The Dining Room...It's For Special Occasions

So the dining room has been done since we moved in, but I realized that I hadn't posted any pictures of it! (Shame on me...) The room has an awesome tray ceiling, but when we got the house, the entire room was primed. And I'm pretty sure there was pink paint showing through the primer... (Seriously, was there not a room that wasn't pink at some point in time?!?) I knew that I wanted 2colors in this room with chair rail in the middle, but I also though I wanted wainscoting or bead board on the bottom. However, after some pricing, I realized that I didn't need this, but we still did 2 colors.

Here's a reminder of how "pretty" primer can be (especially on a tray ceiling)...

Very boring, and very white, with an inappropriate light fixture for a dining room. However, with a little paint, some chair rail, and a new chandelier, we ended up with a beautiful dining room. Take a look!!

Yes, it does have an arched doorway from the hall, which I love so I decided to include it when I took this photo. We decided to continue the green into the dining room because they are adjoining room, and we had enough paint left over from the kitchen island to use it in here as well!! (The funnier thing is that the walls and the island don't even look like the same color!) In addition to being able to reuse the paint from the kitchen island, we were also able to reuse the paint from the family on the bottom half of the wall.

Thank goodness for extra paint. It makes all the rooms flow very nicely together, and we didn't have to buy extra paint just to paint half of a wall. It worked out perfectly!!

XO, J&K