Checking off another small project, our dining room! In waiting for the floors we held off on doing much of anything to the walls, but once the floors went it we replaced the baseboards and the rest is history.
Our drappy flat paint was past it’s prime days after we moved in and this entire space needed something fresh and bright. We replaced all the baseboards with 1x4 pine and decided to add more character and texture to the walls by continuing vertical board and batten to the ceiling similarly to what we did in our entryway. Since this is our dining room we wanted to give it a little more pizzazz and did so by adding crown on top of our board and batten. To accomplish this look we add a 1x2 board around the top perimeter of the wall for the crown to sit against. Had we not done this, there would have been a large gap between the vertical boards and the crown.
So, after the vertical boards were all in place, we installed our crown using the Kreg Jig Crown-Pro Crown Molding Tool. This kit makes installing crown molding yourself a breeze and we highly recommend it. We used it for our cabinets and saved ourselves hundreds of dollars. Now that all our boards were in place, it was time to caulk all our seams and prime the walls. For this project we purchased pre-primed pine boards rather than the premium pine boards and saved over $150 on this project!
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// After //
We painted everything with Benjamin Moore Super White to match the rest of our trim in the house. This room has officially been transformed from drabby to bright & classy!
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Paint | Benjamin Moore in Bright White
Lighting | Home Decorators
Dining Table | DIY
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