The Dining Room

This little spot would technically be the dining room of the original house. We’ve used it for all sorts of things, a book nook, lots of baskets of toys and just an open rug when the kids were young. This table came with the house and it opens to about 12 feet, the perfect Holiday table! I don’t love the look of the table but the bones are so good so I just used some fabrics I collected from retreats and a rug I’ve had forever.

I have a colorful (for me) color palette against the Cotton Blossom white walls. Turkish inspired with the rug and pillows, Kantha blankets and patterns, mud cloth and of course, my beloved sheepskin.

I am not overdecorating because the idea is to stage the house to sell even if we end up using it for a bit before making that decision. But I’m going to have to put more art on the walls, I love white walls but not to be left bare.

The only thing we bought for this room was the Turkish rug that I’ve hung on the wall and the chandelier that is my favorite choice for the entire house. The Midcentury Mod-boho collaboration. Here is the before and after.

I adore this room now, when you walk into the house it feels like a home and you quickly catch site of this space and just want to go cook a big stew and make some coffee and sit and just be. This room took forever to paint because of all the fake wood panels and the trim that needed sanding, priming and painting. So worth the effort. Dave keeps saying the house feels so clean.

I know a lot of people would not have chosen to paint the trim and we could certainly tried to freshen it up but the house has incredibly low ceilings and to create the look of more space and height your eye needs to not be stopped by anything, such as trim. So the white walls blend right into the white trim which goes right up to the ceiling creating the illusion of a much larger space.

Next up the entry way living room which we are calling the fire place living room as our main living room has a wood stove.