One of a Kind Rustic Dining Room Table

Finding a townhouse with a dining room in Federal Hill is nearly impossible.  We were lucky enough to purchase a home with a separate dining room and knew we had to make the best of our space.  We chose the dining room as our first room to decorate in our house.  We are decorating one room a year to fully devote ourselves to each room.

Cooking is the most important and enjoyable part of our day.  After a long day of work, we love coming home and cooking together.  We pay careful attention to the food we put on our plates.  We invest the time and money to buy locally and advocate it to those that have the means to do the same.  In addition to purchasing produce locally, we make sure that our meat comes from grass-fed cows and free-range chickens.  In the theme we employ for our farm to table meals, we thought it best to create a rustic dining room to bring the outdoors in.

As we waited and picked out the wood for our dining room table and bench, we started on our bar by going to a local architectural salvage store, Housewerks, in Baltimore.  The first item we purchased was the large Zyklon Discoids box.  After doing some research, we learned that these cyanide bottles were used by the US Public Health Service Corp to fumigate bed bugs on naval ships.



Some of the other boxes include a box from Bethlehem Steel and BPS paints.  To bring out the color and quality of the woods for the boxes, we waxed the wood and applied leather protector to the strap of the BPS paints box.  Since we mostly drink wine and beer, we decided to decorate the bar with all things wine.  While our cork jug is lacking in corks, we hope to fill it more and more with the dinner parties we will host now that we have a dining room table!

Our table was made in Cleveland by Paul White.  On one of our trips to Cleveland to visit family, we ended up walking into his workshop and saw a gorgeous table he had made.  Once we purchased our house, the first thing we did was contact Paul to have him make us a table.  The process involved picking out the wood slabs, deciding what parts of the wood we wanted and determining the best size for the table.  After several months of waiting, we finally received our table this past weekend!  Now we must decide on our first meal to make to enjoy our new space.