Unless we were ever to buy new furniture for the dining room or do an addition to expand the size of the room, it is pretty much complete! We used our existing furniture from the old house and just barely squeezed it into the extremely small space (approximately 9 1/2 by 1o feet). So aside from the fact that it seems slightly cramped, I love how this room turned out. Here’s a glimpse of what we started with. The lavender walls would be lovely for a little girl’s room, but not quite ideal for my dining room.
The changes to the dining room were fairly basic – paint, ceiling molding, and flooring. We ran the same new dark wood plank laminate throughout the entire house. Here’s the space after these updates.
My favorite thing about this room is the display of my great grandmother’s dishes on our hutch. She had collected several sets of china, and when she passed away, my grandmother boxed up a set for each of her three great grandchildren. My set sat boxed for years in the garage of our old house since it didn’t really match the décor there. So I was excited to plan the new dining room around these dishes so that they could be displayed. It is not exactly the plain white dish display that you see in many farmhouse dining rooms, but I love that these dishes are sentimentally unique, and I think that the muted pop of pink is perfect for this space.
The small console table to the right of the window is also a vintage piece with some family history. It was from the first house that my parents lived in after they got married in 1975. Over the years, it moved along with them, and as a child I used it in my bedroom as a stand for my electric keyboard. And then it moved along with me to college and my first apartment, where I used it as a TV stand. When I moved into our old house (my first house), it got painted black (it was originally a medium-wood tone) to match my home office décor. And then when it moved here to the Village, I kept it black, but simply distressed it a bit to match our existing dining room furniture.
So that is the current state of our dining room. I hope to swap out the ceiling fan for a more dining-room-suited light fixture at some point, but that is most likely the only imminent change to come.
Products used:
- Wall Paint – Revere Pewter by Benjamin Moore
- Trim Paint – Simply White by Benjamin Moore
- Flooring – Home Decorators Collection Laminate in Dark Hickory from Home Depot (I think this color may be discontinued now, but here’s a link to a similar shade)