My Dining Room: Before & After

Monday, February 22, 2010

Back in November my dining room that is an eat in kitchen style and the size of a small breakfast nook lacked serious style. So I created out a plan to tackle the room and create a space that my family would be able to enjoy on Saturday mornings but be pretty enough for entertaining friends on Saturday night. Last weekend we finally finished laying our new faux wood floors in our dining room and kitchen and I began putting our dining room back together. I'm so thrilled to having my living room back; we literally parked our entire dining room in the living room during the 'demo period.'


Let's take a trip down memory lane, here's my dining room before.


When Mr. CLH removed the outdated light fixture with found this 'present'


Tearing up the awfull craked and stained tile flooring


Removing the thinset from the lino - yup this was underneath the tile!


Now I love my dining room, its so pretty to me now. I so can't wait to get started on redoing our 1980's kitchen. I hope you like the dining room after as much as my family does! As I said before my dining room is very small so it makes taking pictures interesting.

This is how our dining room looks when you enter the room from our living room


This is the view from the kitchen


The blue mirror and buffet make the perfect pair - love those fresh flowers!




I fell in love with this fabric a few months ago, and decied to add it to the bottom of my Ikea curtains. The fabric colors tie-in perfectly to the rest of the diningroom and will compliment the kitchen when its done too.


Here's a better view of our new floors, a big improvemnt over our tiles! In addittion to laying our new floors, we also added moudling to our baseboards making them much taller and prettier.


I'm a happy camper! I can't wait to hear your thoughts.

35 comments:

  1. OOOOO MYYY Goddd! It looks fab-u-lous! Great job. It's very chic now! The light fixture just makes the room.

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  2. When I saw the post title I started scrolling down to the pictures like a mad woman!

    I love it! I'm actually going for a dark table/ white chair look in my room... I hope it can look half as good as it does here! The fabric on the curtains was the perfect extra touch. You live up to your name yet again :).

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  3. WOW! It's stunning! Your new floors are lovely, love the blue mirror + buffet, and am jealous that you have fresh flowers to look at... I'm staring at snow! :) Nicely done!

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  4. WOW!! You did an ah-mazing job!It's clean yet colorful, modern yet classic and luxurious. You did an incredible job!

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  5. It looks wonderful! The whole room is just pulled together so well - great job!

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  6. Just beautiful! Many happy meals in your new dining room.

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  7. Jen - After I painted the mirror I was nervous, and then I hung it over of the white buffet, and breathed a sign of relief!

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  8. This is amazing. Everything looks wonderful!

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  9. Wow!! This room is amazing! Love that you added fabric to the curtains ~ very pretty! Are those IKEA chairs? Everything looks fabulous! :)

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  10. Oh my! This is beautiful! What a HUGAMUNGOUS differce.

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  11. It looks great! Love the simple, fresh color scheme. And the FLOORS! Love :)

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  12. It is perfect! Did you just stain your existing table? I can't remember reading about it...and isn't that the fabric we all recommended to Meg for her bedroom curtains? I love what you've done, and your moldings looks great beefed up. I want to see what you did exactly!

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  13. This looks sooooo soo sooooo fantastic! And the colors are so perfect together!!

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  14. Sara - I can't remember if I've seen Meg's custain recommendation? I've been eyeing that fabric for months, ever since I picked up my fabric for my lving room pillows. I love that fabric and it would look amazing as full legnth curtains!

    I'll will sahre the details soon :)

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  15. Cozy! The floors are a HUGE improvement and I love the lighting you picked out. And that blue mirror! Love.

    Very warm space.

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  16. What an amazing transformation! I love everything but if I had to pick what I loved the most it would be the light fixture or how you embellished the curtains. Or maybe the floor. It came together beautifully!

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  17. You definitely have a chic dining room now! Great job on the floors and painting the mirror blue was brilliant. Love it all!!

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  18. GREAT JOB! I love your chairs with that dark table, and the extra fabric added some pizzaz to curtains. Love the dark floors, too--I wish i could've gone that route. Love your updated kitchen.

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  19. Oh wow, this looks AMAZING! It is so very stylish and cozy. I love everything about it. You should send this in to Better After! Great job!!!

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  20. I just love it! You did a fantastic job and the outcome is just amazing! Great work, the chairs and table really go well - and I love the white and the floors . . . just fabulous.

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  21. Oh my gosh! I didn't even notice the fabric! It looks fabulous!!

    I'd love to see more photos of the curtains if you ever get a chance! How does the fabric look in real life?

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  22. Thanks Ladies! Meg, I'll take more pics this weekend - it was a sunless day, so it was so hard to take pics!

    The fabric is very pretty, an off white, and the blue is more of a turquise blue, and the yellow more golden rod yellow (but not as bright) I also loved the greay version of the fabric - but thought it would be too dark in the room

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  23. Lovely Little Nest - Yes those are Ikea chairs, love them! I'm so gald the chair covers are washable :)

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  24. Looks amazing!! I have that table in my kitchen - still in the original stain - country-ish. It was given to me by my parents when they got new stuff. My plan is to stain or paint it dark, like how you did. What did you use??

    Good work!

    www.ChasingDavies.blogspot.com

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  25. I love it! Everything looks so well balanced. You guys did an amazing transformation!

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  26. UMM we need to hook you up with your own show. Lets get in touch with HGTV! A great job.....

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  27. WOW!!! Standing ovation for you! This is lovely. I'm sure the hubby is proud.

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  28. Oh my! I can't believe I missed this! You did a GREAT job on this room! Well, you and your husband did a great job!

    Your package is on its way. Sorry for the delay.

    Have a great night!

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  29. You did a FABULOUS job!!! It looks inviting and elegant, and I love how you customized your ikea curtains. You've left me feeling inspired!! :)

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  30. Your dining room is absolutely perfect! Love it times a billion!! Really love the buffet with the mirror...feels so light and chic. Floor is soooooo much better! Great job!!

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  31. Love your dining room! It looks awesome! You are making me think about a much needed redo of my dining "area" (it's not a whole room)

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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts! Best, Katrina

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