Home Tour Tuesday: Dining Room

 

Time to tour the dining room!

 

This room has come a long way since we moved in. These are before and afters with the listing photos taken shortly before we moved in:

 

 

Since we moved in, we have painted, added a built in china cabinet, added a chair rail and applied molding, installed a new light fixture, reupholstered the dining room chairs, upgraded our furniture, and of course had the new floors installed.

 

We had a hand-me-down freestanding corner china cabinet that was pretty beat up, so we decided to make it into a built-in. Joey mounted it to the wall, added trim and molding, installed new hardware, and painted it. I love the way it turned out!

 

 

The only other dining room furniture we had when we moved in was a small dining set with 6 chairs that we bought off of Craigslist when we moved into our first house in 2008. The upholstry on the chairs was looking pretty stained and dingy, so I reupholsted them with some fun new fabic following this tutorial.  

 

So this is what it looked like shortly after we moved in.

 

We soon purchased a buffett cabinet, a gorgeous wool rug to go under the table, and then recently, a new farmhouse dining table and bench.

I would eventually like to buy some new dining chairs, and I need to have my mother-in-law sew a table runner that actually fits out huge new table, but other than that, I feel like this room is complete!

 

Look out for the Kitchen Edition of Home Tour Tuesday next. The kitchen is probably the room that has had the most changes, but it is also the room that has the most to go!