Wow! It’s gorgeous! Everything looks wonderful, I really like your style. Swooning over the horse lamp.

Definitely worth the time you took. :)

Thank you for sharing, I’m enjoying looking at it all!

@Fori Thank you! I hated the before color. It's what came with the house. I used 2020 to get fat too, but my house became prettier. ha ha.

@Jilly I really appreciate your kind words. The horse lamp came as a pair but - get this! - they were both going in the same direction and could not be reoriented. I had the pair sitting on the sideboard but they looked like they were trying to run away. The other one got demoted to the guest bedroom.

Ha!

Listen, I’ll do you a favor … I’ll take the extra lamp off your hands. I can come get it anytime.

😁

Love your style, love this room!

Your room looks very pretty—- love the wall color drapes, and the warmth that you’ve created. I think it unrealistic to expect most people to put together layered space quickly

Warm, inviting with lots of personal touches, love it!!!

Pure charm! What a beautiful transformation. You should be very proud of what you've created.

Wow, I love that built in buffet. I like how you put together pieces that you love. That (to me) makes a design special. It went from a gloomy space to a light filled space that screams cheer. Love it 👍🏻👍🏻🤌🏻 enjoy it.

ETA: that table!

Great job! The whole room shines and is so welcoming.

Please don't get mad at me...I love what you had.

The room looks happier!

Same table and same chandelier with different shades.

Seeing the before/after I can see why you didn't like it. Now its bright, light, interesting, sweet..great job!!

So pretty!

Beautiful!! I love the colors!!

Love it! So much personality. What color are your walls?

So beautiful, but I wish your drapes were fuller even as just side panels.

What a wonderful room, I'm so tired of seeing white rooms with barely any charm. You have it all, it's fabulous!!!!

Nice room. I would add extra drape panels for more fullness. Otherwise, great!

Great change! it now looks like the person who lives there has a personality…and a life! The bar area and cabinet is fun and different. Hit me with a board, but if that china cabinet is not an heirloom piece, I might be inclined to paint it. Good on you !

Looks great. What color is the paint that you used?

Wow, your room is stunning! It's an amazing skill to weave so many separate elements into such a cohesive style statement.

Can I ask what your wall color is? It's my favorite part of a beautiful room.

LOVE this room - and I totally covet that vintage green cabinet!

Looks great, think about getting cream colored candle covers for the chandelier and you may need one size smaller torpedo style candelabra bulbs so the shades sit down on the bulb better.

The room has so much character!

Wow great job! It has so much character now!

I love the changes ! It’s lively and lovely. I’d personally like to see fuller curtains to set off the welcoming vibe.

This is magazine worthy, absolutely beautiful. The bar hutch is fantastic!

I wish she had given us the color of the walls. I can't find that tone anywhere. Of course, I'm looking on the internet which does not show the true color at times.

I have a treat for everyone! I stalked her profile. :D

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6008253/sears-kit-house-restoration-reveal

(She posted the DR color as SW Comfort Gray.)

How amazing is this house!

What a great room....full of personal touches and character. The built in buffet is to die for. Great job!

Wall paint is so much happier, bright and fresh; looks great with the white built-ins. I live your mustachioed man above the bar. The drapery fabric picks up the table wood tone in such an interesting way: adds contrast to the space but adds warmth and pulls everything together so nicely. Love the white bamboo chairs. Beautiful and stylish room.

Wow! What an amazing leap from one style to another and SOOO charming! Magazine worthy!

The people who want to nitpic it to death, I want to see their rooms....

@Jilly Thank you for stalking! My email was out of commission for a few days and I missed these messages. Yes, the dining room is SW Comfort Gray, which is less of a gray and more of a blue/green/gray. I'll have to post updated pics of the house sometime as I have since done a lot more to it!

@Yayagal The color is Sherwin Williams Comfort Gray

@mcarroll16 The wall color is Sherwin Williams Comfort Gray

Thank you!

@susan49417 The built in buffet really makes this room, and is such a workhorse in terms of storage. It was painted white but I stripped the top and repainted.

Thank you for the paint color Daensa

Stripping the buffet top was a brilliant choice, the wall color makes the floors really sing, and the curtains are the icing on the cake. You are quite talented.

God, I love a room with personality. Your dining room is DELIGHTFUL!

You have given this room a lot of personality. I like the way you used a mix of styles to make it interesting and lively.

You have brought life back into this room. The amount of light that now streams through is stunning. The second hand furniture looks great in this space. Hard to believe this is even the same room. What is the color that you chose for the wall?

If this is your style then I say you have done well.

Absolutely gorgeous!

There is a lot of information in the posts here, and several times the gorgeous wall color has been named as SW Comfort Gray. I know that color because DD has it in her living room ( from previous owners) and it's the most chameleon like easy to live with color. It's a graybluegreen.

I really love the new ( old) chairs. I love the room entirely but boy what a beautiful room.

I'm hoping the renewed interest in the thread is not for spammers. We'll see I guess.

Decorating does indeed take time! It's a major struggle to decide whether or not to release early photos of a project because the decor is so often lacking. But waiting one, two, three years! to take your professional photos? It just shows that you have to have patience if you're going to be an architect.