Summer vacation is fast approaching...filled with its seemingly endless opportunities for house projects. We have a couple planned already, but yesterday a huge idea started developing.
Switch the living room with the dinning room.
It's not exactly a new idea, we have done this before on an as-needed basis, and my mom has actually mentioned a couple of times that we should consider it as a more permanent option. Our dining room usually hosts a couple dozen parties each year...whether it's Mac's friends pumpkin carving, family art exibits or even sociological statistics.
Yesterday I took a few minutes to really start thinking of the possibilities. It would be amazingly helpful to open up our dining room table to it's full fourteen person capacity on a regular basis...even with eight it is a tight fit in our dining room. At the same time, though, a fair amount of parties we host need space for everyone to gather in numerous ways. To just have a sitting area confined to the dining room area could be a little problematic. Until the really crazy DIY idea came to me.
Take out the banister dividing the rooms.
Then my heart started beating much faster when it occurred to me that I could make the new, massive dining room an homage to the backyard on Parenthood.
I sat Sean down last night to start mulling it over, since the prime project time of year starts in a few weeks.
He didn't say no.
