Yeay - a Dining Room .... Finally!!

Well, it has been over a year since the start of the remodeling project.  More like a year and a half if you count the initial planning and architecture phases.  And Andy still has a long road to go.  But, there is still progress to report.... finally!!  He made it just in time for the annual Halloween bash!!  Otherwise, he would have been in real trouble.

The last report was in late July when the kitchen was finished.  The next room scheduled was to convert the former living room into a dining room.  The old dining room was so small that, during a dinner party, if one person had to get up, several had to also get up.  Monica always wanted a large dining room so it was a natural to convert the old living room in to a formal dining room once we lost the old dining room to the stairwell.

Along with the dining room, we also re-did the little hallway off of the dining room.

Short after completing the kitchen, Andy was surveying the living getting a handle on what tasks he needed to accomplish.  He opened the doors to the wet bar and, whoa, it was really ugly and decided something needed to be done.  The house was built in the mid 1980's and the bar really looked the part.  It had yucky formica counter top, a smoked mirror back, glass shelves and a real ugly globe light fixture.  It had to go.

The idea Andy came up with was to convert it to an small open wet serving area.  He decided to use black granite tile on the counter and some black/white mosaic tile leftover from the entry floor on the wall.  He had to remove and lower the counter to file the tile, install the wall tile, install new faucet and new light fixture.

 

The wall tile is the same as the entry flooring trimmed at the top and bottom with the black granite tile used on the countertop.  New faucet, light fixture and electrical outlet/switch covers.

The doors and drawers need to be added but the upper part will remain open.

Then the usual tasks had to be done.  Wall and ceiling prep.  Paint ceiling.  Prime areas that were repaired or were new.  Then time to paint the walls.  We decided to use the same red used as accent walls which is similar to the previous color but much darker and richer with white trim.  Andy wanted to bring some of the other colors as well so he decided to use gray below the chair rail.  Painting was a bit of a pain with all of the picture frame molding.  Very tedious and time-consuming.

The old flooring was removed and Andy installed the same flooring as in the great room.  The flooring was much less tedious than the painting.  We also bought new fireplace doors and curtains. 

Andy finished the room a couple of weeks before the Halloween party in time to bring some of the furniture out of storage and to decorate before the festivities.

Looking from the entry.  New paint, new flooring, new fireplace doors, new curtains, light fixture a the correct lenght and some art on the walls.  The two small painting on the far wall were painted by Monica.  Eventually we will add the armoir that Monica inherited in place of the glass table next to the far wall.

From the other side of the room you can see the newly renovated wet bar and the other wine cabinet whose tops fold out to make a nice serving area.

Looking toward the entry.  A hutch is on the right.  As you can see, there is actually room to fit the table with both leaves and all chairs with room left over.

We are please with how the dining room turned out.  Now that the big Halloween extravaganza is over, Andy is turning his attention to the next room converting the old den into the TV room with something extra.

Somehow Andy will need to incorporate this huge kegerator into the TV room.  This goes along with his new hobby of home brewing beer.  Should be interesting to see what he comes up with.