Dinning Room Plans

I haven't posted much about our new home…but it is sloooowly taking shape…possibly in the slowest way ever ;) Not too much has happened mainly because we've been busy with the wedding and we JUST rented out our Kingston house and are STILL trying to sell our condo :( We did list with a new agent though and lowered the price a wee bit - so we are continuing to be hopeful :)

Anyhoo, back to our house. A few months ago we ordered a new sofa…it is a pretty modern/contemporary design, and it will be upholstered in a soft, almost powder blue leather…it should arrive sometime in September - yay!

In the meantime we purchased a new dinning room set using some of the monies we received as wedding gifts. It came with a table made out of hardwood (it has walnut and zebra wood veneers) as well as 6 chairs (that I less than love - but are pretty comfie). We then purchased the matching hutch to store all of our lovely wedding china in - yay! All from our lovely neighbourhood Costco - I *heart Costco!

Because we've been needing to basically decorate the house from scratch…mainly because we didn't have enough furniture to fill it - I really wanted to have a plan of attack. I signed up for polyvore.com which is a fabulous way to save images you've found on the web…and then can make mood boards/inspiration boards out of. However, I haven't figured out if I'm able to upload pics…so I made a board out of the saved images using Microsoft Paint - yes, I am so high tech!

Here is a picture of the beginnings of our future dinning room :)



We're currently searching for prints to fill the frames we purchased on our last trip to IKEA…I've seen some lovely photographs that would work from our talented cousin Lindsay (the ones we're thinking of are of flowers or other botanicals) - however, we are so indecisive! I'm also thinking that our dining room could use a HUGE hit of colour…so should we ever get the funds, it would be my dream to invest in a beautiful piece of colourful art for the wall behind the table - such as the two below:





Anyone know where we could find an affordable piece like these…preferably on stretched canvas?

In the bottom right picture of our dinning room, you can see our current dinning room light fixture - I less than love it, but we were given no other options :( I'm dreaming of a large drum light…still have no idea where to find one…anyone know?

And once we work away at furnishing the other rooms in the house, it is my hope to add some fabric panels to our patio door…we think it will soften it up a bit. Same with the "dream dinning chairs" pictured above…I've already found them at Scan Design…but those will have to wait.

So, what do you think? Any suggestions? Any tips?

TIA!