Before and After: Dining Room

Chris and I like working on different home improvement projects so we wanted to share one of the rooms we have finished.

The Dining Room. Below is a pic from the brochure from the home owners before us. The dining room was carpeted and painted with a faux gold sponging effect. Yikes! So we decided to change a few things. OK everything! We feel pretty good considering the only thing we paid someone else to finish was the flooring.

Below is a picture of the dining room after we closed on the house. The only difference is that we removed the carpet and replaced it with a darker/auburn hardwood. Looks better already.

Then we decided to pull off the existing wood trim and dated chandelier. We replaced all the wood trim (window casing, crown, chair rail, and baseboard) with a wider profile (in white), replaced the chandelier, light switches, outlet switches, painted the ceiling/walls, and added shadowboxes (faux wainscoting). Also, there were 5 outlets in that one room so Chris took 2 of them out and I learned how to patch up holes in drywall. So far I have been doing all the painting and Chris has been doing all of the carpentry stuff. And we are really enjoying working together. We love it and can't wait until we can find the right curtains and fill it with a dining room table :)

We have also finished Grant's room and the Living Room. So I'll post those pics sometime next week.