Dining Room Sweetness

We've made lots of progress on the house. The upstairs is mostly unpacked. The kitchen and dining room are completely unpacked. We just won't talk about the living room and entry way.

But, that's all beside the point. Today, I want to walk you through our dining room.

There are mostly good things in the dining room.

First, it a huge room, with a HUGE window, tall ceilings and hardwood floors.


It also has our only East facing window in the whole house (which is weird.)

We use it for the air conditioner.

There are two floor heating vents, one is super cool, and the other is okay.



Oh, and we have a pocket door. It is soooo cool.



But, like the rest of the house, there are bad things too.

First, it doesn't have the same wood trim that the rest of the house has. The floors are a total mess. And the ceiling needs to be fixed due to cracks and water damage. I didn't really get pictures of these things for some reason.

Also, the overhead light is UGLY, luckily that is a very easy fix.


There are tons of marks on the walls. Some are from furniture rubbing against the walls. Some are from the previous owners habit of "fixing" marks on the walls by painting over the marks with a similar, but not identical paint color. This interesting fix is throughout the house. It drives me crazy.


We have water damage under the window, it isn't so bad.


Like a lot of the house, the room was retrofitted for electricity, and we need a new thermostat.



All and all a pretty good room. We've got some work ahead of us, but the basics will be easy fixes, just a little paint and putty.

One great thing we found today in our kitchen, and I don't know how we missed this before is this:

The trim is actually taped on to the wall to keep it in place. TAPED. With Scotch Tape. Seriously? That is ridiculous.