functionality meets modern elegance dining room

ok so everyone knows that a great dining room starts with a great table...and for tiff and donnie, this table designed by Ana White is PERFECT! She blogged the how-to HERE yeah...a lil elbow grease..but SO worth it!!

we're gonna put six of these BEAUTIFUL white chairs around the table...

LOVE IT! : ) now...we're gonna need some nice pop of color to really make all this black and white shine...so i'm thinking a nice aqua blue like Sherwin William's Holiday Turquoise

and continue the trim color from the living room into the dining room on the crown, baseboard, and chair rail since they open into each other...(in case you forgot its Sherwin William's Black Magic)

let's hang something like this awesome original by Susanna S.

set the table with some nice white china...fiestaware is my FAVORITE!!!

and lets put a red accent plate with those clean white plates! :)

and you guys know i can't let them eat on a hard floor!!! gotta have this bold striped RUG to give donnie that modern touch he likes :)

love it...hate it...tell me what you think!!! :) hope you like tiff and donnie!!!

Jade's retro cool kitchen and dining room

 ok...so here we go again...here is the inspiration that jade gave me for her retro - funky - cool kitchen LOVE this cute lil rug!!!

i LOVE the color combo in the inspiration...and she already has multicolored Fiestaware dishes in her kitchen...like these

i really like the brown tones in the rug...so i was thinking a nice oatmeal colored cabinet with an espresso glaze to tie them in and go with the "retro" kinda feel...like the finish on these...if you are a beginner, ana white does a great tutorial on glazing the CHEAP way HERE

but i'm thinkin' a more modern hardware like this...from LOWES.com

 

what about a chalkboard backsplash??? like this one??? i'm loving the look...and you could just write your shopping list...recipe...WHATEVER on there!!! cheap AND easy!!! AND...you can make it whatever color you want by using THIS cool tutorial...i'm thinking...chocolate BROWN...or...LIME green???

 ok so the kitchen that we are redecorating was built about 75 years ago...its a little...vintage ;) some of the cabinet doors are just really plain...and some of them look a little newer and more detailed...SOOOO....i decided that we should just take of the...umm...challenged doors and replace them with inexpensive burlap curtains...what do you think?

something that looks kinda like this...(tutorial HERE)

ok i know we talked about navy chairs jade...but i LOVED the look of these turquoise ones!!! (loving the "chandelier" in this pic too!!) you could hang glass baby food jars, with tea lights in them, for a less seasonal look... :)

i think a great rug like THIS brown zebra print would add a contemporary flair to this country chic dining area

 

sooo....whadda ya think????? :)