My Dining Room Makeover - Part 3

Ta-da! I painted for twelve hours on Saturday, my mom helped me for five, and my husband for a couple of hours too. And here's the result:

Just to remind you what the "before" looked like:

Since that photo was taken, I've reupholstered my chairs and painted them silver:

Had a little retail therapy at Crate & Barrel to pick up these beauties:

And picked up this fabulous handcut linoleom print from Etsy artist Rainy Prints:

And these fab red candlesticks from TJ Maxx ($5 each):

I still have to paint the insides of the built-ins (they're still dark green - I'll paint them white or light blue) and have to paint the hope chest white. I also need to purchase my chandelier, and may even paint the china hutch white at some point too (but not any time soon). For now I'm really happy with how it turned out. The secret to finding the right color...we had to go to the "white" paint chips, not the "blue" ones. All the blues were too saturated and only on the white ones could we find a color light enough.

for my other dining room posts, read here:

My Dining Room Makeover Part 1

My Dining Room Makeover Part 2