Internet at home is up and running finally!
It was actually working last night but I didn’t leave work till 8:30pm and wasn’t in the mood to blog by the time I got home.
In the last post I said I’ll share some “after” pics, but the place is still in too much of a mess (more unpacking needed in the weekend) so I thought I’ll write about something else.
J and I lived without a proper dining table for a long time, because there wasn’t any room to put a reasonably sized dining table in the old apartment. Now that we have a proper dining room, we’re looking forward to not using Stable Tables for meals.
We decided to go all out and get an 8-seater. The previous owner had one (look here and scroll to “Dining Room” if you want to refresh your memory) and it’ll be good for dinner parties and Christmas lunches (J and I can invite both sets of parents and my brother).
We knew early on that we wanted light colours because of the orange feature wall. We settled on lime-wash stained timber after seeing this table.
This is the “Jimmy” table from Jimmy Possum. J really liked the steel frame legs and we both liked the polished look. We decided against it at the end because we don’t think it works with the rest of the apartment, and also because the chair to go with the table is $1000 EACH.
We ended up getting our dining table and chairs custom made from another store. Here’s a sketch of the table.
It’ll be in Tasmanian Oak and stained in the same colour as the Jimmy table.
And here’s a photo of the chair.
The legs will be stained in the same colour as the table and instead of fabric, it’ll be upholstered in a cream coloured leather like the chair in the background. We were actually planning to get the chair in the background but the interior design consultant from Jimmy Possum (her name is Karenza and she is fantastic) recommended a chair with a lower back because high-back chairs are likely be too much for the size of the room.
There’s a bit of space on the other side of the dining room and we’re thinking of getting a buffet/sideboard to store our CDs/DVDs, and to put our keys etc when we are home. We also want to get a mirror to hang above the buffet. We haven’t decided yet but we’re probably going to get them from the same store. Here are the sketches we received today.
The doors of the buffet will be upholstered with this fabric to pick up on the colour of the feature wall.
I’m not 100% certain about the dimensions of the mirror - need to get the tape measure out to see how it will sit on the wall.
I think the dining room will look fantastic once all the pieces are in place. What do you think?
looks great! I love the colour of the timber’s limewash… want that colour for my kitchen benchtops when the time comes. can’t wait to see it all together. B