Once I wrote my 2026 Grasp Listing of Dwelling Targets submit final week, I didn’t embody latest footage of the breakfast room as a result of Matt and I had been utilizing that room as our non permanent bed room for over a 12 months whereas I labored on our main bedroom suite all final 12 months. Even after we moved into our new bed room final week, the adjustable mattress base was nonetheless within the breakfast room. So with a ton of assist from my mother, we bought the mattress moved out and put again collectively as a sitting room, which is how the room was getting used earlier than we made it our non permanent bed room.
I’m so glad to have this room again in usable situation once more, however it’s removed from the place it was earlier than being became our non permanent bed room. Whereas ending different areas, I’ve shopped our home for gadgets that will work in these different areas, and most of these gadgets got here from the breakfast room. So now this room is trying a bit naked. Right here’s what it regarded like earlier than…
And right here’s what the opposite aspect of the room regarded like…
The paintings above the benches was the very first thing I “shopped” for my closet, and people now hold above my washer and dryer.
And as you may see from the above footage, the curtains from the breakfast/sitting room are actually in my closet as properly.
I reupholstered and painted one of many benches for our bed room suite lobby. (This isn’t the place the bench ended up, however this image exhibits the bench higher than the newest footage.)
And I even took the plant and the orange and cream throws for our bed room suite. So in spite of everything of that, that is what the breakfast room appears like now. The gallery wall with the TV is the one factor that hasn’t modified…
However the remainder is trying slightly unhappy and naked proper now.
However that is the wall that wants essentially the most consideration. My wire covers have fallen off the wall, and now there are not any benches or anything to cover them.
And this wall is in determined want of COLOR!
And I’ve lastly determined what I wish to do. I wish to purchase or construct two matching sideboards to go on these partitions. I extremely doubt that they’ll be pure wooden, however I couldn’t discover what I need, so I simply used these for the mockup. I sort of have my coronary heart set on inexperienced sideboards. Now that I’ve used inexperienced fairly prominently within the bed room, I’m sort of on a inexperienced kick. After which above them, I wish to use my spoon pinwheel artwork on one aspect, after which I wish to make one other coordinating piece of paintings out of the identical factor (wooden spoons) however in a unique sample for the opposite aspect. My spoon pinwheel paintings might be my favourite piece of artwork I’ve ever made, and I don’t assume it’s present placement in the lounge is the perfect place for it. I feel this will probably be a lot better.
UPDATE: I discovered a inexperienced sideboard that can work for the aim of illustrating my imaginative and prescient, however this isn’t fairly the suitable shade or type that I need.
Since I hope to show this room again right into a breakfast room with a eating desk and chairs by the tip of this 12 months, it simply is sensible to have sideboards there as a substitute of benches. These benches by no means bought used like I assumed they might.
After which, after all, I’ll be looking out for the proper cloth for these home windows…
This time, I’ll make them correctly. The final ones have been just one width of material for every curtain panel. They’re good for my closet window, however they have been truly approach too skimpy for such a big window space on this room. So I’ll double up on cloth this time. And I feel I additionally wish to search for a patterned cloth — one thing daring, colourful, and enjoyable. I haven’t even began my seek for cloth but, however I’ve a imaginative and prescient in my thoughts of what I’m on the lookout for. In fact, after I begin a search already figuring out what I’m on the lookout for, that usually makes it rather more troublesome to search out the suitable cloth. However I’m not in a rush. I can take my time with this and get it proper.
When the time comes to show this room into an precise eating space, I’ll even be swapping out the sunshine fixture. This mild fixture is ok for a sitting room, however I’ll desire a chandelier of some kind to go above a eating desk. However once more, I’ve loads of time to search out simply the suitable mild fixture for the room. Earlier than any of that may occur, I’ll have to discover a place for Matt’s recliner the place he can spend a couple of hours every day sitting comfortably whereas watching TV. I don’t know the place that may go, so till I determine that out, this room wants to remain a sitting room. However I’m extremely motivated to determine it out as a result of I need my eating space again! 😀
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.
