My Dining Room

I feel so fancy having a dining room in my apartment! Ok, so it's actually just a little nook off of the living room, but to me it's a dining room! And, because I have my craft/office/sitting room, I don't have to store my desk, sewing machine, and craft stuff there like I did in my old place! So I have gone all fancy and made it beautiful! And I finally finished it last night so here is my new grown up dining room!

One of the main things I wanted to do (other than decorations on the walls) was to make my table look a bit nicer.

This is the table before

Now its not a bad table.  I actually really like it, but it didn't fit into the theme of the room, so I wanted to make a table cloth! I say make because apparently black tablecloths don't exist for less than $50 and I wasn't about to spend anywhere near that much on a tablecloth.  Luckily, I found some old black fabric in one of my boxes and it was the perfect size! It just needed a hem.

And iron and lint roller....

Much better!

So I gave it a hem

Jubilee wanted to help...

It's hard to see but it looks super professional =)

(And remember, I taught myself to sew just a few months ago!)

Then, I took my table runner fabric (from the scraps bin at Jo-Anns) and gave that a hem too! (I know, a table runner? Super fancy!)

All pinned!

Here you can see that professional hem =)

Then I put them on the table with the cloth napkins I found at walmart for $1! (I will be making more later)

How pretty!! 

Also, look at the 4 canvases on the wall, they are the next post!

And just so you can see all the decorations:

 The dining room got all the Aggie decor because it matched!

 I love this poster!

My barstool!!! Yayyy!!! 

(I'm considering spray painting the legs black because 

I didn't end up with any other brown in the dining room, 

but that won't happen for a while)

And the whole thing:

So, what do you think? Will you be making your own tablecloth? Are table runners just the coolest things or what?