In searching for “ideas for small dining room” (because we have a small dining room) I found this awesome bookshelf on bhg.com – where or where is it from?!  They don’t cite a source, unfortunately.

I love it because:

• It’s painted white, yay painted wood!
• It’s got open areas for nice stuff and doors for hiding storage stuff (you can never have enough storage)
• No glass doors to open/close to get to the nice stuff.
• Bonus shelf on TOP!

No one ACTUALLY eats in this room.

I also love the rug, but I’m still debating whether we’re too messy for a rug right under our eating table.  I think we might be too messy for it.  We’ve already proven incapable of keeping placemats and tablecloths clean, I doubt a rug is going to fare much better.