Show Us Where You Live Friday

This week Kelly asked us to show off our Dining Room.

A little over a year ago a friend suggested that we move our dining room into the room we were using as our formal living room. Let me rephrase that...move our dining room into the room we never used because it was set up as a formal living room and there was no TV in that room. So with our friends help we did just that and I love it. The room is much bigger than our old dining room.

This is the view of the dining room once you walk in from the garage. In our condo Michael's office had a nautical theme to it, but at this house we decided to decorate the dining room with it instead. The ship wheel mirror and the dresser beneath it is part of a set I bought from a lady at my old job. It was an entire boys bedroom set that came with 2 dressers, a small desk, mirror and a twin headboard. I really just wanted it for the mirror though. The other pieces have definitely come in handy though. I put all of our Christmas picture cards around the mirror and keep them up all year.

This is the view of the dining room when you walk in from the entryway. The dining room is truly the heart of our home. We use it for all 3 meals and most the time Owen ends up sitting at the table drawing with crayons, markers or playing with Play-Doh. The sliding glass door goes out to our nice big deck that is partially covered.


These two pictures sets are on the walls that you can't see in the pictures above. The upper photos are professional pictures that we had taken when our oldest son Owen was 2 1/2 months old. The lower photos are photos we took of our youngest son Jack when he was 3 1/2 months old. I love these pictures!

And for fun here is a picture of what our dining room looked like before we moved it. This room is now used as our playroom as pictured in a previous edition of Show Us Where You Live Friday.