Dining Room Update–ORC Week 4

  Progress on the dining room update is moving right along as I attempt to complete the project in six weeks as a participant in the One Room Challenge at the Calling it Home blog. The photo below shows what I started with.   The old wallpaper has been removed and has been replaced by this P Kaufmann fabric, Malawi, in the Hibiscus color. You can read about that process by clicking here and here. The wall below the chair rail was  given a fresh coat of Valspar paint, Pam’s...

Dining Room Update- ORC Week 3

This is week 3 of the One Room Challenge in which I will be redecorating my formal dining room and posting updates over the course of 6 weeks. In Week One I shared the “before” pictures. You can see them by clicking here. Last week (week 2) I shared the labor intensive process of stripping the existing wallpaper and repairing the walls. You can see that post by clicking here. This week I feel like I made some progress! I used the beautiful floral fabric by P Kauffman as wallpaper! After removing...

Dining Room Update–Week 2

Week One of the dining room update involved a tremendous amount of work. Not yet to the fun part but a very necessary part.This is a close-up shot of the fabric samples. I love color and pattern and am very excited to get started. The photo above shows the current rug and the fabric samples. The wallpaper sample is from the adjoining foyer. The rug will be staying for now but may be changed later. The frist step was to remove the existing wallpaper. As you can see from the photo above, most...

Updating the Dining Room- One Room Challenge

After taking a break from blogging for several months I have decided to participate in the One Room Challenge at Calling It Home. The challenge is to complete a one room project in six weeks and post progress reports online. I will be redecorating our formal dining room. There is nothing wrong with the room, I am just ready for a change after 29 years! All of the furniture will stay and the rug is staying for now but may be changed later. I will be changing the brass chandelier and I will be...