Dining Room

Our dining room is right off of the keeping room and where our kitchen table is. It is also a direct shot to the screen porch. I love the placement of it because I feel like when we have parties or have a lot of people over guest will actually go into the dining room without feeling like they are isolated from everyone else.  We used what was the original living room in the old house and used it for our dining room. It is a sunken room, which we kept because we felt it added a little character and kept the dining room feeling like a separate room since it is right beside the center of the house and where we spend most of our time.  

I found some pictures of similar paneling on Pinterest and just printed to show to our builder and trim carpenter and I love the way it turned out.  Robby painted the walls so that they could be different from our main color.  It's Sherwin Williams, Morris Room Gray.  The light was a Ballard Designs outlet find for an incredible price.  So incredible that Robby bought two!  We have one hanging in the dining room and another in the office.

I think the thing I really love about our new dining room is all of the space and the fact that you can really see our table.  We bought our dining room table right after we got married and it is a really large table. It's extra long and all of our dining rooms have been a little on the smaller side. This room is much larger than our other dining rooms...so much so that several friends have asked if we got a new table because you just didn't notice it before.