"Dining Room" Introductions

If you're anything like me, you love seeing pictures of other people's homes.  Sure, magazine spreads are inspiring and beautiful, but there's just something so interesting and fun about seeing the inside of a real person's home.  Maybe it's the voyeur in us?  Or maybe it's that when we do so, we can learn so much about a person.  I suppose thinking that way can tend to make us feel like there's a lot of pressure on making our homes as close to perfect as we can get.  I'd like to think it's actually quite the contrary.  It's not so much the "perfection" but really the character that our homes and the things with which we choose to surround ourselves have that make them unique and interesting, regardless of how perfect they may or may not feel.  

With that said, I thought I'd share some pictures of our dining room.  I'm choosing to call this my "dining room" when really, it's simply an eat-in kitchen.  But dining room sounds far lovelier, so we'll go with that :)  I'm planning to share more about the different things in this room soon.  

For comparison's sake, here's where we started back in August.  

And just so we're clear, this was the situation a few moments prior to my little photo shoot :) (consider yourself fortunate that you aren't able to see the dried up bits of roast beef leftover from lunch littering the floor!)