Design on a Dime

Mom has been here for the week, which means something in my condo needs to be decorated. Slowly we have made this place feel like home. The last room to be done was the dining room. We attacked it this trip. And after many trips to JoAnne's fabric store and Home-depot and finally Marshall's it is done!

Before picture (a little messy):


The wall is just screaming to have something to wear. And the chairs are begging for more chic coverings, tired of the ol' country yellow plaid look. Something modern & updated.

JoAnne's fabric store was having a sale: Extremely large frame - buy one get one free! So....we ended up with 2 frames. I'll show you later what we did with the other frame.



Bought 2 types of fabric. One blue flowery fabric that we would frame & hang on the wall in the dining room. The other a cappuccino color cover the chair seat cushions.



We ended up painting the frames to better match the fabric. And we found a cheap frame at a thrift store which was perfect to hang over my bar.



Oh and you can't forget the table. The table can't be left naked! So we dressed it with a beautiful table runner. Sadly, I cannot claim to have made this table runner, but we did buy it in Amish country along with some fabric that will make up my next quilt. (pictures of that fabric to follow).




We were almost done, but looked up only to see a bare corner, just begging to have something there to make the room complete. We headed out to find a cheap vase with some wispys and things to stick out of it to give it some height. We ended up with a maroon color to bring in maroon from my living room.



The final product. Ta-Da!