Divine Dining

We have a pretty little dining room with a pretty little picture window that looks out to my neighbour's house. Picture windows were of utmost importance in the early design of mid century modern houses in Calgary. And according to Thomas Hine, "was not only a way of looking out on one's achievement, but a way of looking in..." Proud home owners carefully selected key items to 'display' in their picture windows - a showcase of their modernity and rising middle class affluence. Nowadays me and the girls prefer to showcase our dancing and lip syncing skills in our picture window. And certainly not to anyone's benefit in the neighbourhood...

The painting is by my friend Tanya - a native Calgarian who moved to Montreal a few years ago.

Dining rooms are going by the way of the dinosaur in new houses. Too formal. No need for two tables. Well, we love our little dining room, with its laminated plywood walls and sweet detailing on the ceiling.

When we first moved into the house this window had original mustard yellow curtains and no blinds. We hired a blind company to help us find a replacement for this and the living room window. We tried every colour and style and you know what ended up working this best for this wall of wood? Exactly the same colour as the wall.

We did very little to update this room and apart from the blinds and a coat of paint, we changed out the light to one we purchased at the Bad Teak Store last January in New Westminster (I think the owner prefers Mid Century Modern HOME).

Both hubby and I like our dining room table - circa 20-dark furniture, but we would like to start collecting fun MCM classic chairs to replace the boring leather parsons. Heeelllllloooo Kit and Mid Century Dweller! I've been so good this year. Swearzies.

Vintage light of one that looks a leetle bit like this

Some pictures of brick walls from a past trip to San Fran

Glass fishing balls and some thrifting finds

Doorway to the kitchen

Secret pocket door - not sure why anyone would feel the need to close doors to the kitchen. Maybe if I was making a birthday cake or wrapping some presents? I need to do some research on this - will keep you posted.

LP