Dining Room: Check!

On my To Do list for months has been the item: "Order dining room chairs". We have the bench that we made, the chairs that I bought on Craigslist and on the otherside of the table...nothing.

I searched for a long time on Craigslist, but couldn't find what I wanted. It didn't help that I kept changing my mind as well.

My first idea was a Bertoia Style chair, but then I decided I wanted something a little weightier. Plus, the only reasonably priced chairs were on Amazon and I couldn't tell by any of the review if they were quality chairs or not.

Next, I moved along to another industrial style chair and found this one from Crate and Barrell. Loved it, just not the $200 price tag.

Then I found this blog post with a few other more affordable options. She ordered a few of the ____ chair. I had three of them in my online shopping cart until I saw the $104 shipping price. Wah wah. I'm just too cheap to pay for that (which is why my initial search was on Overstock.com). Then, I was searching on Pinterest and saw this picture:

And unbeknownst to me, there is a World Market in Newport News! I kindly asked Glenn in his post-drinking haze to drive with me the 21 miles to NN. Now we are the proud owners of 3 Jackson Tub chairs. Sans shipping cost. No more moving chairs around when people come for dinner.

I did have a hard time deciding which side of the table they should go on though. I decided this side, to balance the bar, but Glenn thinks the other side. What do you think?

The dining room is all finished now. Except for paint, but that might be awhile...

"New" Chandelier

When we decided the put a ceiling fan in the bedroom, we knew it made sense to remove one from the dining room and replace it with a pretty chandy.

I looked for awhile but couldn't find one that was big enough for the space AND we could afford. Enter my brother buying a new house and a big chandelier too big for their dining room. Not to mention brass and ugly.

They shipped it to me last week, all 27 lbs of it, and now I've got a ugly brass chandelier. Just kidding of course. That's not my style.

Enter 3 cans of spray paint, a little poly spray and 12 shades ($3 each at Garden Ridge!) So for about $50 plus a new dimmer switch and plate, so really about $85, a new chandelier!

My hubby got his electrician booty on and wired it up. Not quite as smoothly as the fan, but we're learning. Let's just say I sat in the basement to reset the breaker each time it popped. In which time I cleaned up the basement. It was a lot.

Now for the pics!

Before:

A little primer:

First coat:

And finished!

With the lights on. Glad we went with the dimmer. 12 60 watt bulbs is a lot.

Thanks for sending it mom & dad!