Favorite Places:: Dining Room

So I've decided to show you a few of my favorite places right here in our own home. We built our house and moved in sixteen month ago. It was a lot of fun to build. We liked picking out the flooring, the countertops, etc. Before we moved into our new home, we lived in a little house built in 1952.  It had the original stove/oven, huge oak trees in the front and back yard, and beautiful hardwood floors. I loved that old house for all its charm and because we have so many good memories there. It was the first house we purchased together, the house we entertained family and friends in, and the house we brought our sweet newborn twins home to.  But we outgrew the space, and we had to move.  I sometimes find myself caught between loving the quirkiness of the old place and the newness of our current home.  I had so many favorite spots in our old house!  But over time, I'm finding new places in our current home to fall in love with.  

One of those favorite places is our dining room.

Our first furniture purchase when we started building our house was this table.  We found it at an antique store in Bethany.  The store owner said it came from a farm and is called a harvest table.  The table didn't come with any chairs, so we thought pairing some more modern burnt orange chairs would be cool.  And when we saw the table in the store we could instantly imagine many family dinners and holiday meals happening around it.

The old blue scale in the back corner has a little history too.  Mike's parents bought it at an antique store back in the early 1970s.  It sat in their house for years, then was passed on to Mike's aunt, and then passed on to us. We thought it was a fun conversation piece.  In its day, you could drop a penny into a slot, see how much you weighed, and receive a small printed card with a picture of a movie star and your fortune printed on the back. How cool is that?

And finally we added to the wall a collage of family pics-- both new and old.  I love having those up, but Mike instantly said it looked like the wall at Applebee's, so he's working on a big painting to replace the collage.  I think we might scale it down and move the collage to the entryway.  Just a thought.  And I'll be sure to post a pic of the new painting whenever it's done.   I'm sure it will be great!