Road Block on Dining Room

Pin It Last week, I made a little inspiration board for my new dining room that will be converted into a library/office. 

On the board, there were these two tall, rustic, glass door bookcases that I thought set the mood for the whole room.   



Here is a closer look.

Then I found out where these bookcases could be purchased and knew I couldn't afford to buy one ($1800), let alone two.  So out of my budget.  Big old Sad Face everyone :(:(:(  

Although, now a $600 Orb Light I saw on Restoration Hardware doesn't sound so expensive.

Of course, then I set to pricing the hardware (Cremone Bolts) so I could replicate my own bookcases.  Ouch!!!  Those bolt prices ($175 and up for one) could explain the price of the bookcases.




Source - $420 bolts

 Long story short - While I was searching for affordable Cremore Bolts, I think I found a way to recreate these cabinets, with a similar look for a fraction of the $175+++ bolts.

I see a tutorial in the works for some rustic bookcases, don't you? 

Until then I just need to post some of my current furniture on Craigslist to make room for the new stuff. 

Karen :)

Dining Room Progress - Crown Molding

Pin It As I mentioned earlier here.  I removed the old crown molding to make it look like the crown molding I did in the breakfast room and kitchen.

Here is a picture of what the finished crown molding looks like:

As you see, the stacked crown molding has much more of an impact on the ceiling over the single piece of crown molding.

Here is a picture of the teeny tiny hallway outside the half bath (this little hallway separates the kitchen from the dining room) progress:

How I did the stacked crown molding.  See in the picture how I put the baseboard on the wall upside down?  I used my four foot level which just happens to be two inches wide and the perfect distance to space the baseboad from the ceiling.  Then, I repeated the same space on the ceiling with the level and drew a pencil line.  On the ceiling, the baseboard is set up with the top toward the middle of the room. 

Here is the dining room progress.  I still need to install the actual crown molding strip, fill the holes, caulk the seams and paint...but once it is finished, it will look just as great as the kitchen.  It is so much work, but so worth it in the end.

Here is where the dining room started (for this redesign...you can see the Ryegrass wall color wasn't the first color).  See the small crown molding?:

Have you done any interesting stacked crown molding?  I'd love to see your work.

Thanks for visiting.  Check back later this week to see the new breakfast room table.

Slow Progress with the Dining Room

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The color change was supposed to be more gray than it turned out.  Even the color said it was Shale "Gray".  However, once I painted the walls, it looked more blue than gray.

Starting point of the dining room.  I had installed a more layered looking crown molding in the kitchen, so I ripped out the crown molding to redo the look. 

Soaked the popcorn ceilings with water and scraped and scraped and inhaled ceiling debris as I removed it.  Such a messy and gross process, but I found after the hard work and a gallon of primer and eggshell paint on the ceiling it looked amazing.  The nine foot ceilings truly looked taller.  The popcorn ceilings and flat paint really lower the height of the room.

Did I mention it was a messy job?

But, after a couple of hours (and a nice arm workout - bonus!)...  Popcorn be gone!!!



I get distracted so easily.  I took a break before priming the ceiling to stain the old wall mirror.


 Here is the painted wall.

Freshened up the white with Behr's Ultra White.

I'll finish the crown molding and add photos of the "finished" room.  But, really?  Is a room ever FINISHED?  Not in my house.

New light fixture I found on Amazon.com:

New chairs from Target (and my daughter's messy art project)

Thanks for stopping by and checking out this post.

Karen