Hello, everyone! I'm Ruth, visiting from A House in Holland. I enjoy stopping by Remodelaholic every Saturday to share budget-friendly decor tips from around blogland. This month, the focus is on dining rooms, and today I'm going to show you some great ideas for dining room furniture updates you can do yourself.

{Young House Love}

Before I do, though, I just want to take a minute to remind you about the upcoming Dining Room Linkup. On the last Saturday of the month (June 30th), Cassity and I invite you to linkup any of your recent projects that involve the dining room. If you've updated your decor, redone your floors, hung new curtains, reorganized your china cabinet, made a centerpiece, or done anything else to your dining room, get ready to link a blog post about it. I'll feature some of the outstanding projects the following Saturday.

Now, back to dining room furniture. When it comes to furnishing a dining room, it's hard to get by without a table and chairs. Extra storage in the form of a hutch, sideboard, or some other cupboard is nice, too. Sounds simple, right? Right, unless you've ever tried to shopping for those items. A brand-spankin' new dining room set can cost thousands of dollars. Ouch! Luckily, there are bloggers out there who have found ways to make classy updates to the furniture they already had or acquired second-hand. Take a look at the following DIYupdates.

First up is one from our very own Cassity, right here at Remodelaholic. Remember when she transformed this ugly china hutch with paint and new cabinet doors?

At Crafty Scrappy Happy, a ho-hum table got a fresh coat of paint and more personality with vinyl lettering.

I absolutely love what White Place Flea Market did to turn a mish-mash of garage sale chairs into a gorgeous dining room set.

This table from I {Heart} Naptime got a completely new look with the addition of stripes on the tabletop.

Craftaholics Anonymous added bright upholstery to dining room chairs for a fun update, and has a great tutorial so you can do the same.

Speaking of tutorials, there's a really good one for painting and distressing dining room furniture at Clover Lane. So classy!

Have fun with your own dining room projects, this week. I'll be back next Saturday to share more dining room ideas from around the web.

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Hey there, I am Cassity! Nice to virtually meet you. My casa es su ... entertainment!

Our blog is about DIY in its finest.  We are obsessed with it and so are you, so while we're working and have nothing to show you of our own projects, we show off yours.

About us more specifically:

I love almost every creative avenue and like to have projects to keep me busy. When it comes to remodeling we do it on a tight budget. Try at tops $5,000 for our entire house. 

Our motto is reduce, reuse, recycle, re-purpose, remodel (try saying that 5 times fast)! We try to use old things in creative ways and reuse our old building supplies in other projects.

I am a wife and mother first and foremost. My husband is a dream. He can do anything, and is cheerful about most anything I ask. He is a landscape architect, so we love to design together!

I am an Interior Designer, according to my bachelor's degree. I do not work in the field though. I help friends and fix up our houses, but that is all for now. The most important thing to me, is my family and I choose to stay at home. Luckily, we have been blessed with the abilities to use our resources wisely and I can stay home!

I love projects!! I LOVE PROJECTS! Let me shout it from the mountain tops! Can I get an amen?

Projects help to keep me fulfilled as a stay at home mom. I try to accomplish one thing a day. It could be put the junk away off the floor in my bedroom, or it could be rip out a wall I don't like.... you never know, you will just have to watch a see.