Before & After: A Dining Room Refresh

Adrienne BreauxHouse Tour Director
Adrienne BreauxHouse Tour Director
For more than 10 years, I've led Apartment Therapy's real home content, producing thousands of house tours from around the world. Currently, I live in my maximalist dream home in New Orleans, Louisiana, with my partner, a perfect dog, and a cute cat.
published Jan 18, 2014
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Dining room with black table, two chairs, white cabinet, and wall of framed photos, labeled "before" in orange.
(Image credit: Cortney Peguese)

Sometimes it’s just a simple decluttering, a few fresh coats of paint and a less-is-more attitude that completely transforms a room from kind of dark to light and bright, as it did in Cortney’s dining room.

(Image credit: Cortney Peguese)

From Cortney:

Our family spends a lot of time at the dinner table. We (mainly me) were looking for a change. I really wanted to brighten the area and free up the wall space that our hutch was on. We found the new dry bar on Washington, DC Craigslist for $20! In my eyes it was a miracle, it’s in great shape and it’s the perfect size for our small space. We then painted the walls with Behr paint in cloud white. I painted the dining table with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. The whole process took about 2 – 3 days.

Read more on Cortney’s blog.

Thank you Cortney!