This was my first time installing real wallpaper (I’ve done removable a few times – here and here). We decided to steal it and use in in here to cover over the old paper (Ethan was kind to oblige). I ordered a few rolls of this woods wallpaper last year for our son’s room (see his design board here) that we had not used yet. It didn’t take long and while it was definitely an improvement, that wallpaper still bugged us. I used a coat of primer and two coats of our white trim paint we used in the studio and upstairs. We don’t really need a dining room and so it just stored all our extra junk and gave the kids a place to work on their cardboard + duct tape creations.Ī week before Christmas, we decided to at least just paint out the doors and window trim white to match the rest of the trim. Just to be clear: except for last Christmas for a brief moment, the dining room either looked like a version of the above photo or the below photo for the entire year we’ve lived here.

I pulled the border off right when we moved in and the rest remained and basically became the dumping ground for all the things we didn’t know where to put. The bottom of the walls are bead board, the top was wallpapered in a sage-y green small leaf print with a border around the perimeter. Here’s how the room looked in the real estate photos:Īnd the view from the living room on the day we closed on the house. What started as two coats of paint turned into more paint and wallpaper and a new light fixture … and we’re so excited about how it turned out. However, we were hosting all of our family for Christmas and figured a little paint on the doors and trim would go a long way in making the room feel slightly more up to date. It wasn’t really on our immediate house-reno list since our ultimate plan is to take out the wall between the dining room and kitchen to open up the space and reconfigure the floorplan.

Right before Christmas, we decided to give our dining room a makeover.

Design my home makeover level 51