My $50 dining room make over

So about once a year I do these... the $50 make overs. Only this time, it involved large pieces of furniture, so it seemed like even a bigger feat to me.

Here is a link to my dining room when I first painted it. It looked great then. This was before baby #3. About 2 1/2 years ago. So before the computer and high chair and two homeschoolers needed to move in to that same space. Since then, it has gotten cluttered. Difficult to move in, and pretty much the most overused space in our 900 sq ft house. It also has been used a million times daily by two, if not three, children... and the chairs were falling apart. Literally. Pieces of the backs were coming off, the bottoms all had a spoke either missing or coming out every time you moved, and the table would wobble so bad, that one of my kids couldn't erase effectively while the other wanted to write. It was time for the really nice, really delicate table to go.

In comes sturdy 1950's table and chairs:

I know what you are thinking. 'She's crazy! How could she give up that beautiful set for these bargain basement old set?' Well, the simple truth is, my children were quickly ruining them. It would not have been a beautiful set much longer. So I figured, something indestructible would be helpful. Something cheap, so the baby could write on it, and I would not have a fit, would be even better. This was both. Each piece = $9. So it was $45 for the whole set...

Can't get much better than that. Plus, they are kinda cute, don't ya think? If you have to go old and indestructible, go funky. :)