Dining Room: Before & After

We finally got another room unpacked and set up enough to actually take photos. Yay!

BEFORE: (with seller's furniture)







AFTER: (paint color is SW Sassy Green)








In this room, we painted, replaced the light fixture to a more modern brushed nickel fixture and let all that light in with some simple white sheers. The dining room has ended up with a mismatch of furniture that doesn't exactly match. Our table and chairs are probably about 6 years old. I would LOVE to get a new set, but that won't be in the budget for a long time. So, in the meantime, I will likely reupholster the chair seats in a fun black & white fabric. We purchased the island cabinet (second photo) a few years back at the Mill Store because we were in desperate need of more kitchen storage at the condo. We wanted to put it in the kitchen in the new house too, but sadly it does not fit. So, it was moved to it's current location in the dining room. It is holding our over sized cookie sheets and pizzas pans that won't fit in our kitchen cabinets as well as our good silverware, place mats and napkins. We might put some of our small kitchen appliances in there too since there is so much extra space in there. Our Kingston tall (not pictured) and low cabinet (first photo) also made it into the dining room as we really don't know where else to put them. The low cabinet is where we store all of our Mikasa drink ware (wine glasses, martini glasses, champagne flutes, ice buckets...etc). The tall cabinet is where we store our large serving pieces. Eventually, we will put some back and white photography up on the walls and hang our "W". I also need to find some clips to keep my curtains open.

If you are wondering, the dining room is just to the right when you walk in through the front door. In the second photo, you can see the back hallway (paint color is SW Blonde) and the doorway is to our half bath with laundry. Just to the right of the bathroom is the door to the garage.