a little spring in the dining nook

This room is  so hard to take good pictures, because of the large window...

But I finally make a transition to spring.

Blue and white pillows (two made from dish towels) and some white tulips...

Blue and white dishes (not old or expensive ones, but fond memories attached - my husband had them in his university years and we used them the first years of our marriage)

Happy spring!

next step

Next step towards my farmhouse diningroom was to add open shelving.

This shelf cost me 10,90 NOK (less than 2$).

The staining technique is so simple and cheap...

I'll share more about it soon.

Next step is to exchange the lightning fixture... have allready another thifted one ;).

But allready now I enjoy having a cup of tea here!

Welcome!

(Never mind the floor is dry by now;)

Farmhouse style?

I'm dreaming of a simple farmhouse style dining room/breakfeast nook...

So when I came over these chairs at the lokal goodwill I thought I could make them work.

The problem is now they remind me of a german Sauerkraut and Bratwurst restaurant... 

they have this shiny golden brown finish:

If they looked more like that, I would be really happy with them:

frugal farmhouse

You know what I mean? Any idea what I can do to make them more look like that?

Anyway they are super sturdy, and that's what we need with four boy's in our family ;),

and I was more than ready to throw out the cheap IKEA chairs which started to get really beaten up.

Another option is to paint them gray and pair them with my scandinavian bench:

Visit my pinterest dining room inspiration to see in what direction I want my breakfeast nook to move...

fleeting beauty

Isn't a bunch of tulips a fleeting beauty?

They bent.

They die.

I still can't throw them out.

Because they still somehow are beautiful.

And today they remind me that imperfect still can be beautiful.

Just like my life.

Just like the door that does not shut properly.

Or the chairs that need a coat of paint.

And they tell me that in my strive for perfection I so quickly forget to enjoy the beauty God placed in my life.

So I thank God for my little man eating yoghurt with his hands (because mommy is busy taking pictures) and for a new friendship to the one who gave this lovly tulips to me...

another pair of "new" lamps and a plum cake

Found the two lamps in one thrift store and the two shades in another one...

The shades are IKEA and looked like this:

They had a bit wrong color sheme so I painted them with some watered down paint (hoping it would let the light still shining through - didn't work out too well!)

But I still think they look cute.

My mother in law has a plum tree in her garden (wich used to be our garden).

I craved german plum cake.

I liked the lamps on top of the piano too...

kitchen hutch

I have this little hutch in my dining room.

For several years I have decorated with white or cream dishes.

Today I craved some color.

I love how it changed the whole dining room.

And the best thing is that if I'm done with color, it'll be two minutes and the white dishes are back... ;)

ny benk

Min snille svigermor deler min interesse for gamle ting og landstil. Så henter det av og til at hun kjøper noge som hun ikkje har plass til... 

Og jeg takker ja!

Så fikk jeg meg slagbenk...