Farmhouse Dining Room Reveal

We recently gave our dining room a makeover. Along with all the other rooms downstairs, the dining room got a couple of coats of Benjamin Moore Crystalline to brighten it up and bring more cohesion between rooms.


It was previously (and for several years) this pumpkin color.






Along with changing the paint color, the change I was most eager to make was to move the chippy old hutch off the top of the corner buffet and place it on top of the longer, more suitable white buffet.






I love it in its new home. I also purged the brown transferware leaving only shades of white ironstone.






The architectural header made the perfect topper and a day at the orchard last week yielded my ever favorite bittersweet.






I flanked the hutch with a pair of Italian sconces. I love their elegance in juxtaposition with the rustic farmhouse hutch.






The sconces are each located right next to a window so their dripping prisms really sparkle on sunny days. When I show you my entry hall you will see where the sconces previously hung.






I love how much lighter everything feels now. One of the things I still want to do is make over the dark trestle table and chairs. That will have to be a 2016 project.
At the opposite end of the room sits my desk. I will show you what I did to make that area so much more appealing in part 2.







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