My Dining Room

Do you ever roam aimlessly from one room to the next in your house starting projects and leaving a wake of half completed rooms in the process?

 

This is my problem.  I constantly do this.  But, in a house that needs EVERYTHING one thing flows to the next and the next and nothing ever seems to get completed.

 

Recently I started working in my dining room (again), that then lead me to the living room, swapping bedrooms around and now a home office.   Funny how painting one little room created such havoc.

 

This is how our dining room looked when we first moved in. 

 

 

I painted over this color right away and removed the carpet expecting to find a matching hardwood floor to the living room.

 

WRONG!

 

Well, sorta wrong.  The floor was under there but first I needed to remove the very old and smelly black padding that was glued to the floor to get to it.

 

Anyway, the floor is a whole 'nother post.

 

My first paint color choice for this room was an epic fail.  It took me several months to find what direction I wanted to go in there.  I kept trying for blues and grays but realized, they do not work for me.  I love them, just not in this house.

 

So the dining room sat.

 

And sat.

 

And sat.

 

For a year.

 

Empty.

 

All the while I had been collecting things here or there when I spotted a good deal or saw something I liked.

 

I found these chairs along the way.

 

 

And this buffet.

 

 

So after a year of the dining room being nothing more than a great room to practice your Ninja moves without worry of bumping into anything... I got started.

 

I painted, I cleaned, I got rid of crap I dropped in the room because I just didn't know what to do with it, but... then I found something I can't just get rid of... my husband! 

 

We have a very large computer armoire that sits in the dining room that he spends hours at working or doing homework for his Master's Degree.

 

That's a dilemma.

 

I needed to find somewhere else to stick him.

 

So, that is how we come to swapping bedrooms and working on a home office. 

 

All of that because I wanted to paint the dining room and make it into a useful space.

 

So, I still can't complete the dining room until I evict my tenant in the corner.  But, today the dining room is looking something like this...