You know all about our Living Room now, so let’s move on to the adjacent Dining Room!

 


The table on the left was the first project Kyle and I did together. His sister, Erin, gave us a wine box, and we decided it could be transformed into a little side table. So, we stained the box a cherry wood color, and the legs and wooden top we added were stained black. It always reminds me of the first months we were together. Almost two and a half years later, it still makes me smile.

The cameras on top are three of my favorites in my collection. My 1970s Nikon is Numero Uno in my life; it’s what I shot most of my photos with throughout high school and college. I found the 1940s polaroid in a local antiques store. It still had some polaroids left inside, and they had aged into beautiful swirls of browns and greens. My mom bought me the little 1960s Brownie medium format at a yard sale. It came with a whole box of the original flash bulbs AND its original packaging.

The Catcher in the Rye poster was a birthday gift from my dad…because it was always my favorite book (trite, yes). 

The other framed piece was a birthday gift to Kyle from my mom. It’s an antique brochure of The Battle House Hotel, which Kyle reopened as the Front Office Manager back in May 2007. However, she totally tricked us because it’s a photocopy of one. Ha!

 
My most favorite gift of all time: my antique library card catalogue. Kyle, my wonderful boy, gave it to me for our second Christmas together. He completely surprised me. I saw it in an antique store one day, and I fell in love with it. I could not afford it by any means, so I said my goodbyes. On Christmas day, we went to Kyle’s mom’s house, and under the tree was the library card catalogue. I cried. Of course. To make it even better, Kyle had also bought me fifteen small treats, and he put one in each of the fifteen drawers. 

Sigh.

 I know I can’t really top that, but I’ll continue nonetheless.

The tiny thing hovering on the beam on the wall is actually a ballerina clock. I had one in my bedroom when I was a little kid, and when I was moving in with Kyle, my mom found me an identical one to take with me.

Our table is on loan from Kyle’s mom; I believe it was her mother’s. The chairs were my great-grandmother’s. I bought the mosaic lamp at a yard sale in Indiana — but don’t touch it; it’s broken and fragile!

Our coat hook is an antique ceramic tile painted as a Queen of Clubs playing card that I purchased in Savannah, Georgia when I lived there. Kyle and I have a sick obsession with antiques. There was also a King of Clubs coat hook, but I couldn’t afford both. I often wonder if he’s lonely…I hope he was adopted…

Come back tomorrow for the BEDROOM! Oh la la.