The Dining Room

I'll let the pictures do the talking...

Click here to see the before picture.

Furniture Arrives

Our dining room furniture was delivered on Saturday.  After a few months of waiting, it was exciting to finally have it arrive.  Here are some pictures of delivery day...

Half of our TEN dining chairs (which look great next to our wainscoting!):

The bottom half of our china cabinet:

And the whole cabinet assembled:

Here is the box our chandelier came in, which took up the entire front yard.  The delivery-men had to unpack it to fit it through the door:

 

And Josh installing the chandelier:

The Master Bedroom

Though the dining room took the most hours, our master bedroom had the most individual projects.  We tore out the carpet and had the hardwood refinished.  We tore out all the window trim.  We installed crown molding.  We then cut the window trim down 1" and reinstalled it.  We installed trim around the closets and new shoe molding on all the base boards.  We moved the door from the inside of the room to the outside.  Lastly, we painted the walls, ceiling, trim, and all the doors.  Basically, there isn't an inch of this room that we didn't work on.

For furniture, we are waiting for our bed arrive (king size!) and we are going to order plantation shutters for the windows.  We also plan to replace the ceiling fan sometime in the near future.  Here is the after picture:

And before:

Here are a few more pic's:

Our New, Old Cabinet

Here is the antique cabinet that Renee referenced in the last post.  She found it at a local antique shop.  It needed a little TLC, but definitely cleaned up nicely.

When we brought it home, two of the legs fell off:

A pane of glass was broken:

The top shelf was falling off, and the wood looked pretty rough:

So, we reattached the legs, glued the shelf back on, and I learned how to cut glass (it only took me 3 tries to get it to fit without breaking).  Then, Renee spent a few hours cleaning and polishing.  Here is the end product: