Painting The Dining Room Plus Build an Entryway
Painting The Dining Room Plus Build an Entryway is taking a long time. We are getting restless.
This spring we set out to repaint the dining room. I picked out the color and bought the paint.
We happened to see a how-to video about scraping popcorn ceilings that made it look easy. Since the dining room had a popcorn ceiling we really wanted to get rid of, suddenly we were removing it. It’s easy enough to do, but makes a huge mess you can see on Dining Room Project Step One is Painting.
So no painting got done.
And I’ve also shared we want to build an entryway. Now that the front room is in shambles, it’s the perfect time for this little project.
So no painting got done..
I scoured Pinterest for inspiration. I like to pin ideas on a Pinterest Secret Board to keep ideas handy. We finally settled on the entryway idea below. We started building and gathering materials, but nothing is solid yet. A partial column lays on the floor. A few skeleton boards are attached to the ceiling and wall beckoning to be something.
It’s summer and mowing the grass, trimming trees and other fixes got in the way.
So no entryway is built yet.
No painting either to the length of time I hope I don’t change my mind on the color; Palladium Blue by Benjamin Moore.
I like what I like. I still like this entryway idea, but I saw another design and my head got turned.
I said to husband, would this be easier?
Yes!
Now we have transom windows on our mind. This inspiration comes from Thistlewood Farms DIY Transom Window. KariAnne of Thistlewood Farms has a few how-to tips on the post to follow too.
She salvaged her window. We don’t have that option so we are exploring our options.
One idea I read about is using Plexiglas. It’s less expensive than glass but husband pointed out that it scratches easy.
A trip to a glass hardware store and ordering just the right size, then adding pieces of wood for partitions to create a transom window is what we are working out now.
Except, we spent this weekend sealing the driveway and then hysterically a tree upped and fell down.
So no entryway is built and no painting yet.
I may be singing All I Want for Christmas is a painted dining room and new entryway.
Update: We did find a Transom window.
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Our DIY Transom Window Entryway Idea
Transom Window Entryway Before and After
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