How our Dining Room has Progressed

I thought it would be fun to take a look back at how much our dining room has changed over the last 3 years. The dining room wasn’t really a major focus at first, other than painting it right away from yellow

to a nice medium grey – Woodsmoke by: Glidden – paired with the bold white trim it was enough to get me by for the time being.

*Please disregard these first photos, they are cell phone shots, pre-blogging days :)*

Once we were settled in, and the last box was unpacked, it was time to put my stamp on our first house. So my first project, and one of the very first things I ever blogged about was adding some horizontal stripes in the dining room. I still laugh at the quality of the photos and the post in itself, but it’s great encouragement to see how far I’ve come, and we all had to start somewhere, RIGHT?!!

Oh my word there is so much to point out in the photo above that makes me cringe, but you can even see the tops of the chairs pre-paint job! Then I brought my attention into the dining room for a bit, I believe the next thing I did was get a new lamp for the buffet, and that was all the motivation I needed.

Next up, it was time to bring in some white {that I LOVE}, and some new end chairs for the dining room table.

Things were starting to take shape by this last photo, or at least you can see progress in my executing a game plan. Next up, I painted the playroom door with chalkboard paint, and this the obsession began!

Before:

After:

We also added chair rail around the whole room. I held off on painting the bottom half white, until we got the rest of the materials to do the picture frame moldings on the bottom half, but guess what, that still hasn’t happened 😛

It stayed like this for awhile too, which is almost exactly how we have had it up until now. With the exception of changing up the chalkboard door, one day I got the hair across my butt to just paint underneath the chair rail white, and even though we still don’t have the picture frame molding, the architectural detail it gave the room was just what it needed. You first get a glimpse of it in some holiday posts:

And that brings you up to date on how our Dining Room has progressed. If you caught my post last week, then you know we have recently sold our original dining room table, and made our own farmhouse table! I cannot wait to share it with you, and all of the details. I finished the final slip cover for the chairs on monday, and just have some staining left for the bench that is going on the other side. Don’t worry we kept the wicker chairs and those are on the end of our new table, which I’m hoping to have up on the blog within the week. I figured before I show off our new set, it would be fun to take a look back at how things have progressed, and this dining room has really taken shape. I hope you have enjoyed the look back, and are encouraged that even if you can’t make big changes all at once, little changes over time are still worth the effort, and can change a room!

Comments

Lynn says

07/08/2016 at 10:05 am

Love those wicker chairs, are they from IKEA???
- Bre says
  
  07/13/2016 at 9:43 pm
  
  Yes they are from Ikea 🙂
Jeanne says

12/08/2014 at 10:06 am

Your fabric on the drapes is beautiful!!!!
Megan says

11/22/2014 at 7:03 pm

Where did you get your wicker chairs from? I love this dining room!
Amy St. Louis says

09/18/2014 at 2:42 pm

Hi Bre,
New to the blog. Love everything. Can you tell me where the drapes in your dining room come from? Thank you. Amy
Kris Vogelsang says

02/05/2014 at 6:43 am

What a great transformation! I love that you show how it was done over time, like the rest of us in the ‘real’ world, and can’t afford to do it all at once. I’m currenty in the process if doing my dining/living room too-it all started with changing the chandelier! Can’t wait to see your new table.