Dining Room Decorating

I love the farmhouse rustic style that is very popular right now, especially if you live in the country! Last Christmas, my present from the husband was a farmhouse table and I love its old charm. Almost any table runner looks great on it especially vintage inspired ones. We recently bought a hutch that was finished to match our dining table because I needed a space to hide all of my daughters' schoolwork because we homeschool and the dining room is also our schoolroom! I had these plastic totes laying out full of schoolwork that were somewhat functional but ugly and out of place. Here is a picture of the new hutch!

I originally had a wall of pictures from my husbands and I's travels but had to remove some to put the new hutch in and the pictures that were left didn't quiet match the look of the dining room anymore so I took them down and put them elsewhere. (Here is what it looked like at first...)

To fill some of the empty space I used a rustic wood frame from that I found for a few bucks at an antique store, that originally had a paper picture in it that wasn't very pretty, and replaced that with a quilted table topper I made to fit the frame. I used the scrappy strawberry block from Lori Holt's Farm Girl Vintage book and filled in the rest of the space with a cream fabric. I free motioned quilted vines on the strawberry topper to go with the strawberry motif. 

I love the strawberry, although I originally thought of making an apple block or a barn block for this frame, but the strawberry worked great. 

Here is what the dining room looks like now. 

Happy Fall Ya'll! Pumpkins and apples galore!