Dining Room: Beautiful Built-ins
This family had a gorgeous craftsman style dining set and a Restoration Hardware ceiling light that they brought with them to their new home. We installed built-in white-painted cabinets to serve as a display and buffet next to the table area, and stained cabinets for the bar area off the patio door area leading to the barbeque out back. Opting for painted cabinets for the built-in hutch area set off the lovely cherry dining set they already owned, while the stained wood let the bar area recede.
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Dining Room: Simple Softening
This couple owned a beautiful home and already had great furnishings, but the dining room felt cold and unfinished.
We warmed up the whole room by painting the walls and ceiling a deep camel color, and softened and grounded the space with a generous, luxurious area rug. We eliminated the glass chandelier with its hard square edges and replaced it with a round fixture with a linen covered drum shade, and updated the chairs with new fabric to compliment the new paint and carpet.
There was no need to overhaul this room - we just took what they had and helped to complete the look.
We warmed up the whole room by painting the walls and ceiling a deep camel color, and softened and grounded the space with a generous, luxurious area rug. We eliminated the glass chandelier with its hard square edges and replaced it with a round fixture with a linen covered drum shade, and updated the chairs with new fabric to compliment the new paint and carpet.
There was no need to overhaul this room - we just took what they had and helped to complete the look.
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Dining Room: Paint and Accessories
This bachelor owned beautiful mid-century furniture but hadn’t been able to make the space feel warm or personal. Simply painting the walls in several shades of warm grey, reupholstering the chairs from office tweed to navy leather, and adding some modern, masculine accessories, and the room went from cold and impersonal to warm and inviting, without every feeling ‘fussy’.
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