Before . and . After { Dining Room }

I wonder how, after a year and a half of working at things, our house isn't completely redone yet. One answer is that no one has left us an anonymous donation so that we might quickly do everything that we'd like. The other is simply that fixing things up takes quite literally, forever.

It must have been an eon since I posted our bedroom and front porch before & afters, but I have finally have another to offer up: the formal dining room.

Before:




After:








What we did:

- ripped off the wallpaper (honest to goodness, the first thing that I did once we had the keys)
- painted the walls // door // trim white
- took out the laminate floors and installed Brazillian Cherry hardwood
- put up new floor molding // trim + white wainscoting going into the room.
- lots of pretty green plants.

Total cost (labor + furniture + materials ) = $1200.00