How did you spend X-mas week? I bet you didn’t decide to host guests on the preceeding Monday of Christmas Day and remodel your entire dining room like we did!
Long in the works, we started several weeks ago by procuring a console in the hopes that it could be used as a side console table where liquor could be stored – or at least hide the cat litter boxes in it. Scored off of Craigslist for $20, it only took some transit gasoline and some manpower to get it to the house. Deciding that we would host pushed the remodel process a lot more quickly than we had originally planned.
Console:
Before:
We lightly sanded it, and spray primed it – finishing with a flat black paint.
Table/Chairs:
We also had my original dining room table and chairs from my childhood home. This remarkably modern dining room set is somewhere around forty years old. Surprising how timeless they ended up looking. Unfortunately, the natural dark wood finish did look a little dated – or at least did not fit into our overall plan. Originally buried (and unused) under tons of household detritus, we cleaned it off and prepped it for paint. Sanded both table and chairs, spray primered and finished with a flat black.
Before:
Flooring:
Beyond the actual furniture, the dining room floor itself was a disaster. When the house was purchased, the crappy carpet was pulled and it was discovered there was nothing but concrete floor. For the remainder of the years that I’ve owned it *6* the floor has been nothing but unappealing and unwelcoming concrete. At this point in the remodel project, we had already extended the paint into the dining room.
Before:
Stymied for last minute, easy flooring options, one of Rochelle’s co-workers suggested vinyl flooring. Easy enough for the novice to pull off in several hours, we rolled the dice. It came out great! Each piece of vinyl was 6″ x 36″ and attached to itself – like a giant carpet of vinyl (when done anyway). Looks like wood, durable, easy to install.
After:
David sucks at painting, so Rochelle handled most of the paintwork involved in the dining room furniture and the console.
Console after:
Table and chairs after:
Casual observers will note the trippy seat cushion pattern – which is actually the original upholstery for these chairs! The chairs had been recovered twice, but we found the original trippy blue/green/yellow worked great with the black furniture and the mood we were trying to create.
Chair detail:
After that, all that was left was decoration.
The final product:
It came out excellent – especially since this project was more or less put into motion on a Monday evening, and finished on the following Saturday morning.