When the Dining Room was in the Other Room

This is how it looked when we had the dining room at the front of the house in the "original" formal living room.  It's the room that now has the bay window, window seat addition and the one we now use as our family room/den area.  And that's a VERY pregnant me in November 2007, just a couple of weeks before giving birth to our first son.  You can see a little of how it felt to use that room as the dining room.  It gave it a more private feel, and thus a more formal feel.  You can see the kitchen in the background, through the doorway.  We loved the way this room looked, but just didn't use it very often because we treated it more like a special occasion room.  I had even spent hours and hours doing a venetian plaster technique on the walls with this beautiful tuscan orange color.  Yes, I know... not necessarily everyone's taste.  But I loved it.  It was a very warm room.