My Christmas Dining Room 2012

For some strange reason I gravitate to using a lot of brown in my dining room at Christmas time.

I like it, but I've never really loved it.

In November I ordered a brown striped runner for my Christmase table and I like it, but then I realized
 "I'm doing it again".

So I tried to pull a lot of white into the room to give it more of the cottage look that I love.

I decided to take everything off the buffet while I took photos of the tablescape.

I found the stuff on the buffet was too distracting.

Then when I was editing the photos it turns out that the lamps I placed on the floor

 show up in almost single every photo!

But I'm sick today, so you understand why I didn't want to retake all the pictures.

I figured it would give you a laugh.

 

My dishes and chargers I've had for many years and they were both from Walmart.

Pretty fancy, eh. ;)

These cute trees are from Target. I wish they had left the burlap pots plain.

Maybe I'll re pot them next year.

I've had these two metal bird lanterns for awhile and I've never found a spot for them in my house.

They were brown and I just painted them white.

I got the deer from TJ Maxx after Christmas last year.

He stands in front of an old wood box I filled with grapevine balls and evergreen.

The balls used to be gold, but one year I used them outside when decorating for Christmas and they were really dingy looking afterwards.

So they got a fresh coat of white paint and I think they look a little bit like snowballs.

The runner is more dish towel by the yard from Quilters Studio.

(I used a red striped one in my breakfast room)

I painted some paper mache pears white, they are from Michael's dollar section.

 

I'm in the process of refinishing my buffet so I kept it really simple.

The top is sanded down and almost ready to be stained.

The bottom will be painted white.

 I can't wait for it to be finished, but I know it's going to take me awhile.

Here's the buffet and dining table together.

I have two more areas I want to decorate for Christmas, but I'm running out of steam, so we'll see.

 

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Write by: AN - Tuesday, December 11, 2012