Dining Room Makeover

So here is what London and I worked on last week.  I can't tell you how happy this little makeover makes me.  The walls in the dining room are already peacock blue.  Believe it or not I didn't paint them that color! The owners did.  (Thank you owners!!)  This shelf is set into the kitchen cabinets and the dark wood behind my dishes wasn't working.  I need a temporary solution since we are renting.  I've had several people tell me to try the cornstarch-fabric-wallpaper-thing.  I finally took the plunge.  Now, we were a bit lazy and used spray starch and I did have to tack the corners.  It may have stuck better with the cornstarch/water mixture or liquid starch.  But even with the tacked corners I am THRILLED with the results.  Has anyone else tried this?  Any tips?

My dining room chairs have more coats of paint than I can count.  I am really enjoying the bright yellow.  I'd give you the color, but I had to tint it like 15 times to get just the right shade.  The first time I painted them they were so bright it hurt to look at them.  

With all the yellow and turquoise, what this room needed was some bright pink.  The main motif is pieced from different shades of Painters Canvas and the embellishing flowers were cut out of Gypsy Vine.  I used some fusible interfacing to iron on this motif and then just machine stitched circles over the the entire thing.  Here is the template for the main motif. 

Well, the boys have watched entirely too much TV today.  I'd better get going.

 

Comments

[shannon]

Beautiful as always Laura.

[Laura Gunn]

Ahhh Shannon. It's so nice to hear from you. I miss you!!!!!

[Janet]

What a fantastic idea with the kitchen cabinets. We were thinking about painting ours but now I think I'll try this out. Thank you!

[MFM]

Where were you when I had my pitiful little efficiency in DC some 40 years ago? Alright,so you wern't a thought at the time but BOY, I could
have used you big time!!!!
What great ideas and the colors are to die for.
Way to go,kiddo.
Aunt Muff