Changing rooms: Living room to dining room

Today I made huge strides towards making the "living room" into the "dining room-library".  Yes, I'm still not really sure what to call it.  I do know that we have all used this space so much more since moving the table in there, so it has been a great change. 

It was this......

...and is now this:

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And today, in between working my day job and taking care of a sick child (and doing the things you do when you are home), I also could not  take a single straight picture!

I needed to get this part of the rooms done now since this is where the Christmas tree goes!  Let the decorating being!