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A few months ago I shared our dining room with you guys and talked about some possible changes we would be making in the space for the future.  Yesterday I shared our new dining table and chairs , today I want to review our original to do list for the dining room updates.  Let's see what has gotten done, what still needs to get done, and what ideas have been added or changed. Dining Room To Do List First, remove the little black mirror by the shelves, seeing these pictures I'm now sure, I hate it there. Sand, prime, paint the trims and window (you can see the blue tape where I started).  Buy chairs I am not sure what style but they need to be comfy, strong, durable and easy to clean. Build or buy dining table, I think I want to rebuild the same  modern farmhouse dining table  we built for our our previous house but tweaking it a bit so that crumbs don't get stuck in the crannies. Replace the grey cabinet with something similar to the ones I mentioned earlier in...

After stalking the Ikea website for a month waiting for the chairs to come back in stock, we got'em!  We now have a beautiful combination of skogsta chairs and parsons dining room table.  Our dining room has always suffered from identity crisis.  But it's finally starting to feel more like us. A few weeks ago I shared this mood board for the dining room but some things have already changed.  As you can see we ended up buying four chairs instead of two.  After looking at the mood board a few times something didn't feel right.  I realized I didn't like the way the rounded back of windsor chairs looked next to the flat back of the skogsta chairs.  I was planning on keeping them and painting them black but instead we are just going to build a bench and use the skogsta chairs around.   I like the look of mix matched chairs but this room is small and I think it would look too busy with so many different types of seating.  We are going to keep it ...