Moving right along…

The hearth room/kitchen progress continues. Since I’m an avid cook and we entertain quite a bit, this room has been at the top of our list of projects for the new house. While we haven’t even moved into the house yet (June 22 cannot come soon enough), we spent yesterday afternoon there, armed with paint color wheels and tons of ideas. 

Here’s the room now:

Instead of making the hearth room a second living room, we’re going to make it our primary dining space. 

First came the table, the World Market Tradesman (a closeout special - woo hoo):

(Taken in our current dining room - excuse the second dining table/chairs in the room… they belong to our landlord)

Next came the light fixture:

And today, we added chairs (IKEA Henriksdal) to the “newly acquired” list:

The walls in the kitchen/hearth room are this heavily textured plaster and faux finish situation. I am not a fan. At all. But it turns out that sanding the walls down so they are smooth is pretty far outside our budget, so we’re crossing our fingers and planning to just have them painted. 

Say hello to Benjamin Moore Copley Gray:

Here it is in a room:

I’m in love. 

Still needed: new cabinet pulls, window treatments (curtains for the french doors and a roman shade above the sink), a wooden mantle to break up all of the brick, and lots of accessories to pull some color into the room. 

And that little detail about actually moving in… 

Previously:

The Inspiration
The Table
The Light Fixture