Colorful Happy Home Dining Room REVEAL

I am SO happy about today!! Today is my COLORFUL Happy Home Dining Room Reveal! I LOVE color. Color makes me happy and I love finding ways to bring it into our home. I had an epiphany about my life this year and I decided to bring the happy color I love into my life. So when a bunch of amazingly talented bloggers contacted me about doing a room makeover based on color, I was thrilled. This fun project is called “Color Lovers” and everyone is making over one room in their home using COLOR. And TODAY are the room reveals. If you love COLOR – like I do – then be sure to check out all of these rooms. There are going to be all kinds of great ideas of how to use COLOR in YOUR home too!!

All of the links to those COLORFUL room reveals are at the bottom of the post – be sure to check them out! I am SO happy with my colorful room. Here is the inspiration board I created and shared last month:

Colorful Happy Home Dining Room REVEAL

For this challenge we teamed up with THREE amazing companies: 

Minted 

The Mine

Birch Lane

These companies have BEAUTIFUL home decor items. Minted has amazing art. You can find any style you want and the art is PHENOMENAL. Birch Lane is an affordable shopping destination with classic designs — I am in love with the chairs I picked out. More about those below! And The Mine has thousands of stylish furniture and home decor items – you can find virtually anything you could possibly want on their site. Their selection of rugs is phenomenal.

I based the whole room off of this gorgeous Minted Ivy Limited Edition print.

I love how abstract it is. And the colors are kind of beachy and beautiful. I love the greens, blues, with accents of white and bright pink.

Colorful Happy Home Dining Room REVEAL

For seating I brought in these beautiful Lennon Scandinavian Side Chairs through Birch Lane. I love their lines and the simple modern look.

I paired the chairs with a gorgeous Basset Dining Bench I found at The Mine.

Then I reupholstered the top with pink and white buffalo check material.

I matched the buffalo check fabric to bright pink table runners I also found through Birch Lane.

The rug is from the Collection Expression Area Rug from The Mine and I love the color combinations in it.

There are so many different shades of blues, greens, aquas and turquoise. I think it pairs perfectly with the Minted print.

Colorful Happy Home Dining Room REVEAL

Instead of placemats or a table cloth, I used the bright pink runners on the table. Birch Lane also has napkins that match the runners. And I paired the runners with lux gold silverware, also from Birch Lane. I love the way the silverware picks up the light on the table. It’s so pretty!

I also brought in a very simple console table —  Safavieh FOX4220B Fox Manny Console Table from The Mine.

I plan on having LOTS of family dinners in our dining room and I love having a console table to put food on so that there is more room on the dining table. I also love having a lamp as a warm light and it reflects up onto the Minted print at night which is beautiful.

I chose the Barclay Table Lamp from The Mine. I think it is really different and beachy. I love the square lampshade and the gold accents. The inside of the lampshade is foiled gold and it gives off a warm, gorgeous light at night.

Colorful Happy Home Dining Room REVEAL

Here’s what the room looks like as you enter it from our family room. I think the wood chandelier that I made goes really well with the wood barn doors and along with the colors in the room it gives the room a warm beachy feel. You can see my little succulent garden in the corner. I have managed to keep most of those plants alive so far LOL!

The wire plant stands are available through Birch Lane. I absolutely love them.

I also think they would make fun quirky nightstands too.

Here’s what the room looks like from our front entry. I love that it is one of the first rooms that visitors see when they come into our home. I think it reflects our warm, happy, colorful home!

Be sure to check out these amazing bloggers and their COLORFUL room REVEALS today!! 

Kelly Elko 

In My Own Style 

Inspired By Charm 

DIY Showoff 

Southern Hospitality 

Fox Hollow Cottage 

Four Generations One Roof 

Jennifer Rizzo 

Duke Manor Farm 

Have a COLORFUL day!

xoxo

A big thank you to The Mine, Birch Lane and Minted for the beautiful items for this room makeover!

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I love chandeliers. I would put them in every room in my home if I could – ha!

When we redid Hannah’s room 4 years ago we took out a really plain white ceiling fan and put in a really inexpensive chandelier I had bought from Target. We installed it in the ceiling and put a pretty ceiling medallion at the top.

So when we started this room update, I knew I wanted to do a little update on the chandelier.

Here are some easy tips to refinish a chandelier. Go pick one up at a big box store or a thrift store and redo one in your home.  Note – be sure to have an electrician or expert install your fixture.

• Spray paint the chandelier. It’s so easy and fast. Prime it first and the paint will adhere better. For best results, spray on 2-3 thin coats of paint, letting the paint dry between each coat. Then attach the chandelier to the ceiling.

• Then add beads. I ordered some really inexpensive clear beads from Ben Franklin online – $3. Once you get the beads up, you can’t even tell they are plastic.

• We strung the beads on 24 gauge wire which is thin but it will hold it’s shape. (note – we started off with 26 gauge wire, but it didn’t hold its shape, so we restrung the beads on 24 gauge wire). Measure the length on your chandelier of where you want to add the beaded wire and add 4 inches at each end of the wire. We also added some colorful beads that I had in my bead stash for a little extra color.

• Hannah’s chandelier has 3 lights, and I added 6 strings of beads to the fixture. It really just depends on how you want your chandelier to look at the end.

• Once all of the wires were strung, I attached each string to the top of the chandelier, looping the wire around a rung at the top and wrapping it around 3-4 times to keep it secure. Then I wrapped the end of the string to the base of each chandelier arm and wrapped it around the arm 3-4 times, pulling the beads taut. Once it was secure, I cut off any extra wire at the top and bottom. I did this with each of the strings.

• After the strings were attached, I shaped each wire strand so they all matched.

• If you don’t like the look of the metal on the chandelier. You can take your chandelier color and spray some into a plastic cup and then take a small paintbrush and paint the wires the same color as the chandelier. I might do that.

She really loves her little chandelier update and room update. Yay!

Have a Wonderful Day!!

xoxo

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