Dining Room Before and After

Here is a quick, super easy before and after project.  I've been thinking about painting the back of built-in corner hutch in the dining room for months now. It was such an easy project. I don't know why I waited so long to do it. 

Before:

After:

Here is what our dining room looked like when we first moved in.  

The green actually grew on me after a few weeks. After a month I couldn't stand it anymore.  We decided to go with Sherwin-Williams Wickerwork, which complimented the color I chose for the kitchen.  While painting, my mother-in-law kept joking that the color looked like baby poop. For the next week it's all I could think about when I walked in the room.  I was worried it was a horrible choice.  After it dried and the drastic change set in, I was more than happy with the choice.  I spend a lot of time in the dinning room. It's my favorite room.  I consider it my "mom cave". I like to do most of my reading, relaxing, alone time at the dining room table.  The room relaxes me.  

This was my dinning room after some paint, new prints and a new table.  

The curtains are audrey curtains from Pottery Barn.

I spent hours and hours endlessly searching the internet looking for the perfect curtains. When I saw these, I knew they were the ones.  We got the table from a local consignment shop (another MIL find!). I love everything about this table. Still, the room was missing something....  I spent months (probably a couple weeks, I like to exaggerate) looking for a sideboard to fill this space.  I found the perfect sideboard on craigslist for $50.  It took me two weeks to persuade my husband to find time in his crazy schedule to go pick it up.  I finally put a coat of poly on the sideboard this week, and it looks incredible. I love how a quick 20 minute project made it look so much better.

Although we still need to replace the ugly hardware...

This is our dining room now.

Eventually we plan to get a rug but I haven't found the perfect rug yet.  For now I'm loving the bare hardwood look.  We need to get rid of this ugly light fixture...

Luckily we have this fabulous one-of-a-kind Jesse Brooks chandelier we need to hang.

I swear that I can hang this myself.  My husband on the other hand is skeptical.  He thinks I will kill myself doing it alone.  My options are: 1. wait for him to have an afternoon off on the weekend so we can do it together (ha, like this will ever happen) 2. wait until his aunt or uncle can come over and help us since they know what they are doing or 3. pull up some youtube videos or diy blogs and figure it out alone.  I should go with option 2. but I'm very impatient so who knows!  All I know is I can't wait to see this hung up! 

My favorite room is going to be a crazy mess this weekend while I work on my next project..... more on that soon.
**UPDATE** I went with option 3 and figured it out myself... the chandelier is now hung and looks awesome, you can check it out here.

B&A Parter over at Savvy Souther Style, check it out!


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