{"id":14985,"date":"2013-01-01T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2013-01-02T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:53:46","slug":"redoing-dining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=14985","title":{"rendered":"Redoing Dining"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that things are getting back to normal around these parts, it’s time to rethink dining. \u00a0As in the dining room. \u00a0As in the area of the house that is probably the most unused part of most of our homes. \u00a0Think about it. \u00a0How many times do you actually dine in the dining room each year? \u00a0There’s Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, the kids’ birthdays, and the occasional dinner parties that we throw.<\/h3>\n

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Since our formal dining area shares a space with our main living area in the great room, I decided to streamline it. \u00a0I took some of the chairs to the basement storage area, and \u00a0decided to give the top a library table look.<\/h3>\n

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I asked myself \u00a0“What would Ralph, as in Ralph Lauren, do?”, and I came up with a plan.<\/h3>\n

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I went to my decorating stash and pulled out some rustic, as in the distressed lawn balls, wooden bowl and shoe form, and mixed them with some fancy.<\/h3>\n

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I like to have some blues around in January because it’s a cool color, and well, January is a cool\/cold month. \u00a0I pulled out some blue books, along with my vintage Hans Brinker and the<\/em> Silver Skates<\/em> book that spent December in our sunroom<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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I also tossed in an old school marm’s bell, a flow blue plate from my grandmother (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), and a piece of handkerchief glass.<\/h3>\n

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\u00a0The fancy came in the form of these silver candlesticks. \u00a0I also added some new books to the mix, including the new Young House Love<\/em> goodie.<\/h3>\n

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I love how removing the additional chairs really opened up the room. \u00a0I kept a chair on each end to anchor the table and so we can sit down anytime to look in a book or write a note. \u00a0The brown pillows on the chairs add a masculine vibe.<\/h3>\n

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I plan to buy some coffee table books this week at the local public library’s used book section to stack on the floor. \u00a0They will give it even more of a library table feel. \u00a0So, by redoing the dining scene, this area will get used more than just a few times a year.<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n

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Now that things are getting back to normal around these parts, it’s time to rethink dining. \u00a0As in the dining room. \u00a0As in the area of the house that is probably the most unused part of most of our homes. \u00a0Think about it. \u00a0How many times do you actually dine in the dining room each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14985"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}