Cooking up a Dining Room

After getting lots of great feedback from the Room Recipe post last week, I figured that I'd better put together another one! This time our dining room is the dish. As with the bedroom post, inexpensive alternatives to the sources used are provided since some of my stuff isn't available to buy.

 1. Paint - Home Depot Behr Paint & Primer in One - Fashion Gray UL260-6
2. Chandelier - Z Gallerie - Tuxedo Chandelier
3. Rug - FLOR - Side by Side
4. Chairs - Restoration Hardware - Martine Dining Chairs
5. Table - Custom 70" round, solid Walnut wood
6. Lamps - Home Goods
7. Mirror - Antique
8. Buffet - World Market
9. China Cabinet - Macy's
10. Prints - Taschen - Temple of Flora

Lighting - Overstock Fabric Shade Chandelier

Rug - Burke Decor Westport Collection Indoor Outdoor Rug

Chairs - Home Decorators Becca Nailhead Dining Chair

Round Table - Z Gallerie Sonoma Dining Table

Lamps - Target White Accent Lamp

Mirror - Smart Bargains Cooper Classics Rondel Tarnished Gold Mirror

Sideboard - IKEA Trollsta

China Cabinet - IKEA Edland

Prints - Etsy Framed Original Linocuts

Let me know if you have any other ideas for "ingredient" substitutes :)

Finally, so sorry for the lack of posts over the past week. After being out of town, I've been trying to catch up on things and haven't made much progress. Hopefully I'll get it together before Friday!

Mercury Rising...at least in Austin

I live in Dallas, which means that today it's almost 70 degrees and yesterday there was snow on the ground. Our weather is notoriously unpredictable, but hopefully that was the last cold spell of the season. I got spoiled when we were in Austin last weekend and it was warm and sunny. I'm so ready for consistent poolside conditions!

Speaking of Austin, we stopped in the most fabulous shop during our visit. It's called Mercury and I was in heaven perusing their funky-chic merchandise. They sum up the store concept on their business card as artifacts, gifts, and design studio. Here's a sampling...

This book nook is the coolest.

Art-o-Mat (guarded by a stuffed fox) is a brilliant concept. Basically, retired cigarette machines are converted to art vending machines. There are only 82 machines in the US, most are in museums and galleries.

I'm sure you'll be shocked, but I'm obsessed with this black and white accent wall. Trying to figure out where it could work in our house.

Missoni-eque chair.

They have the Temple of Flora book! This is the source for many of the framed botanical prints around our house.

Needlepoint zebra chair + Thomas Paul pillow.

What a great centerpiece this pedestal bowl would make!

Patent, tufting, cane, Greek key, and black/white all in one pic! I would take it all aside from the skunk. I can only imagine what my dogs would do to a piece of taxidermy.

Turquoise and orange phones...so cute. After dealing with the insane amount of calls my cell phone drops, I wouldn't mind going back to the good old days of corded telephones!

For purchasing inquires, check out their website or call 512.236.0100.

Walls

Getting a few things hung on the walls finally...some of my favorites are from the Temple of Flora book I got from Stanley Korshak last year. Thanks to Clay's friend Jeremy for doing such an awesome job on the framing! He framed 21 of them for us and they are all perfect. We have them sprinkled throughout the house.

Still need to change the curtains...unfortunately the ones I'm going to use are still hanging at our old house in a futile attempt to keep it looking semi-ok :(Some of the black and white prints from the book...I adore these!
FINALLY painted the entry...the color turned out nice, however, if I can force myself to pick up the paintbrush again, I'm going to paint it with black chalkboard paint!

We have had this mirror for almost 2 yrs and it has finally been hung. Captain Procrastination (aka JCK) finally bit the bullet. Whoops...I think we hung it a little high!
Moved the suzani rug in here even though this whole set-up is temporary since Clay's parents are gifting us a new table/chairs.