Green Gray Aqua Dining Room

The Dining Room is a room that we actually use more than twice a year.  So yet again, this is a space that we felt needed to be transformed into a more comfortable and enjoyable space for our family to have our evening dinners.  The room of course, was pretty sparse before; completely neutralized by the former owners.  My guess is that the realtor recommended the neutralization in order to have a better chance of appealing to the masses that toured the home while it was on the market for nearly two years...

Anyway, getting back to the rather boring dining room that only had one really cool element, the homes original and only crystal chandelier (a beautiful lighting fixture that we re-located into our foyer; where the scale fit into that smaller space a wee-bit better).  Other than that, we dared ourselves with paint and used a really funky paint by Sherwin Williams called Antiquity and another Paint that would act as a "tempering agent" called Adaptive Shade.  

To keep things really simple, we left the trim paint alone and resisted the urge to give ourselves any more to do!  However, we did do something a little unorthodox by extending the funky paint color to our ceiling.  Yeah, by doing that, the ceiling actually grew and feels a lot higher...(an experiment that fortunately worked!)

Of course, like every room in this house, nothing is 100% complete.  But rather, just the gesture of one wide brush stroke~

What We Did:

• Re-painted walls / ceiling
• Replace the light fixture
• Purchased and installed new window treatment
• Re-designed our IDM custom dining table, (i.e., raised the leg height to accommodate normal-sized chairs)
• Purchase new dining room chairs (re-located to breakfast nook)
• Design and build a new IDM credenza
• Create "focal" piece of IDM artwork
• Select and purchase a dining room rug (re-located to screen porch)

What We Still Need:

• (2) buffet lamps
• Table Top accessories for table and credenza
• One more wall hanging of some form or fashion (i.e., shelving, mirrors, complementing art piece, etc.)  (decided on a plate collage that picks up colors in the painting)
• To replace carpeting with either hardwood or a dark cork flooring......
• Current Flooring Solution (until we are $aved up) - Bamboo Rug (which gives us the wood look, minus the wood price!)

Always open to suggestions or feedback! 


January 2014 
Hello "Almost- Completed Dining Room"!  Here is an updated shot showing how our Dining Rooms looks now (with baby Hayes in the background).

I think it is safe to say that we have come a long way from where we started!  The changes that we have made may not be for everybody, but at least they reflect who we are!  These updates to our 1960s brick rancher are giving us the chance to add a healthy heap of 'chic' to the 'granny' decor!  

Until next time,

A + B