Dear Lillie: dark dining room

Sunday, February 5, 2017

A Chandelier for Our Dining Room

Although our dining room isn't finished yet, it's coming together. I haven't decided for sure on a wallpaper yet but I've got it narrowed down to two...or so I think. Ha! However, we have found a chandelier and I absolutely positively LOVE it! I was worried I wasn't going to be able to find one I loved as much as the one we used in our last dining room. In fact, I pondered just getting that same one but then I found this one from our sponsor, Candelabra Inc. and I love it every bit as much! Maybe even more! I love the way it has both a rustic, yet still elegant feel to it. I've actually pondered getting a second one for another spot in our house because I love it so much.

We also added two more of the round back chairs so we could have a full set for the table and moved the chairs from the kitchen into here at the ends of the table because the window seat where they were is going to be built this week (yay!) so we don't need them in there anymore.

It's hard to photograph the chandelier from this angle but I love the way it looks against the windows.

Here's a view of the dining room from the kitchen:

And here it is from the living room:

These chairs aren't going to stay in here. They are either going out on our porch or up in our bonus room but until I find some comfy wingback chairs for here they will stay in here to add some seating.

You can see the other side of our living room here in this post.

And then here are some wider shots of the dining room:

Dining Room:

Wall Color - Gravel Gray by Benjamin Moore in Eggshell
Trim - Existing but planning on painting it Simply White eventually

Door Color - Mopboard Black by Benjamin Moore in Semi-gloss Finish

Beadboard Wallpaper (below chair rail) - can be found here

Chandelier - Shop Candelabra

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

Upholstered Round Back Side Chairs - World Market

Pillows on Side Chairs - Motif Pillows

Slipcovered End Chairs - Lee Industries (about 7 or 8 years ago)

Pillows on End Chairs - Motif Pillows

Side Chairs - Joss and Main

Runner - Pottery Barn

White Planter on Table - Birch Lane

Sideboard - Found at a Consingment Shop and Painted in Paris Gray (I think...it's been a few years)

Lamps - HomeGoods

Topiaries - Joss and Main

Mirror - Joss and Main

White Beaded Dishes - Milford Square Dishes from Birch Lane

Paperwhites - Savvy Home and Garden several years ago (they are now closed)

Living Room:

Wall Color - Blue Note in Eggshell by Benjamin Moore

Trim Color - Existing (it has a slightly greenish color to it so will get a coat of Simply White to match what we are doing in the rest of the house when I get a chance)

Doors - Mopboard Black

Drapery Panels - Barn and Willow in Mist Gray with Blackout Liner

Drapery Rods - Target

Rug - RugsUSA - Bosphorus Floral Ornament in the Ivory Color and 8 by 10 size

Two Side Chairs - World Market

Side Table - Joss and Main

Vase - The Arrow's Nest

Clock - Savvy 5 years ago

Sofa - Barbara Hartman Interiors

Square Pillows - HomeGoods

Lumbar Pillows - Motif Pillows

Artwork - Deann Art

Side Table - Birch Lane

Lamp - Aidan Gray (on clearance about ten years ago)

Bust - antique, gift

Throws on sofa - HomeGoods

Tufted Ottoman - We made it. You can read more about it here.

Throw on Ottoman - HomeGoods

Gold Tray - HomeGoods

Vase - TJMaxx

Little Women Book - Anna Bond

Sconces - Existing

Painting above fireplace - HomeGoods

Greenery - Savvy Home and Garden

Pheasants - antique, gift

Kitchen cabinet color we think is Lampblack by Benjamin Moore.

We hope you all have a wonderful week ahead!

*Chandelier was provided by Candelabra in exchange for this post. We chose the chandelier and all thoughts and opinions are our own. Affiliate links are used in this post at no extra cost to you.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

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!