When we moved across the country, my husband promised me a dining room table. A big, heavy, seating-for-a-hundred, don't-look-at-the-price-tag, kind of table. We shopped around for days and I finally convinced my husband we NEEDED the table from Pottery Barn. It looked like an old barn door, or like it was made out of a bunch of rustic railroad ties. I was in love. We had it delivered the day before we hosted Thanksgiving for 11 in our Virginia rental, and it was glorious.
Just under a year later, we bought a townhouse down the street. It wasn't until we moved in that I realized our beautiful table wouldn't fit in the dining room (here is the picture from the listing, before we redecorated.
I wanted to use the attached kitchen space as a dining room, but as you can see below, it needed some work. I tore down the chubby angel wallpaper border (Seriously? Who hangs that?). My husband removed the track lighting, and we decided to stripe the wall. The first house my husband and I lived in together had a similar wall, and I thought it might make our new townhouse feel like home.
Adding stripes to a wall is a lot easier than it looks! I stretched a measuring tape the length of the wall and marked ever 18 inches, at three different heights. I then used blue painter's tape (ScotchBlue is my favorite) to connect the markings. Be careful, it stretches as you pull which can make your straight line curve a little. By taping on the outside of every other stripe, I accidentally made the alternating stripes a little more narrow. I loved the way it turned out! I found the canvas prints at Target and the rustic light fixture on Overstock.com. I am in love with our new space!
We added a green accent wall above the fireplace, and pale blue curtains that hang just under the window arches and puddle on the wood floor, just to brighten the space (picture to come soon). This is my favorite room in the house!
Click here to find the table and chairs. Pottery Barn almost always has a 10% off coupon floating around... take advantage for sure!