After I wrote my 2026 Grasp Checklist of Residence Objectives submit final week, I didn’t embrace latest footage of the breakfast room as a result of Matt and I had been utilizing that room as our short-term bed room for over a yr whereas I labored on our master suite suite all final yr. 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 received 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 short-term 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 was our short-term bed room. Whereas ending different areas, I’ve shopped our home for objects that might work in these different areas, and most of these objects got here from the breakfast room. So now this room is wanting a bit naked. Right here’s what it appeared like earlier than…
And right here’s what the opposite facet of the room appeared like…
The art work 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 possibly can 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 any case 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 remaining is wanting just a little unhappy and naked proper now.
However that is the wall that wants essentially the most consideration. My twine covers have fallen off the wall, and now there are not any benches or the rest to cover them.
And this wall is in determined want of COLOR!
And I’ve lastly determined what I need to do. I need 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 would like, 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 need to use my spoon pinwheel artwork on one facet, after which I need to make one other coordinating piece of art work out of the identical factor (wooden spoons) however in a special sample for the opposite facet. My spoon pinwheel art work 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 believe this will probably be significantly better.
UPDATE: I discovered a inexperienced sideboard that may work for the aim of illustrating my imaginative and prescient, however this isn’t fairly the appropriate coloration or model that I would like.
Since I hope to show this room again right into a breakfast room with a eating desk and chairs by the top of this yr, it simply is sensible to have sideboards there as an alternative of benches. These benches by no means received used like I assumed they might.
After which, after all, I’ll be looking out for the right cloth for these home windows…
This time, I’ll make them correctly. The final ones had been just one width of cloth for every curtain panel. They’re good for my closet window, however they had been really means too skimpy for such a big window space on this room. So I’ll double up on cloth this time. And I believe I additionally need 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 searching for. After all, once I begin a search already realizing what I’m searching for, that always makes it rather more troublesome to search out the appropriate 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 okay for a sitting room, however I’ll need a chandelier of some kind to go above a eating desk. However once more, I’ve loads of time to search out simply the appropriate mild fixture for the room. Earlier than any of that may occur, I’ll must discover a place for Matt’s recliner the place he can spend a number of hours every day sitting comfortably whereas watching TV. I do not 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 would like my eating space again! 😀
Extra About Our Breakfast Room
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can study extra about me right here.
