Striped Dining Room

In our tiny one bedroom apartment, the dining room gets a lot of use; it's part dining room, part office, and often an extension of the living room when we have people over for TV watching events like the super bowl or the oscars.

When we first moved in, a dining room table was one of the first things we bought.  Kyle's bachelor-pad style table that you can see in the "before"  was a. definitely not my style and b.  too small for our formal dining space.   Thankfully, we picked up a fun farm-house style table from cost plus (this one is similar)  and a variety of upholstered chairs from Sears (yes, so random-never thought I'd buy furniture from Sears).

Here is the before and after:

 

My First Before and After

Our living room has come a long way since we moved in. We've moved a lot of things in and out but I'm pretty happy with our current layout.  I had a hard time with the room because the combination of the limited plugs and 2 doorways make the layouts limited.

When we first moved in (around Christmas time as you'll see by the picture below)  we picked up some furniture from the street (literally, someone accross the street dumped it)  The sofas were comfy for a while but I was just not happy with the dark color and they took up too much floor space.

I didn't take any post-Christmas photos but this should give you the idea.

Here is my before and after:

I'm trying to figure out some ways to add color to the room, but I'm pretty happy with it for now. 

Here are some other angles: