Bar Cart Ideas Dining Room
How I adapted my dining room: afore and after…
This is allotment of my alternation about howI’m decorating my accommodation in France.You can analysis out the added apartment here.
I’ve consistently admired the attending of old-timey smoker lounges. You apperceive the style: checkerboard everywhere, aphotic blooming walls, floor-to-ceiling bookcases abounding with age-old books, copse panelled walls and ceilings, assumption tables, and covering chairs. Although I’d never buy annihilation fabricated of beastly leather, I am actively in adulation with aggregate tartan. This is my inspiration:
I would LIVE central Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar, if I could!
The allowance I had to assignment with wasn’t a absolute fit for this appearance of decorating, aback its copse panels and beam were already corrective white (and I wasn’t about to band and stain them — not in a rental, anyway!) so I did the best I could with what I had. While the ablaze fixtures, drapery, rugs, and some of the appliance was able for these articles, I nabbed several abundant finds off of France’s adaptation of Craigslist (called LeBonCoin) and DIY’d.
This was afore we confused in (that’s the antecedent tenant’s furniture):
The antecedent tenant, Lisa, and Mike attractive at the view.
And here’s the daybed I bought for €50 afore I corrective the copse gold (using a semi-transparent gold acrylic that shows the copse underneath). I plan on reupholstering the bench cushions application checkerboard bolt analogous the drapes, and authoritative several bandy pillows from the aforementioned fabric. I’ll amend this commodity already I’m done!
And this is now…
This brownish-green clover daybed is Flamant’s Sofia Sofa. I put a herringbone bandy absolute over the top to accord it a added accidental look, and to assure the velvet:
I got these gorgeous, soft, checkerboard curtains from Curtains2Go, fabricated for my apartments’ extra-tall ceilings. I was actual abundantly afraid by how high-quality they are. They feel and attending like a wool-cashmere mix, but they’re vegan (and won’t allure moths into your home!)
I got all the appliance you see in this attempt on LeBonCoin. It’s all vintage. The apple opens up into a bar (I denticulate it for €40) and the chairs are antiques (for alone €25 each!) #TotalSteal!
And, of course, a chargeless backing photo (if you appetite to see more, chase our kitties on Instagram):
The candles are electric and I adulation this stag arch candle holder:
This attractive age-old adamant chaplet chandelier is from the Fredrick Ramond Collection at Hinkley Lighting. I adulation the antiqued bottle and the best attending of it:
The carpeting is from CarpetVista… I adulation the pattern!
The red bookshelf is from Grange. They let me accept the colors and finishes, so it akin altogether with the attending I was activity for. Central are adorning tins from my admired tea brand, remote-controlled electric candles (since absolute ones are a hazard aback you accept cats), and I begin the horse carve in the allowance boutique of the lesser-known alcazar that aggressive Versailles.
Bookshelf by Grange
The dining table is from French Heritage. It’s the alone allotment of appliance we brought with us aback we larboard NYC for our year in France (we donated aggregate else!) I best it up at ABC Home in NYC and I actually adulation it. It’s fabricated from reclaimed wood. The blooming chairs are from Flamant and the amber ones are best — I best them up on LeBonCoin for €8 each, again corrective the award detail on them gold.
Mike affiliated this sculptural bank art from his grandmother, and the blow we bought on eBay or LeBonCoin for about €15 to €40 each:
I corrective the gold on the stag head, and although it was quick to do, it absolutely fabricated the carve pop:
The monkey lamp is by Zara Home (I corrective it, and I plan on re-doing the adumbration with checkerboard fabric), and can you accept I begin this horse bronze befuddled out with the debris on the street??
This was an old (dark brown) and abandoned grandfathering alarm that addition was throwing out, so I nabbed it. With Manon’s help, we corrective it red, again acclimated atramentous wax on the edges to accord it an antiqued finish. The aback console has cardboard (featuring best European biking ads) decoupaged assimilate it. Decoupage (which is basically application a appropriate cement to affix adorning cardboard assimilate a apparent and accomplish it water-resistant) is a abundant way to bound change the attending of appliance for actual little accomplishment or cost. To about-face the abandoned alarm into a lamp, I bought these braiding lights and some Edison-style (but eco-friendly) bulbs for the inside.
We distressed, sanded, re-stained and added aphotic wax accents to the coffee table so that it would bout the dining table, and again I abounding the basal shelf with lath games. We bought the table (for –yup, you estimated it– €20) from a woman who had the best admirable cat I’d anytime apparent — a rescue. Mike and I agitated it beyond the burghal to get it home, but it was account it, because it angry out beautifully:
The woman who awash us this best assumption bar barrow (for €15) delivered it to us and we had a nice babble about the best villages in France. I adulation affairs acclimated because it’s eco-friendly, because a penny adored is a penny donated aback we die (since we’re not accepting kids, 100% of what we die with is activity to charities like Mercy for Animals), but additionally because I get to accommodated so abounding nice people!
In the end, I got abutting to the attending I was activity for, but not exactly… Aback my dining allowance has a white ceiling, white doors, and white wainscoting, so I’m afraid to acrylic the walls dark, aback the adverse ability attending too intense, and the allowance still too light. But I’m actual blessed with how it angry out, and if you accept any suggestions about things to change, or any DIY tips, amuse let me apperceive below, in the comments discussion.
