When my grandmother past we had the difficult job of going through her things and having a garage sale. Prior to the sale, my mom, along with her siblings went through the house to see what they wanted as mementos. To our dismay, mom insisted that we take the old, formica, yellow dining room set. It had four chairs that were covered in matching yellow vinyl. I didn’t want the set but we wanted to make mom happy so I figured I could just store it in the attic until she forgot about it. That as my plan anyway until mom said she couldn’t wait to see her grandchildren sitting around the table like she did as a kid. She said that it was practically indestructible and nothing stained it. It was perfect for kids. Now I was going to be stuck trying to incorporate it into my decor and I didn’t even like yellow. When we got home with the set I put it in the garage until I could figure something out. A friend of mine works for a design firm downtown so I called her to tell her about it and ask for her help. She stopped a few days later to take a look at it and when I showed her she got very excited. She said that this type of table set was very hard to find and especially in such good condition. She immediately started talking about ideas of what we could do to make it work in my kitchen nook. She said we could make it look like an old diner and it would be really cute. I am sure glad I have a friend who can see the possibilities because I sure can’t.