Dining Room Updates — Drapery Floral Fabric Sample And New Marketplace Chairs
Week before last, I showed y’all the fabric design that I had come up with for the draperies in our dining area, which is the room I hope to tackle when I’m finished with the storage room. Here’s the original design I shared with you.
After I shared that design, I made a few more tweaks to it, added more elements to it (including another bird), and this was the final design I came up with.
Here are the two side-by-side.
If you missed how I created this fabric pattern, you can see that process here: Designing My Dining Room Drapery Fabric (How To Create A Repeatable Pattern For Fabric)
I ordered one yard of the fabric so that I could see the pattern in person before ordering all of the yardage for the curtains. When I initially opened the package and unfolded the fabric, I was so excited. It’s so pretty!
But the more I looked at it, and compared it to the other colors in our home, I decided that the colors might be just a touch washed out. I wanted the blue-green background a little darker (not much, but just a little bit). I wanted the flowers, especially the pink flowers, more vibrant.
I hung the fabric over the window shade in the dining area so that the blackout lining on the shade would prevent light shining through the fabric since sunlight shining through the fabric makes it look even more washed out. And I like to sew my draperies with blackout lining, so this would give me a better idea of how the fabric would look on the windows. I put it up there on Friday, and I’ve lived with it up there all weekend.
After looking at it over the weekend, I still think it’s a bit too washed out, so I’ve made an easy edit to make the colors more saturated and vibrant. Here’s a comparison of the original pattern that I created on the left and the new, more vibrant/saturated pattern on the right. It’s a small change, but I think it’ll make a big difference.
In other news, I got dining chairs! I found these on Marketplace yesterday morning, and picked them up yesterday afternoon. I got them for $150, which seemed like too much to me at first. But $37.50 per chair for nice, sturdy chairs that don’t need repair is a fair price.
I was so excited when I found them. They’re exactly what I wanted — chairs that are upholstered on the backs that I can easily reupholster with the colors I want.
And of course, I’ll also paint the wood. Or I might try taking this finish off and seeing what the wood looks like. If it’s a pretty wood, I might keep them natural since I’m going to be painting the table. They’re in great condition, and they’re very sturdy.
I especially love this little spindle detail. Y’all know I’m a sucker for turned wood legs and turned wood details.
I’m still trying to work out the table and chairs arrangement in here. I only have four chairs so far, so if I decide to keep the table expanded, I’ll need two more coordinating chairs for the ends of the table. I envision those being fully upholstered wingback captain’s chairs, skirted or slipcovered to the floor in the bolded pink from the curtain fabric with white piping.
I’ll be taking the buffet out of the room, so that will give more room for the end chairs, but I’m still not sure if it’s enough room. I’ll work through those details when I finally get to this room. I really wish the kitchen peninsula didn’t encroach into this room. If I had that foot of space back, there would be plenty of room for end chairs.
But for now, I’m so excited that I now have a table, four chairs, and my drapery fabric. It’s coming together! Now I just need to decide on what to do with all of these pieces. I’m pretty sure I’m going to paint the table, including the tabletop, in a green color from the curtain fabric. If the wood on the chairs can be stripped, and there’s a pretty, light-colored wood underneath, I’ll keep those natural and then add drapery fabric to part of the chair (probably the back), a solid color piping, and then I envision a striped or geometric fabric with it. I’m still working all of that out, but what I do know that is that it will be colorful when it’s finished!
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Love the fabric, especially with the edits and the chairs. Can’t wait to see the finished room.
She shoots; she scores! Awesome find and at such a great price for those are really good-looking chairs. I can’t wait to see this room transformed, I know it will be a gem of a dining room.
Cheers to you, Matt, and the Fur Babies!
I agree that the fabric looks better with the additional birds and more vibrant colors. I would suggest making the background color even darker. I love the new chairs. They look great with the table. I hope things are moving forward smoothly on the storage closet.