Our New Home~Dining Room in Gray and White

We’re slowly making our way through the home tour of our Savannah house.  You’ve already seen the front porch, the back porch, my daughter’s bathroom, the front entryway, and the laundry room.  That’s not bad considering it hasn’t even been two months since we moved!

On the agenda today is the dining room.  If you’ve followed for awhile, you’ll see most of the same pieces that were in our Nashville dining room.  After all, I can’t just buy new furniture every time we move!

Here’s the view from the front door:

On the left is my front entryway, but it’s really one big, open room.  The one wall behind the dresser is painted Weimaraner by Sherwin-Williams; the rest of the room is white.

I have an eight-foot runner that you can barely see in the bottom right of the picture.  That’s because Sunny is scared of hardwood (he falls on it a lot) and we can’t have that!  By the way, if you’ve been following his progress since we adopted him last Christmas, he’s doing great.  He’s completely recovered from his knee surgery and is down to about 100 pounds.  His arthritis bothers him, but the more weight he loses, the better he seems to feel.  His dandruff (yes, dandruff–he was a train wreck!) has completely cleared up since we started spending the big bucks on fancy dog food.

Back to the dining room…you might remember that my table and chairs were so damaged by the movers that I painted them with chalk paint last spring.  The post on that is here.  I also recovered the chairs with canvas painter’s dropcloths and used the Citrasolv fabric transfer technique to put the “B” monograms on the back.

The chalkboards used to be floral prints in gold frames–I painted the frames white and sprayed the glass with chalkboard paint.

The buffet is still unpainted, although I am tempted.  The gray chevron shelf paper on the doors is removable when the chevron craze ends.

The moss-covered sphere is one that I made using Amy’s tutorial here.

The vintage decanters on the silver tray hold some of our liquor.  Most were my grandmother’s, although a few are from thrift stores or flea markets.  I love decorating them with old photos, silver liquor labels, and most recently, an old key.

The open shelving was something I installed in our old house as part of an effort to make our dining room more casual–and hopefully, a room we’d use more often.  I used Amy’s trick of using a stair tread with corbels from off the shelf at Home Depot {here}.

I always have fun styling the shelves.  I tried to incorporate some beachy elements since we’re on the coast.

The vintage stool got a coat of metallic silver spray paint at our last house.  We pull it up to the table when little people come to visit.

My mom’s piano was damaged in the move–to the tune of $2200 in repairs!  Sadly, it was the only thing that was really damaged this time.  Why couldn’t it have been one of my cheap pieces–the house is full of those?  Anyway, it’s fixed now.

The girls on the left are my thrift store statues; I painted them both white.

I changed out the light fixture–it was BAD–and put Ballard’s Cosette chandelier in its place.  I love it!

By the way, I ordered the “rust” finish–the other choice was black.  I also put burlap around the cord and chain.  My new trick is to not cut the wire or shorten the chain of my chandeliers; instead I disguise the extra with a cord cover.  This insures that when we move to the next house, I won’t have to rewire a chandelier to lengthen a too-short cord.

My mom’s secretary is between the two windows–again, another piece that I’m tempted to paint one of these days.

I put more of the chevron shelf paper on the back of the shelves to lighten things up:

Here’s a closeup of the window treatments (well, the best I can do with the windows):

They’re from Target.  Here’s the link, if you’re interested.

Here are a few more shots…

The doorway on the right is my laundry room–you can see it right from the front door, so I either have it clean or I keep the door shut!  I added the brackets–they’re from Hobby Lobby.

 

There’s one last corner of this room that I’m not happy with…to the right of the piano.  Right now there’s a little bar/wine storage piece in that corner, but I have plans for it to get a paint job.  I also scored this chair at the thrift store this morning, and I’m going to paint the fabric (yes, paint the fabric) gray, and the wood trim white and pop it in that corner.  I’ll update you when I’m done!

Update:  I painted this chair dark grey with white wood trim, and it is gorgeous!  Click  {here} to read the tutorial.

I’m hoping I’ll be able to show you the powder room or the master bedroom next week.  The nice people at HomeRight sent me a fabulous thing called a PaintStick, and it’s made painting so fast that I’m zipping through the rooms!

Thanks for stopping by~