One Room Challenge: Dining Room Reveal

I'm excited to share with you today over a month of hard work that went into decorating my dining room from a paint chipped room to a fully designed dining room. And now, my favorite room in the house.

I challenged myself to finish the room in just six weeks or less like the One Room Challenge from Calling It Home. If you've been following along since the beginning, you'll remember that I started at square one.  I needed new paint and remove the unused radiators to open up space in the room. 

Here is the before with painted yellow wall that were chipping.

Before

For the moodboard, I wanted a little French country meets traditional meets glam.

Moodboard

The Reveal!

These bistro chairs stole my heart. When I was first designing the mood board for the room I had intended to mix and match chairs either at the table or as accent chairs alongside the buffet. I leaned on using them as accent chairs next to the buffet, but when I brought two home they looked so great mixed and matched at the table I instantaneously went back to the store for two more. Despite being adorable (and so French), they are surprisingly comfortable! 

The chandelier is one of my favorite items in the room. It brings the "old world" look to the room I think it needed in order to make it feel consistent with the style of our nearly 100 year old home. It's also a great balance for the contemporary buffet. 

The buffet... I decided this piece could be a real money saver. I picked out a mid-century buffet on Craigslist, and I refurbished it with chalk paint and new hardware (Before & After here). (Only $75!) I'm really happy with how it turned out and have started to build my first blue and white collection. I'm expecting these jars to rotate back and forth between the buffet and as centerpieces on the dining room table.

A few of my other budget friendly larger items were the rug (an 8x10 for under $300) and our IKEA bar. Unfortunately, IKEA discontinued this line, but I think it's a great testament to how you can make a budget friendly piece look more expensive with decorating and hardware. 

The second set of curtains didn't arrive in time for the big reveal, but with the Atlanta weather being absolutely disgusting and cloudy I welcome any bit of sunlight we can get.