The Great Living Room/Dining Room Reveal....

Saturday morning and oh, how I am itching to head out to some estate and yard sales. Can't do it, tho. Hubby is physically out of commission with a badly inflamed foot and is now comfortably ensconced in front of the t.v. with a whole schedule of upcoming football games on his plate. Darn the luck. Now there is NO way I'll be able to get him to come with me to help lift or carry - or give his "valuable" input on something. And I'm thinking it probably wouldn't be very nice of me to leave him on his own with no one around to step and fetch for him.... bummer. Oh well, on the bright side - at least I'll be saving money today!

Well.... Mom's furniture is now here at the house and set up. Here is the china hutch, complete with all her china and knick knacks - and the dining room table, which sorely needs to be refinished. Note Mom's beautiful turquoise blue Wedgewood China which she bought when she was teaching in London during the 1950's:

And here is her brass table- purchased Christmas day, 1958 in Delhi, India - beautifully highlighted on my vintage shag rug find:

And now, here is the whole look put together. The marble topped end tables are my mom's, lamps are thrift store finds. I'm starting to not feel the need so much for a room divider anymore...

Looking from front entry door near built-in planter:

Posters still need to be framed. Note vintage sixties lava lamp (!) on mantle.

"Dino" presiding over his retro-kingdom. Mirrored console from TJ Maxx on clearance.  Blue vase - thrift store find. Vintage ashtray - a $7 thrift store find. The hat rack and bowler hat were Grandpa's.

View looking toward kitchen - The diamond pattern is what hubby taped up to give us an idea of what it would look like if we painted something like that there.... I do think I like it.

Looking toward the front picture window with my $20 thrift store recliner!

Those footstools need to be re-vinyled - the little one was my grandmother's. As was the  1907 table in front of the window (I may be moving that elsewhere).  The lamp?? Yeah, crazy, isn't it!  One of those 4 estate sale lamps they practically paid me to take - says "Fujimato" on the base.  Sort of "so ugly, it's cool", if you know what I mean! Still have to figure what kind of drapes to get for here.

Here is the built-in kitchen hutch - holding some Salem North Star china I found at Goodwill, along with some mid-century embossed cocktail glasses and melmac plates/cups:

Here is a shot of the kitchen with craigslist counter bar stools -

I'm seriously thinking of painting those kitchen cabinets a turquoise blue - a 'la the following gorgeous inspiration pic I found at Retrorenovation.com, thanks to submitter, "Ann" there: Retrorenovation.com painted kitchen cabinets . What do ya' think?

 So... Now you have at least some idea of how my living/dining room will hopefully look when all this is said and done. Still lot's more to do - but at least I'm starting to make some headway in all of this - that is if I don't get a wild hair and decide to change everything all up some day before it's all said and done!  

Now... I still need to concentrate on the kitchen, family room addition - and think about how I'm going to decorate those super cute pink and blue vintage bathrooms :-)  Fun, Fun, Fun - Stay tuned!