Our Black, White & Orange Dining Room

My dining room was once stuck in the 1970’s mode.

When we bought the house it came complete with brown paneling, chair rail, grape vine themed wallpaper boarder above the chair rail, carpet – yes carpet on the floors – and a very gold crystal beaded chandelier.

I wish I had been blogging at the time so that I would have taken a picture of that fancy beaded chandelier that looked nothing like a modern home should have.

Since then I have replaced the chandelier with a more modern pendent and have been slowing changing the dining room to a more modern black, white and orange dining room.

Update from 2018 – this room is currently undergoing even more renovations so I have updated this post to keep readers updated. Be sure to follow along when it is done.

And…even more in 2021. This is the project that never seems to be done.

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The first two years we lived in the house we removed the wallpaper boarder, painted the top part of the walls in a harvest shade of orange, installed tile flooring, and hung a new light fixture.

As a reminder, this is what the dining room looked like before I got the ~~inspiration~~ overwhelming urge to paint the dark paneling white.

In hindsight the orange paint just made the room that much darker.

This picture also shows the beginnings of a gallery wall that I quickly changed my mind about. Some walls are just too long! I have probably changed the wall décor in this room at least 3 times since we moved in. I just can’t seem to find the inspiration for the perfect look so I keep working on it.

For now, we have gone from a dark, dated room, to a more brighter and updated dining room.