House Tour: Dining Room

We don’t live near our extended family and we have lots of out-of-town friends that come for visits, so we’re one of those rare families that use our dining room a lot (our kitchen eat-in area is pretty small)! Because of that, the dining room ended up being one of the first rooms we renovated after moving into our home. To say that it was a little bit dated was a bit of an understatement. There was wimpy crown molding and a small chair rail with textured faux finish stripes on the top (and an obviously discolored rectangle from a piece of art that previously hung there) along with heavy, dated drapes on the windows:

I had big plans for that wall so I removed the chair rail, patched the walls in those spots, and then skim coated and sanded the entire room (worst job ever!) to get rid of the texture from the faux finished stripes. Then I painted the walls a tweaked version of Sherwin Williams Keystone Gray (exact formula at the bottom of this post), had new crown molding installed and was finally ready to decorate! We added a new light fixture and already had the drapes, table, and chairs from our old house – they ended up working beautifully in our new space:

Those pics are from my recent summer home tour by the way – you can check out my full tour including a bunch of other rooms in our house {here}!

My favorite feature of the room is the plate wall – for some reason I’ve always wanted to have one and this room had the perfect spot for it! I wrote a whole post about creating my plate wall, including the specifics on how I hung them up – you can find that {here}