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Thursday, August 25, 2016

That Dining Room

So paneling was a thing back in the '70's. I despise paneling; it's dark, depressing and dated. The entire mobile home part of our place is paneling. My better half's grand idea is to pull it all off and replace it with real walls. Well, until that happens, I've been painting.

Painting is not my favorite pastime, all that prep work and mess, but it's been a necessary evil. My focus these past few weeks was painting the dining room. This is what the room looked like when we bought the house:

Not quite sure what those white panels (masonite I think?) were all about; they were held in place by black plastic strips. My other half says they were probably mirrors at one point. Glad they got rid of the mirrors if that was what they were.
In the interim, before I started in on the room this is what it looked like



Once I started priming, you could immediately see a difference in how bright it looked
Gimli photobomb.


I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with that awkward wall at the back, paint over the weird panels and plastic strips? Decided to try his idea; just rip it off and put up a wall. We used a pre primed board for it, not sheetrock. Anything was better than paneling. It was relatively inexpensive to put up.

The wall went up and we decided to do an accent wall a little darker than the other walls. I liked the idea, we probably could have gone a little darker, but this color coordinated with the lighter one.



Moulding around the doors, window and floor make the place look much nicer. Painted the black door too. Painting the ceiling definitely lightened up the room, though ideally removing those seam strips and spackling would be a better choice. Right now my goal was to make everything brighter and fresher. Somewhere down the road if I get the urge to do that, I will. I have to be in the mood :)

Not completely done with the dining room, the wall on the left needs attention. Not sure what to do there yet, it's another awkward space that needs to be addressed. Hopefully in the next couple weeks it'll come to me as to what to do with it.

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