Roomspiration-Dining Rooms

It's time for another Roomspiration party-dining rooms! Today's party is being hosted by Jena at Involving Color blog.

I have posted A LOT about our dining room. I honestly think this room suffers from an identity crisis at this point, it has been changed around so many times.

Many of my DIY projects were completed for this room, and I have posted it as my "favorite" room on a couple of blogs (Sadie + Stella, A Lived in Home), but I have never written a post for my blog about this room...so I am sharing the post with you I wrote for Megan's Makeover Monday at A Lived in Home because it sums up everything about my dining room.

My husband and I bought a 1950's brick rancher when we moved to New Mexico in April, 2008.

Since then, we have been working on transforming every room in our house to make it our own .

We started with our dining room...and boy has it seen some changes.

It was the first room we started renovating when we moved in, because it was the worst.

Here is our dining room now:

This is what it looked like when we moved into our home.

I have to admit, I was not a fan of the rustic, green barnwood wainscoting...so
the day after we moved in I told my husband it had to go.

He built the wainscoting, which drastically changed the look and feel of the room.

After he built the wainscoting, we painted the room SW Dovetail gray
and moved in our furniture.

This spring, I decided the room needed a little more color and I started adding pops of coral.

I started by designing and sewing these burlap drapes trimmed in coral.

I still felt like it was missing something...
so I DIYed a coral ikat print for the chairs...

and added fresh artwork.

Thought I was finished, didn't you?

Nope, two more changes were in order:

1. I made a tailored table skirt to turn my hand me down sofa table into a buffet table



and

2. changed the artwork...
(can you count how many times it has been changed in this post alone?)

When I look back at where we started, I can't even believe it is the same room.

Hopefully, this room is finally finished, I am pretty sure it has had a full-blown identity crisis.

But, I have to ask...is a room ever really finished?

Thank you for stopping by!

Now head on over and link up your dining room at Involving Color so I can read all about it!

Abode Love - entryways Sept. 12th
View Along the Way - living rooms Sept. 14th
Homemaker on a Dime - bathrooms Sept.16th
DIY by Design - guest bedrooms Sept. 19th
Family Brings Joy - craft rooms Sept. 21st
Involving Color - dining rooms Sept. 23rd
All Things Bright & Beautiful - kids bedrooms Sept. 26th
a la mode - nurseries Sept. 28th
Just a Touch of Gray - master bedrooms Sept. 30th
The Blooming Hydrangea - closets and nooks Oct. 3rd
The Mustard Ceiling - laundry and mudrooms Oct. 5th
The DIY Showoff - kitchens Oct. 7th

Have a fabulous weekend!