The Final Reveal Of Our Dining Room Makeover

At last our Dining Room Makeover is finished! I chuckle as I write that because is anything really ever finished when you're a DIYer?  Here a tweak, there a tweak, everywhere a tweak tweak!

Here is where we started (I've lost track of how many weeks ago)...

No longer the boring brown-on-brown-on-brown dungeon, I love how bright and happy this room feels now!

If you've been following the stages of this beer budget room makeover you'll remember it started with Phase One: Adding a Board and Batten Wall.

Then Phase Two: Painting the Dining Room Built-In China Cabinet.

Not being completely happy with how the Vintage Dining Room Suite looked in this space (which has since sold) we went on a thrift store hunt for Phase Three: A Thrift Store Duncan Phyfe Table Makeover.

One morning Mr. Frugalista decided to pop into a local thrift store while doing errands.  When he sent me a picture of four chairs from his iPhone I had one of those "start the car - start the car" moments Phase Four: Thrift Store Duncan Phyfe Chairs.

Not being able to find more Duncan Phyfe chairs we built Phase Five: Thrift Store Headboard & Footboard Become A Beautiful Dining Bench.

In between phases of the makeover I took an inexpensive mirror I purchased at Wal-Mart and made An Ordinary Mirror Look Antiqued.

While I was at it I decided to give our Vintage Silverware Chest a chalk painted French makeover...

Putting it all together, the room now looks like this...

...and I couldn't be happier!

You can see how I painted the upholstery on the chair in the forefront From Burgundy to Red.

Thanks for patiently following the transformation of our dining room over the last few months. I've read each and every one of your comments and thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated your feedback!

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