We recently completed a makeover on our dining room space and I am so excited to share with you. I will have the video I put together linked at the bottom of this post, that will show the space when we moved in as well as what it looked like a couple months ago. It also gives sources for everything in my dining room.
The lower level of our home is a completely open concept space. The kitchen dining room and living area are all completely open to one another. Since it is so open our dining space is more of a "nook" so we wanted to do a couple things to define the space better, as well as add more storage.
To do this we started by adding in a row of cabinets along the wall for extra storage. We purchased these cabinets as stock unfinished cabinets from Lowes. We actually used upper cabinets because they are shallower which is what we needed for the space. Our contractor installed the cabinets for us then we painted them to match the cabinets in the kitchen and stained wood to use as the topper. This created a buffet style addition that we use as our coffee bar.
Above the cabinets we built some Farmhouse style open shelving, see post with video on how we built them here. The addition of these shelves was great for again some extra storage but also to decorate and really make the space homey.
Our dining room table is still the same table we had at our last home, we love its unique look. We got it at Nebraska furniture mart, it is a faux concrete top, that apparently has some concrete in it because it is very heavy. It is paired with 4 of the chairs that came with the table then the two captains chairs on each end we actually purchased separately from At Home and they somehow matched perfectly. I love the look the white fabric brings into the whole table.
All these additions made the dining room a completely different space, both aesthetically and practically. We are so happy with how it came out, it met all of our expectations. Something else to note is we did this makeover for a very reasonable budget. We purchased the 4 cabinets, on sale at Lowes for $75 each, the wood top we did for about $30 and the shelves we did for around $40 total, so everything was done for less than $400. This is an amazing cost, my in laws actually priced doing similar addition of cabinets in their dining room and got a quote for $4000 for that only (with granite counter top) so we did this for 1/10th of the cost.
Watch Full Makeover Video Here with Before & After
Sources:
- Dining Table- Similar
- Dining Table Captains Chairs- At Home
- Unfinished Cabinets
- Wood Cabinet Top- Lowes
- Wood for Shelves- Lowes
- Shelf Brackets
- Lantern Chandelier
- Espresso Machine- Starbucks Verismo now discontinued
- Shelf decor- all given in the video above
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