Ideas for a Dining Room

I am so excited that we are actually going to have a dining room! Our current house is so small and the floorplan is so closed in that we hesitate to have guests over to entertain. My goal this year is to host Thanksgiving at our house, and to do that, I've been looking at ways to make our house welcoming and yet make it our own at the same time.

 

They have added chair rail to separate the top and bottom halves of the wall. The top wall they color washed and the bottom half they used a stencil and rollers to apply two different colors of paint to make the room pop.

The top part is really cool too because they added in painted wall frames to access and decorative wall art that you have.

 

Go here to get instructions on how to stencil on wall art:

http://www.lowes.com/creative-ideas/paint-stain-and-wallpaper/moroccan-pattern-stenciled-wainscot/project

 

If you want to learn how to color wash and add in the painted wall frames, you can find directions here:

http://www.lowes.com/creative-ideas/paint-stain-and-wallpaper/color-wash-walls/project

 

I also love this idea of adding the decorative painted ceiling to accent a chandelier.

 

You can find the instructions on how to do this here:

http://www.lowes.com/creative-ideas/paint-stain-and-wallpaper/decorative-painted-ceiling/project

 

I find the stenciled wall mirror adorable and it would look amazing over a little credenza. Add some do it yourself floral arrangements with a nice dining room table and maybe a wooden wine rack and you will have a very warm area to entertain.

I am not the type of person to choose bold colors as pictured here..mostly because I am not the type of person to choose pink, but on the other side, I don't want to choose colors that are too dark. Our plan is to refinish a wood table and chairs for the dining room and we are thinking with going on a darker stain. I'm thinking that I want to go with shades of blue and green but I think that I am also going to have to play with color scenarios in my head.

To help me with this task, I have tried using both behr and valspar color simulators where you can actually upload pictures of the room you want to paint. I have found that Valspar is easier to use for me. All you have to do is sign up with an email address and you are on your way!

 

http://www.valsparpaint.com/en/explore-colors/painter/index.html?screen=painterScreen