100 Year Old Dining Room

The house tour, I had hoped to complete in 2012, is now continuing into 2013.  So technically my house will be 101 this year.  

I warmly welcome you into our 100 {and 1} year old dining room.

Before you can appreciate what it now looks like, you'll have to take a peek at what it looked like when we bought our house {when it was a 94 year old dining room}.

Grace's first home improvement project was helping my dad and I add box moulding detail on the dining room's bare walls.

The addition of the moudlings gave this room some much needed character and charm.

Grace's second home improvement projects was helping me paint the baseboards and door frames white.

For any wood purist, before you gasp in horror.  The wood in our house was not in great shape.  Painting the baseboards and door frames white really opened up the room and brightened up the space.

We didn't stop with painting the baseboards and the trim either, using some Annie Sloan, I painted this cabinet.

Not only did it bring the back of the room another element of brightness, it also seemed to give this piece of furniture a beautiful second new life.

 Some of the other, simpler changes, was removing the dated ceiling fan

And replacing it with an updated light fixture. 

At one point, I had some burgundy curtains hanging in this room.

Actually, those curtains still are hanging in the dining room, I just turned them around and on the backside added no sew black stripes.

Some of my favorite decorating details in this room are the addition of a faux sheep skin rug to the top of my dining room table with a few of the globes I've collected on top.  Something about it makes me smile.

And a vintage English pond boat we found at a flea market.

And this area, as they say, is where the magic happens.  The blogging magic that is.  This is my Goodwill corner of the world.  The secretary is vintage Ethan Allen and hands down the most I have ever spent at Goodwill {$65}.  You may also spy my famous Goodwill chair there as well.

So, before you bid adieu to my dining room, here is the original view from my kitchen looking into the dining room.

Which now looks like this...

And that is what a 100 {and 1} year old dining room looks like.

*Like the paint color we used.  Here are the details: Behr Sag Harbor Gray.