Inspiration: The Dining Room

We have a lot of big ideas for how we want the living room to end up. Jacob and I were first contemplating an accent wall, but each room in the house is so small that we don't want to risk making anything look tinier than it already is. I showed Jacob this pin of a coral half-wall and we were both in love.

Several months ago, my grandfather gave us an old dining room table and some chairs from his barn. I was determined to paint the tops and refinish the bottoms like this pin here. After choosing a palette from design seeds, we picked up some Olympic paint samples and painted our chairs to accent the new half wall.

Our next step is to paint our old baker's cart and convert it into a swanky new bar. We have taken off the doors, and plan to refinish the top with Butcher's Block finish. We are thinking of painting it mint to match the fourth chair, but are not sure yet. The end game plan is to create a hallway under the stairs where the closet currently resides and open up the doorway to the living room a bit more. Those are more financially taxing projects, but were sort of my conditions of this house.