#Chris loves julia dining room full#

So mentally and financially we were ready! I think part of the reason this decision was easy for us to make was we were planning on doing a kitchen renovation at this exact time in our last house. Those two photos are the same angle and it feels so spacious and so much lighter and brighter and exciting. To cut to the chase, in 30 minutes time, we decided to demo the entire kitchen, including the wall that separated the formal dining room and kitchen and expand the kitchen toward the front of the house. But I can totally see a large outdoor dining table in our future and several stools along an island. Not that it needs more of an explanation than “different houses and different seasons of life call for different things,” but we also no longer live by the 45 other members of Chris’s immediate family and my entire family is also no longer in the same spot so we feel okay about downsizing the dining space a little. (Above: First photo is the former formal dining room and below is the breakfast nook) This coming from people who added a 20 person dining room to their last house! At this point, the kitchen was open to a breakfast nook that was nearly the same size as the formal dining room and it was feeling so cut up and not functional. Both would hold the same amount of people and the same table size… just separately. I loved the swinging door and the transom above it, but we realized pretty quickly the kitchen separating two eating areas on either side didn’t make a ton of sense for us.

They told us it wasn’t load bearing at all. Not just in the middle, but around the perimeter, too! In our case, it dropped more than a foot around the perimeter! While we were having this conversation, they started asking about the door between the dining room and kitchen–if we wanted it wider or what. I’ve gotten a lot of questions about why I don’t prefer tray ceilings, and I think it’s just because I’d rather the ceiling be tall all around. The floors were already on the list, but we also added removing the tray ceilings in the former dining room and primary bedroom. NOW ONTO THE PAINT COLORS!! You can pin these or reference this article in the future.The day we closed on our home (the first week of May), we met with contractors to discuss what we would have them do before we moved in. Wall texture or surface paint is used on.

#Chris loves julia dining room full#

We (and most people who share their paint colors) always tell you if we don’t go full strength with a paint color, but it’s definitely a factor.Ĩ. You can ask the paint counter to mix it at XX%. Sometimes you love the tone of a paint color, but you want it a little lighter. Your phone/monitor calibration/white balance while looking at a color online.ĥ. Accents like hardware can also affect cabinet paint color.Ĥ. The color of the other things in the space. If the photographer used any sort of filter.ģ. Natural light (The direction the room faces) or light bulb color.Ģ. We try really hard to make our photos as true to life as possible, but here are a few reasons why the color may vary in your house.ġ. We get asked several hundred times a day “What paint color is that?!,” so we thought it would be fun to do a complete post with all the paint colors & sheens in our entire house listed on the photos to serve as a pinnable reference point. Have you ever spotted a paint color you love online and tried it in person and it doesn’t look the same? There are so many reasons this could happen.