Dining room update...

When I first started this adventure, I had grand visions of stripping all of the wood. 

After many Sundays spent stripping the wainscoting, plate rails and window frames... that gradually changed. It has taken me years to get to where I am. 

So, I changed plans... 

and decided not to strip the box beam ceiling. 

The main reason is that I would like to have a functioning dining room this year. 

Everything is piled in the center of the room. 

Table, chairs, hutch, china cabinet, etc. 

It will be nice to actually eat at the dining room table.

What the dining room looked like during my walk-through. 

All the walls, windows, wainscoting and plate rails 

are now stripped of paint. 

The plan is to sand all the wood down, 

and use an oil to bring it back to life. 

I would love to shellac it, 

but that would probably cost a fortune. 

After I paint, it is going to look similar to this. 

I am going to distress the beams, so the redwood peeks through.

With turquoise walls, instead of red. 

Wainscoting back to the natural redwood. 

I am also going to use rubber stencils in the corner of each ceiling square. 

Something like this. 

And quite possibly, stencils around the ceiling fan.

I may commit the old house lover sin of all time 

and paint the floor. *gasp*

I love white floors... just not this shiny. 

I like this too... 

I need to finish all the Spring yard work so I can commit all of my Sundays to working on this room again.