Now that I've raved about our new coffee table, let's get back to the house tour. If you walk past the dining room on the left, you come up on our kitchen and eating area. Here's the view into our kitchen... By the way, I got those iron bar stools at HomeGoods (love that place!) before I moved to Dallas in 2007. They were $20 each and had a gold flower in the middle of the back. I painted the gold flower black and added some $10 cushions I found at World Market. Five years later, I'm still a big fan (especially knowing what I paid for them!). But I digress... If you keep walking past the kitchen you'll see our server and empty eat-in area. Pretty barren, huh? This is one of the problem areas in our home. Our old home only had room for a formal dining area, but now that we have extra space, we have nothing to fill it. Extra space is generally not a problem, but it is for me because we're renting. Since I know this won't be our forever ho