Rug Turned Tapestry

Our house has one of those formal dining rooms right off of the entryway.  We used to have a formal set of furniture in there, but found that we just never used that room.  Even when we had guests over, we always ate in the breakfast nook area or in the living room.  We just aren't a very formal family, we would much rather be really laid back!  So, we decided we would turn the space into something else.  Out went the old furniture and in came the new!  We raised the light fixture up, got 2 new bookcases and put an old entryway table in between.  We also put an old spare chair we had in the room for right now, but that will soon be out the door as well, and in it's place will be a new digital baby grand piano!!!  I am SO excited for that!!! Anyway, I was left with a very tall and skinny bare spot on the wall in between the two bookcases and above the table.  I tried making a series of 8 paintings and hanging them in two columns of 4, I got a tall mirror and tried hanging it there, but non of it seemed quite right.  Eventually I settled on a solution...a runner...yes, an old rug runner that we had gotten for free with an area rug we purchased from Macy's a while back.  We never had use for the runner, so it had just been sitting in storage.  I bought a 2 inch curtain rod from Lowes and wrapped the rug around the rod, sewing it together in the back to keep the heavy material from just slipping right off the rod.  Now, it looks like a wall tapestry, right?  I don't know how many people I am fooling with that thought, but I think it works quite well  :)