Dining Room: House Tour
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I had big plans for that wall so I removed the chair rail, patched the walls in those spots, and then skim coated and sanded the entire room (worst job ever!) to get rid of the texture from the faux finished stripes. Then I painted the walls a tweaked version of Sherwin Williams Keystone Gray (exact formula at the bottom of this post), had new crown molding installed and was finally ready to decorate! We added a new light fixture and already had the drapes, table, and chairs from our old house – they ended up working beautifully in our new space:
Those pics are from my recent summer home tour by the way – you can look at my full tour including a bunch of other rooms in our house {here}!The sequence matters: decide the footprint, then the finish, then the accessories. The preferred feature of the room is the plate wall – for some reason The household has always wanted to have one and this room had the perfect spot for it! I wrote a whole post about creating my plate wall, including the specifics on how I hung them up – you can find that {here}
A strong choice is a slightly eclectic look and one way to get that in a dining room is to mix two different types of chairs – in this case, a pair of upholstered wingback chairs with more casual ladder back chairs – you can get more approaches for how to mix and match your dining room chairs in {this post}.
One of the preferred details of our 60+ year old home is the built-in china cabinet in our dining room. To make our china and crystal stand out and add some warmth, I lined the back wall of our china cabinet with a faux wood Pergo (you can get the details of that DIY project {here}).
Our dining room is one of the preferred spaces to decorate for the holidays and change up for the seasons, such as Easter (you can see more of my Easter table {here}),
spring (see the full spring tour of my dining room {here}),
and Christmas (look at the rest of my 2016 Christmas home tour {here}):
This room as stayed pretty much as-is for the seven years the household has lived here except for a recent swap-out of our chandelier. Once we renovated our kitchen (you can see that {here}) we removed the doors between the two rooms and I wanted a light fixture that coordinated a bit better. I went with {this wood bead chandelier} and love it!
(includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here})Paint color & Drapes: A slightly tweaked version of Sherwin-Williams Keystone Gray (exact formula below) | Drapes were custom made years ago from a fabric that has since been discontinuedFurniture, Lighting, & Art: Table – Drexel Heritage (no longer sold) | upholstered end chairs – no longer sold ({this wingback chair} has a very similar look) | side chairs – HomeGoods ({these chairs} in the Weathered Gray are similar) | chandelier – no longer available | art pieces flanking china cabinet – no longer sold Table Decor: Striped table runner – made with {this fabric} (DIY tutorial {here}) | Buffalo check table runner – made with local fabric but {this one} is very similar | white dinnerware | silverware | glass goblets – no longer available | rattan chargers – thrifted; {these chargers} are similar | glass hurricane vases (they're my fave!!) – size medium | plate wall plates – {these} and {these} |wood bowl used as centerpiece – no longer available
Tweaked version of Sherwin Williams Keystone Gray
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