We have a "real" dining room...

Wow, our house has really changed a lot in the just over 3 years we've been here.  Some of the rooms more than others with furniture arrangements, and such.  The dining room is one of those examples.
Take a look at it when we first moved in.  Orange/red shag carpet and mustard yellow drapes.

when we first moved in

The carpet was one of those first things that had to go in almost all the rooms that had carpet.  We were lucky that there were hardwood floors that had never seen the light of day under the carpet.

after carpet removal and paint

We painted the walls a soft pink color and we had this little rug in there for a bit but it was too small.  It got moved to a bedroom.  I don't have photo with the other area rug we had for a while in there.  All I know is it was Jen's from college and it wasn't even close to matching or looking good in there.  The cat liked to claw at it though. My mom and I made drapes for the room.  They are gray with touch of pink/white that picks up the wall color perfectly.

with our new carpeting

Mom won an auction for a remnant piece of carpet and it happened to just fit perfect in our dining room.  I didn't mind the table so much or the chairs, but they just weren't "wow-ing" me... ever.  Then we bought this lovely set without any hesitation.  Prior to the cabinet we had a behind the toilet shelving unit to hold a few serving dishes.

I love the dining room now and will have to have some family over for dinner so we can show it off.  Cinder Ella approves of it too since she now sleeps on the one chair with her tail just barely visible.  She used to never go in the dining room. There are two more chairs that are in the corners of the room and a leaf that we can add so the table gets bigger.  It fits the space perfect and is exactly what we were looking for.  With the brownish color carpet and warm wood color the light fixture doesn't look as icky.  Still have to decide if and when I am going to get that painted or if I should convince Luke I would like a new one.  Thoughts on the light?