IHOL Room-By-Room: The Dining Room

The next room I painted was the dining room. It's also the only room that's been painted 2X.Iloved the original color, but it didn't showcase the artwork on the walls and it needed to. The original orange had more red in it. It worked until I received the piece of artwork featured in this image (the painting on the right). It just blended in too much and I have coveted this painting since I saw it and it needed to be displayed appropriately.

The color the room ended up with the 2nd time I painted is closer to the original color that I intended the room to be.

As you can see, the painting pops much more with the lighter, naval orange versus the blood orange that the room was. The only challenge with the room being

this specific shade of orange is the fact that it meets up with the navy room...being from NW IN, many people ask if I am a Chicago Bears fan...I don't dislike them, but I sure didn't paint my house to honor them either. The rooms dictate the colors that they want to be.

That's one thing that I learned long ago ~ which has been confirmed by many a HGTV show ~ so many people cannot visualize a space. I can not only gauge how furniture will work spacially, but I can see color too. I knew it would look descent in there, just as I knew that the navy would work well in my living room.

There have been many dinners around this table, a few parties...all have been worthy of mention in their own way, but really what I will take from this room (literally and figuratively) is the artwork. I have been proud to showcase my sister's talent so predominantly in my home. Any new visitors to my home make mention of the art and I beam with pride in mentioning that they were all done by my sister. There is a moment of bragging that she was the youngest one to win a certain scholastic award for the one painting, of possessiveness when I mention that "that one" was the "Maid of Honor" gift (the BEST I've

ever received - no offense to anyone else!!), and the other of thoughtfulness at the fact that she painted a scene from our grandparent's house ~ one that we no longer have since we sold that house.

There are a couple of other items on the wall - all have specific thoughtfulness in them - a painted porcelain plate that a friend made for me as a going away present in Australia, a piece of ceramic from Italy that my brother & sister-in-law brought back for me from their honeymoon, and the Mrs. Dash packet. For that story, I will make you search my blog. It's entertaining...or so I am told.