Hope #3 - Dining with ease, please!

Hope #3 - A comfortably decorated dining room where my family can sit together and share their day.

This is my dining room in its previous state:

No that is not my dining room furniture. That is the previous owners furniture. She's one of those, "I don't want to move my furniture to paint behind it, so I'll just paint around it" kinda people. The hutch you see in the corner is hiding a second shade of green paint.




This is my dining room table. Sorry for the bad picture quality. It was taken by someone else. I haven't unpacked my camera yet. I've already stripped, conditioned and stained it. I just have one or two more coats of stain to put on it and some polyurethane and it will be complete!


I'm dedicating my dining room as project number one. I chose it because it doesn't need much done. Here is the list:

1. Buy beadboard to create something like this on back wall:


I love beadboard and love how high they made the beadboard go here. Its decorative and functional all at the same time! I didn't want to put it around the whole dining room because I don't want the room to be swallowed in beadboard, but I'm still trying to figure out how I would make it look finished without having to take it all the way around. I love the idea of being able to lean pictures on the ledge like a shelf.

2. Paint.

The beadboard will be a creamy white. I'm thinking I want the rest of the room this:

It looks almost like the top color in the original room, but its actually less pink than the one in the original. Paint in pictures can look totally different than they can in person.

The previous owner absolutely loved green. Almost every room is painted some shade of green. Even the shades on the light fixture in the kitchen and dining room are green.

3. Find dining room chairs. I need at least 6 chairs, if not 8. I don't want them to match. I would love to find 4 of the same and 2 matching chairs for the ends. If I could recover the fabric on the chairs to match it would tie all the chairs together. So I'm on the hunt for some solid wood chairs for not a lot of money.

4. Find or build a long skinny sideboard table kind of like this, but a little more simple.



5. Add some green accessories, like home grown photos!

6. Add a rug?

Light, airy and refreshing.....