Project Condo: A Dining Set, Paper Flowers and Table Styling

Month of April has brought some great progress to my living conditions at the condo. In my last Project Condo post, I was sharing some of the things I learned during my first couple of weeks at my unit. I ended up not buying the furniture that I enumerated in this post because of budget constraints, and so I took a different approach to purchasing big functional pieces and decorating my home. 

I recently bought a sturdy 2-seater dining set made of malaysian rubber wood and it has been my place for work and eating. I love that it's made of dark wood, although I am contemplating on having it painted in white. The table is square, sized 30x30 inches and I've been looking for one exactly like it. I knew my space could not afford fitting a bigger table, so I jumped at the opportunity to buy this set.  I still plan to add a couple of eames-inspired DSW chairs so that I can use them as accent chairs to this rather dull set up, but I tried to look for them at Mandaue foam, Dimensione and Dwell and they were out of stock. Oh well, in time. :)

Lately, I've been channeling some of my creative juices with styling my new dining area. I chanced upon a utility scale placemat from the Bleach Store in Greenbelt 5 and bought it immediately. Then made a bunch of paper flowers to add some color and softness to the table. Since I haven't done my plant/flower shopping from my mother's garden yet, I made these paper flowers using yellow, black and white crepe paper. 

Because of the placemat, the table had a sort of industrial vibe to it and the grey background and yellow flowers juxtapose themselves against the dark wood. 

With the end of April came in the start of a brand new month, and I suddenly felt tired of the table setting above. It seemed too dark and too warm, so I made another bunch of flowers with greens, violets and blues. For the blue flower, I used white crepe paper and colored its edges with watercolor. Oh the thrill of the blue bleeding into white sent my heart giggling! I changed my gray placemat with a white and black kitchen towel which served the same placemat purpose on my table and it gave a sort of shabby chic feel to the whole setting.

What do you think about these two themes? Are you into the whole industrial movement, or are you more of a shabby chic kind? :)