The Dining Room Makeover Part 2

PROGRESS! It has been a busy two weeks for the dining room makeover. After the wallpaper was removed, we had the dining room painted. The color is Guilford Green (HC116) from Benjamin Moore, our favorite paint. Our downstairs is painted in Benjamin Moore's Quincy Tan (HC 25) which is also in their historical collection, so I knew that we would like the color and we do! Then John, the wallpaper man, hung the new wallpaper. I really like the paper...there is so much depth of color and texture to it. I've included a close up picture of the wallpaper so that you can see what I mean. As John was hanging the wallpaper, I said, "The wallpaper really brings out the richness of the furniture's color!" And John said,"Yeah, this is country club green! I've done many clubs in this type of green. You have a country club dining room!" I laughed...if only the meals I cooked tasted like a country club dinner =). Brent hung the chandelier while the boys and I were gone last weekend. It is beautiful! Just enough sparkle =). Then today the rug was delivered. It really brings the room together. To me, the rug was hard to select because the samples that we had to choose from were 2 ft by 3 ft, so it was hard to visualize how the pattern was going to repeat. But I just love it! I love the colors and I love the fact that it is muted. It feels like we have had the rug forever or that it was a family heirloom and not like we just purchased it.

The next steps: The window treatment will be hung on Nov 5. Very simple drapes. Straight light beige panels with a pretty fringe trim down the sides. They will be hung on a simple iron rod. We are also adding two new host/hostess chairs so that we will have seating for 8, instead of the current 6. As a side note, the whole dining room was designed around the current dining room chairs. My grandmother and her best friend did all of the needlepoint seat cushions. I knew I would always keep them for sentimental value (the time and love that went into all of those stitches) and the family history. The new host/hostess chairs are the same Queen Anne style but will be covered in a beautiful dark green velvet and the cording for the chairs has celadon green, dark green, and a touch of red in it. Then we will center Jack's oil portrait over the buffet. In a few years when we have Will's portrait done, we will hang both of the portraits side-by-side over the buffet. And I am not sure what we will do for accessories. The decorator mentioned lamps for the buffet, but we haven't talked in detail about those.