Kendall Charcoal in our Dining Room

I hope you all have had a lovely weekend. When we first started making over this room I knew I wanted to wallpaper the upper half of the walls but I couldn't find anything that was quite right so I just quickly painted the walls a light color so at least they has something. (You can see lighter color here). I actually ended up really loving the light color (Gray Owl at 75%) so I didn't mind it being up for a while. In fact if you are looking for a light gray with a bluish undertone I would highly recommend it. It's one of my favorite colors and I would use it again in a heartbeat.

After hunting for a year and a half now I still haven't quite found what I want for wallpaper in this room. (I have for other rooms, if you look under the "Our Home" tab up top you can see we've wallpapered the girls room, the playroom and two bathrooms and also the bedroom in NH). So, this past week I decided to at least finally paint the walls a darker color to give it a little more of a bold look. I used Kendall Charcoal by Benjamin Moore which has always been one of my favorites colors.  I used their Aura line in a matte finish. We used this same color in our master bedroom quite a few years ago at our last house and then in Jason's home office. And we also have painted a couple pieces of furniture with it.

Once I painted the walls I took some of our black and white images from some other rooms and used them in here to go with the dark walls. However, about an hour after I took these pictures I ended up changing things around. Although I love how they look against the dark walls I didn't really like how they looked with out furniture. It felt like the styles competed too much with each other. I played around with it some more though and got rid of all the black and white images and brought in an oil painting and a new sign and now I think I like it much better.  I'll try to take some photos in the next week or so once I finish tweaking it and share them. For now though you can at least see the darker walls!

Source List 

Wall Color - Kendall Charcoal by Benjamin Moore in Matte Finish

Trim Color - Simply White by Benjamin Moore in Semi-gloss Finish

Beadboard Wallpaper - Allen and Roth from Lowe's

Chandelier - Savvy in Williamsburg, VA

Farmhouse Table - I made it using this plan from Ana White's site. Stained with Rustoleum's Weathered Gray and Minwax's Provincial

End Chairs and Side Chairs - World Market

Tufted Bench - Home Goods

Side Chairs next to Sideboard - Joss and Main

Large Black and White Tree Picture - Pottery Barn about 12 years ago

Mirror - Restoration Hardware (six or seven years ago but I think they still sell it)

Drapery Panels - IKEA Ritva Panels 

Drapery Rods - Lowe's

Sideboard - The Velvet Shoestring (consignment shop - then painted with AS's French Linen chalk paint from Lady Butterbug)

Urn on Sideboard - from a shop I worked at years ago

Black and White Frame - Maybe Hobby Lobby? Not sure, have had it for forever

Pitcher with Flowers on Sideboard - Target

Dinnerware - Mikasa, French Countryside Collection

Chargers - Pottery Barn (seven years ago) 

Urn on Table - from Seasons in Williamsburg on clearance about six years ago

Flowers - Trader Joe's

Rolling Cart - I made it. You can find our tutorial here. And we stained it with: Rustoleum's Weathered Gray and Minwax's Provincial

Painting on top of Rolling Cart - Savvy in Williamsburg (about six years ago)

Pitcher on top of Rolling Cart - gift from Spring Mill, Indiana

Antlers - World Market

Items on Top Shelf of Rolling Cart -

            cup holder/drying rack - World Market

            mugs on the cup holder  - Mikasa, French Countryside Collection

            pitcher - JoAnn Fabric's

            marble topped cake stand - World Market

            Urn - Seasons in Williamsburg years ago on clearance

Items on Middle Shelf of Rolling Cart - 

            Serving Bowl - was a wedding gift

            basket - Joss and Main

            dishes - Pottery Barn (Emma Collection - was a wedding gift)

Items on Bottom Shelf - 

            small white square cake plate - Williams Sonoma (was a wedding gift)

            pitcher - HomeGoods

            cake stand - Pottery Barn (Emma Collection - was a wedding gift)

            silver tiered tray on top of the small squared cake plate - Target

            

I hope you all have a wonderful week!