six years later, one room completely finished

We bought this fixer-upper about 6 years ago and have been remodeling ever since.  We've done a lot of the heavy lifting (scraping off cottage cheese ceilings, brand new kitchen, removing sliding glass doors and walling it in and putting a door to the outside elsewhere and a huge list of other stuff) But not one of the rooms do I consider complete.  Kitchen still needs curtains, master bedroom needs baseboards...small stuff.  

In our quest to clean out the basement we brought up some artsy stuff.  I've been looking for a few months for something for the wall in the dining room.  What I should have been doing is "shopping" my basement.

I am so married to an engineer.  If the pencil marks showed up well on camera I would have taken a picture of what he drew on the wall to ensure proper placement.

Bought these cool old chippy painted porch posts.  Jason cut them down to fit in between the living and dining room. and then anchored them in.  We're doing our best to step out of the cookie-cutter suburban house floor plan and add some architectural elements.  We had these hickory hard wood floors put in in the entire first floor and absolutely love them.

 These pictures were wedding gifts from Jason's dad.

It's a bit too small for the space, but so ornate I didn't want to add anything else.  I'm not sure this will end up staying (shhh, don't tell Jason). But it's good enough for now.

This is actually my favorite corner of the room.  Love this little antique (vintage) hutch.  Found it in a boutique in old Littleton that was changing their business and they were getting rid of all their display pieces.  I convinced..bullied...begged my friend Colleen to come pick it up with me.  What a sight we were trying to shove that thing in the back of her mini-van (you're a trooper Colleen!)

I need to erase and start over on my chalkboard menu -- hate my handwriting. It's not as easy as it looks to write with chalk.

I was actually thinking of going for a black and white toile but then found this material and fell in love.  I was so sad that someone else had it on hold.....then it turns out that the hold had expired a couple days before so the sales lady said  could have it.  Yay...and only a tinge of guilt..well there's more guilt really about the price of the material...but yay.

Pretty much everything but the material for the curtains were on sale, used, discontinued or a gift, so splurging on some material -- I'm okay with.  It really wasn't all that expensive a room.