again ths week with show us where you live Friday. So here is my living room in my new home.

View from the Front Doorway:

View from the Dining Room:

New sideboard from Home Goods. Pretty much everything I own comes from that store!




With all this dreary weather we have been having (Day 9 of rain!) I had to put some summertime touches out.


Here is a "before" photo:

And now onto the Family Room:

Ever since we went to Arizona, I had to do a little Cowboy theme in that room! The red walls are Benjamin Moore "Confederate Red" it is the BEST red that I have ever had!

Christmas time in the Family Room

My prized posessions, LOL.... autographed pictures from the actors of "A Christmas Story". We went to Cleveland over Thanksgiving and went to the real house and met them! SO FUN!

Thanks for taking a peek at my home!

Kitchen Shots....

Kelly over at http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/ is doing a fun thing today where everyone is sharing shots of their kitchens. I am usually a lurker over there, but have come to look forward to seeing Kelly's new posts with her adorable daughter Harper everyday. I thought I would join in on the fun! Here are some recent photos of my new kitchen:

And for good measure....here is the "Before" shot :

Thanks for taking a peek!