2nd house Updates! Dining room project

Moving on to the dining room space!

Check out the upstairs floor plan from the last blog on the house here to find your way around.

Last I wrote, we hadn't even started on the chair rail for the space (which by the way was originally a small bedroom, right next to the kitchen!).

First step was to address the intersection of the three doors at the top of the basement stairs.  Of course we left the exterior back door in tact, but the basement door and the door leading into the bedroom converted to dining room had to be taken down.  As you can see they just cause too much confusion/congestion to that space:

Then, I painted the lower portion of the wall which will be under the chair rail.  Here is the paint color I chose:

Yes, I love teal!!  When else am I going to get a chance to use this color???!??  :-D

Here you can see the effect of removing the doors as well:

I stopped the paint at 32" inches up thinking this would be a good height considering the "Golden Mean", a mathematical study of proportion found in nature, considering the height of the ceilings, window placement, etc.

Next, we installed the light fixture from Lowes shown here, inspired by my dear friend Andrea :)  I liked how the teal color on the wall is picked up in the light fixture.

Lit up:

Not lit up:

Still need to patch and repaint the area around the top of the light where it connects to the ceiling.

This is how the room stayed for a few months before we got around to actually buying, painting and installing the chair rail...

And then I finally took the time to stage it up a little bit to show how the chair rail looks in this small space!!

Same angle as above:

It really is a small space--probably too small for the table we have, but I figure it can sit against the wall most of the time--we were able to fit 6 around it for a meal with my family around Christmas-time! (which I was surprised about, but we angled it and made it work!)

The space has a dual function for us--the bedroom closet space fits our office desk perfectly.  So, I fashioned a curtain to cover the messy space for most of the time, pictured here:

view from the kitchen space

view from in front of the doorway to the hall

view toward kitchen space (can see back door in background)

view toward hallway

Couple detail shots of the table spread:

candlelight would be romantic in the evening :)