Dining Room Dreams !

Our last home was only a 2 bedroom flat with small rooms - but the way it was laid out lent itself to entertaining perfectly -

There was a large entrance way which was open to the living room which then opened to the dining room

Allowing people to be in both rooms and still be together

So the 16 or so at Christmas fit in the space perfectly.

With space to even add another table when we had to.

We knocked out a wall in the house before that one, to turn a bedroom into a dining room with French doors that led to the living room - again allowing people to be in both rooms.

This current house, however, isn't laid out in a way that I can achieve that.
The dining room is off the kitchen - which is at the back of the house - I worry that it'll be too small.

I've thought of opening up the kitchen entirely to create a kitchen / dining room space because I know families today prefer open spaces...............( resell - everything I do is always about resell ).but it's a tiny old cottage and I kind of feel it would lose some charm by doing that, which is why the plan has always been to have French doors installed ( which would lead to the garden ) because I think a small dining room would feel so much larger with the view that the doors would provide.  ( I may have an ocean put in the backyard as well )
It would bring much needed light into a very dark dining room.

PINTEREST

BUT the idea hit me this weekend that I may have 2 sets of French doors installed.

Sorry for showing this horrid room twice in 2 days - but I'm itching to get started in there ( April - I'm praying by April I can at least start ! )
Again I'm showing the seller's photo

What do you think?
Is it ridiculous?
Or charming ?

If the entire room is white with black French doors ( black and white would tie in with the kitchen )

The wall where the single window is leads to the garden

The wall with the double windows leads to the side of the house - which is fenced in and filled with trees making a perfect spot for a little " secret garden " area.

Help!

John says - 2 sets of French doors in one small room?  Ridiculous !!!
Suzan says - I think it's brilliant !
John says - YOU my dear, think everything you do is brilliant - and sometimes it's not

But if this beautiful space can have 4 sets

source

Surely we can have 2 ?

And I thought the kitchen was a huge transformation

The dining room may be an even bigger one !

Can you help me convince John or are you on his side with this one?

Have a great day everyone !
Me
( dreamer of double sets of French doors )



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Well excuse me........................

But I think you've painted my chair .........................

I wanted something Spring/Summer like - because I've definitely got a bad case of winter doldrums
And so I went with this fabric which I ordered on line.

Most of you liked it - some of you didn't -  John HATED it - while I secretly fretted over it not being what I imagined - it's hard to order things on line and get an accurate perspective of what it'll look like in person.

I told myself that if it didn't look good on the chairs I'd use it somehow in the blue guest room - but I really had a vision in my head

I saw a white French Provincial Dining Set in a Paris Apartment once - with bright colorful chairs - and it got filed away in my brain for  " some day "

It took it's time getting here but " some day " finally arrived !

Ooops - sorry - the fabric isn't stapled in the above photo !

I distressed the edges a little - so that it didn't look quite so pristine

Another thing I worried about was that I just eyeballed the measurements - ( who does that ?  really, there's something wrong with me I know )
But luckily I have just enough for 6 chairs - and I do mean JUST enough !

Here it is all stapled - nice and neat

Most of you that follow know by now that I'm a black and white and grey kind of person - I love color in other's homes - but have never been one to apply it in my own - so I don't quite understand why I'm almost giddy over these - but I am !
Doesn't it look like the happiest dining room chair?

They even make John happy !
Well he's not dancing around with glee or anything - but he actually said last night that he really liked them - and that's GOLD coming from him.

Suzan says - We'll paint the dining room completely white - and these will be the feature !
John says - I'm not sure about that
Suzan says - You're never sure about anything until you see it - you hated this fabric until it was on the chairs.
John says - I haven't made my mind up about keeping this set...............

Ok - we'll let him think I'm selling it -
But I'm not.
I can't.
I'm too in love.

I finished one of the arm chairs as well

I primed them first ( because of fear of tannin coming through AND to save money on paint )
By doing that, it only took 2 coats of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Pure White

The dining room ( or the office for that matter ) have not been touched yet - it's sealed off so that I don't have to look at it - but here's the seller's photo

Dear God ..............really, just Dear God

I don't even know where to begin - there's panelling and wall paper to come off ( including on the ceiling ) and those horrible heater covers and the color of the floor and and and ............
I'm sure it was lovely in it's hey day - but hey - that day has long since sailed.
We need to change the windows - and put in French doors to the garden - maybe add a window seat - this is going to be a lot of work.
But I know what's going in there when it's finished !

Ok there's only so much I can say about a chair LOL !!!

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone
I'll be painting a few more of them today -
And then a table
And then a buffet/hutch
And maybe, just maybe, a chandelier !

I've got sunshine ( on a cloudy day )
When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May......................

This is a 2 song post

Hugs,

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