The dining room color is Woodlawn Colonial Gray, another NOVA plantation (seen here behind the couch)!:
**Our dining room looked like this when we visited it - they "gave" us the "window treatments" AKA lengths of fabric stuck through plastic-finished hooks in (eww):
Our plan with the dining room is this:
Ethan Allen - Townhouse Rectangular Dining Table
It has drawers on either end to store serving pieces, etc, and can extend to being 120" long! The legs are fluted and just amazing!
For chairs, we are planning on going with a chippendale side chair of about 5 on either side, so 10 total, and then 2 host/arm chairs. We may over time add a few more to fill in the wall spaces left!
The bay window has a space which would be sweet to put a couch/loveseat in but there is no room. So, our best option is a storage console piece which we could move during the holidays to stick a tree in. This is the one we have been going with - it is from the same collection as the Ethan Allen Dining Room table:
My mother was incredibly kind and gave us her old display case from her first marriage. It was used for storage when I was growing up on our farm, in the barn, for I believe horse accessories/etc, and now has a neat shabby-chic wearing to it. The pecan has withstood time well (as good pecan should), and has an older grey-ish finish on it, which we look forward to sandpapering off a good bit, to really make it look even more antiqued. There are two lights which need to be replaced on the inside, and the shelves are made of glass. I am on the fence about this, but I am thinking maybe replacing the glass and their holders with a grey-covered velvet would make it better for fine display pieces - wedding china/silver, antiques from my family, collections of my grandmama, etc...
For looks, it is very similar to this china cabinet and display piece by Ethan Allen (Maison), except flat across the top - and the pecan is marbleized underneath the fading finish:
Lastly, we want a blue and gray oriental carpet with touches of ivory, rose, and champagne tones for the dining room.
So, here are some inspirations on those lines...
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What do you all think? Draperies are natch our last thought, as these pieces are much more significant in the order presented!
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