Comments on: purging the dining room

By: Aubrey

Aubrey

How is this the first time I have noticed your collection of globes?! Adorbs! I live in a tiny house with a eat in kitchen…and I dream of a “real” dining room…somewhere I can show off my Mom’s yellow china!
*Sigh* all the dreams of a bigger house…

By: Kelly

Kelly

This was a great post about making the space into something you’ll actually use. We still have a dining room but I only have a buffet and not the china cabinet on top. My mom could not for the life of her figure out why I didn’t want to display all our fine china in the cabinet anymore. It felt like we were trying to be people that we really aren’t. So now I have a huge mirror above the buffet flanked by pretty botanical prints. So much fresher and so much more “us.”

By: Just

Just

yes ma’am, been there done that! We had a dining room in once house that we used like once for a holiday meal. Then it became a playroom cause that ‘s what we needed at that stage. Different house, less space, older kids, wha-la dining room becomes an office. And that office gets used every day by husband or by kiddos doing homework, art projects etc. To me it’s just another room with walls, and that just happens to have a fancier light hanging from the ceiling.

By: Pam

Pam

PERFECT! We are about to get rid of our dining room – I feel the same way. Though it will not be this way forever – I do love your sentiments about how to work with your home so that it eventually works more for you!

By: Jenna

Jenna

Love this. Great advice- we use ours as a playroom because we needed the space but I’ve always felt bad about it! This post helps a lot- thank you!