Dining Room Mood Board & Updates

Remember this post about my dining room?  I've been slowly making updates to it.  It's taking longer than usual mainly because at 32 weeks, I find myself exhausted most of the time.  The interior designer created a mood board for the space, I simplified it, but here is the jist of it.  

My Dining Room Mood Board

The walls have been painted which I think has been the biggest transformation.  We painted over wallpaper!!  I wouldn't recommend that for everyone, but there are a lot of reasons we decided to do that.  I plan on doing a separate post on that.  

Melissa, from Windows by Melissa, is making my roman shades.  I primed and my husband painted our sideboard and we got new hardware. 

We got a new rug and we painted our existing dining room table and chairs.  Since our DR table and chairs had a finish on it, I originally planned on using an oil based primer and a latex paint.  

But, I then learned about a product from Sherwin Williams called 'adhesion primer'.  It basically allows you to prime without sanding.  It bonds tightly to surfaces considered 'unpaintable' like, ceramics, PVC piping, furniture with existing stains, etc.  This would allow me to 'skip' the sanding and actually use a latex based primer instead of an oil based primer.  Latex is a lot easier to work with.  So, I bought it and tried it. 

The true test will be time, but I have to say it was a dream to use.  Now, here comes the major setback.  My husband (who didn't even want to re-do the dining room because we're moving soon) spent a half day (while I was at work) painting the table and chairs for me.  When we brought the furniture into the room, we noticed that color on the furniture was off and not the same as the walls.  (We're painting the furniture the same color as the walls).  We re-checked the paint can to confirm that it was the right color and number, but noticed that the formula used was different from the formula used on the walls.  I am so upset.  

We will go back to the paint store to complain, but you just can't get back all the time and labor that went into painting the table and chairs.  My poor husband.  So, right now, I have to figure out what to do, but I am so deflated.   So, stay tuned....this saga will be continued......

In other news, I want to thank Elizabeth from The Mustard Ceiling for featuring my hallway yesterday on her blog - see here. 

I was very flattered as she is a great designer and DIYer.  Her blog is full of amazing projects!!  Thanks, Elizabeth!

After Exam Break

I went out with my cousin in-law? honestly, how do you call someone whom is married to your husband's cousin? well anyway I like to refer to her as a good friend, her name is Juhanisa or Joh for short. Since Joh and I are so close in age, we have many of the same interests.  Take it from the fact that we're both young mommies, she also have a boy and girl toddlers.  So I texted her If she could accompany me to go outside after my exam; you know just to relieve some stress and fortunately she said yes. That's what I like about her, she is always available. hahaha. No seriously thank you for always being there.

We went to Greenbelt, Glorietta, SM makati, and Trinoma. yes four malls in one day. 

us

She wears her veil perfectly.

Whoops blouse/Folded and Hung pants  

Forever 21 belt/ bag from HK/ Cole Vintage Brogues

that's it! I enjoyed the day hoping I passed the exam though. :)

xoxo!

Aquapalooza.

We 'paloozed it up this weekend. What is Aquapalooza? A big fun party on the lake. They have them all over -- you can read all about it here. They should really call it Peeapalooza. I mean really ----- where are all those people going to the bathroom???????There were TONS of boats just tied up together listening to the music...If you are a fan of music then you might think it's cool that Sawyer Brown was the entertainment. We didn't think it was that cool so we left before he ever went on stage. But there was good music all day by lots of semi-decent artist....Overall, it was a blast! Can't wait to go back next year.

Anybody else been to Aquapalooza?

Pssshhhh...see a pic of Tal and I on al.com from Aquapalooza here.