Dining Room Set Re-do Part 2

In Dining Room Set Re-do Part One I showed you the beautiful dining room that I had found on Craigslist and has been in our dining room for a little over a year, functional but really needed redone.

I got the kick in the butt motivation I needed when I learned that my husbands sister and brother in law were coming to visit for a week from England. Even though we didn't sit down to eat at it (they don't have a Cheesecake Factory over there) I'm feeling pretty good about finally getting it finished. :)

The chairs had already been previously sanded down (yay!) 
So after wiping them down I was able to start staining them.

I was unsure of what type of wood/color would work best so I choose the Red Oak and it seemed to match the table quite well.

Luckily it was one of the few nice days we had in April and I was able to stain them in the driveway.

   

 This is probably the biggest stain job I have ever taken on, I use a foam craft paintbrush that would extremely well, it really held a lot of stain and spread it very well. The one suggestion I have is to make sure that after it dries that you wipe it down really well, a couple of days after I was still finding sticky spots.

Two of the chair cushions looked like this^ 

I took the first piece off to use a template and this was underneath, with these two I just covered right over them, figured there was no need to change the padding and it was a lot cheaper.

 I laid out the first piece of fabric and cut around it, just a rough estimate, I don't like to measure anything if I don't have too :)

The second two chairs had these cushions on them, I was tempted to leave them unattached and just cover them, but I want the table to look somewhat uniform. When I took this covers off, underneath was two feather cushions, I ended up covering over them.

The feathers made quite a mess!

Rin-tin stopped in to rest his head and share his two cents!

Final result of the cushions, the two in the back are the ones that were unattached, they look a little bumpy and not as firm. 

Final Result!!

Before and Afters :)

DIY Shadow Box

I found this beautiful thing not too long ago at a yard sale!

Isn't it sweeeet?

I have no idea what it is but i thought that it would make the cutest shadow box ever :)

I had seen this cool art piece on Two Girls Being Crafty and decided to incorporate that into my shadow box, however the word 'family' wouldn't wasn't big enough for all our names, and yes i included the dogs :) how could i not?

I had bought two old scrabble games, one at a yard sale and one at the thrift store, i needed two cause i added alot more letters :)

Before

Lined with scrapbooking paper :)

Getting everything ready

Laying everything out

Ta-Da!!

 

Isn't it cute? So excited to hang it up today!

Decorating

So I have been bothered by this blank wall in our bedroom for some time now. I don't like blank walls, I think walls should be filled. Maybe a little toooo filled, but whatever. A couple of weeks ago I spotted this frame out for the trash, i drove past it a couple times and decided to pull over and pick it up.

Isn't it pretty? If you could see it for real you would see that it is hanging by a few last nails. But I love it! So it hung on the wall for a little with nothing in it but I had an idea what to do with it.

Enter these wall decals I found at Michaels awhile ago:

 Aren't they soooo cute?

I wanted to use them more then once though so I taped the picture to the bank of the frame and then sticky tacted the frame to the wall.

I had to move them around quite a few times to get them just right, also ignore the some of them aren't smooth (welcome to a renters life ;)

Whadda ya think?

I'm loving it.

For right now anyways.