The original dining room featured a wall of cabinets, built-in bookshelf, exposed cedar beam and fake-slate linoleum tile. Hardly charming, and not terribly functional or attractive.
We tried our best to make the dining room presentable, but it was a space that never seemed to work well for us. We always found it odd that such a small house would have such a large dining room...
and that's why we turned it into our family room!
We ripped out the lower and upper cabinets to create a space for our TV and Finley's books and toys.
We opted to keep the built-in bookshelf because it was actually useful. To add a little pizzaz to it, I stenciled this design (free courtesy of Jones Design Company) along the back of the bookshelf to mimic wallpaper. All in all, the stencil project probably took around 3 hours, which was time well spent in my book.
We painted the beam to help it blend in a bit better and we ripped out four (4!!) layers of linoleum and put down wood floors. Looking at the floors still makes me a happy girl! In addition to ripping out the cabinets on what is now the TV wall, we also ripped out a very randomly placed lower cabinet that was to the right of the sliding glass door. My orange reading chair is now in its place.
Here is the view of the room from the kitchen.
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