Fall Dining Table

So Last year for Matt's birthday I surprised Matt with a "Bro Dinner" for his 31st. Eight dudes got together at our house for a catered steak dinner, scotch tasting, and cigars...

I of course took this as an opportunity to jazz up the old dining room table... I mean guys appreciate a good table setting and floral arrangement too right???

Here is what I did:

I dug through the old photo vault because I'm hoping to recreate this arrangement for a dinner that my boss is hosting tomorrow night.

I'll be sure to share the final product for tomorrow! 

Fall Dining Table

I wanted to share my fall table... I'm not calling it a thanksgiving table this year as I will not be home for Thanksgiving... I will be on my FINAL work trip... TEARS!

I actually couldn't FIND any of the items that I used last year (with the exception of my dollar Tree green wine glasses) I think that I must have packed them separate from my Halloween items and I only took out those bins this year fro decorating... So I just started from scratch!

The dishes are a mixture of our green everyday dishes that are from IKEA and the orange dishes were a fall find from the... DOLLAR TREE!

In the middle of the table I have a small cake stand that I got for $8.99 from Homegoods a few years ago, ceramic pumpkins from the Dollar tree, and silk fall leaves from the Dollar tree!

I also have a great new table cloth that I purchased a few months ago while in India for a work trip! You know I love anything with an elephant!!!

So there she is... my fall dining room.

Here is my Thanksgiving table from last year!

Sophie Park... The rug destroyer!!!

So yesterday I came home from work to THIS!!!

YES!!! Sophie decided to have her way with the rug that I JUST moved into our dining room!!! To make matters worse we had people coming over in just a few hours. To say that I was stressed out and upset is an understatement... Now I need to figure out what to do... all ideas welcome.

Dining Room changes

I had a lot going on this weekend to get ready for a Stella & Dot event that I'm hosting on Friday but that didn't stop me from making some big changes in our dining room...

If you remember, I had removed everything from the dining room in order to create a "sleepover room" for Emma's 9th birthday party sleepover.

that was over two weeks ago and I had still not place the furniture back in... slacker.

This is what I was looking at on Friday... Yes I took the opportunity to deep clean the rug! One item off my spring cleaning list!

Next... I decided that I was ready for a change and brought up my orange and cream zebra print rug (overstock) from the basement. (The basement is more of a playroom and I really wanted to showcase this fun rug)

The table was brought inside from our screened in porch.

ehhh let's take a closer look at those chair cushions...

The green just was not matching the new rug.... off to World Market where I found these great Kavita Chair cushions for $14.99 each

I love the vibrant colors!

Much better! (I love that Sophie always needs to get right in the picture)

and here is the table all set!

I love looking into the dining room and seeing the bright colors!

Here is a side by side of what the room use to look like on a "typical" day and what it looks like now.