Our Family/Dining Room...Repainted and Sectionaled!

I don't really think sectionaled is a word but lets go with it.

Our family/dining room is coming together...there's still lots to do/purchase, but I'm just soaking up the recent changes. Here's where we left off. A purpley-gray color on the walls and no furniture in this room since we moved in (over 2 1/2 years ago)...

After a coat of primer and a coat of this light gray color called Moonshine by Benjamin Moore (color matched in Behr paint + primer in one)...we've ended up with this...

A little while back, we installed these bamboo roman shades. I love the natural look against the gray. Purchased these from Home Depot...

And here's our new to us super comfy sectional...

This lamp I purchased from Target (currently on clearance), I didn't buy it for this room, it was bought purely out of love. Photos don't do it justice. Yeah, I fell for the color of this lamp and the glass base. Where's it going to end up? Maybe our bedroom, I'm not entirely sure...but one things for sure, it's gonna go somewhere, and I'm gonna always love it.

Overall, it's a little bit brighter in this room, huh? As far as paint color, it was a toss up between Cement Gray and Moonshine (both by Benjamin Moore), but Cement Gray appeared to have a little purple in it, so Moonshine ended up winning.

I was so surprised how having the sectional in here actually made the room feel bigger, not smaller. I thought it was going to take up a lot more space but it turns out this is a hefty sized room. Very happy with that.

So what's ahead for this room? Let's see...

• Paint the end table...mainly because there's a lot of different wood colors already in the room, from the dining table to the piano to the shades...
• Get a larger scale lamp for the table (the one on there is a little too short and squatty, but I have another place for it in our house)
• Overhead lighting for sectional area?
• New blinds for large window and curtains to frame it out
• RUGS!!!...one for the sectional area and one for under the dining table
• WALL ART!!!...above the piano, in the dining room, and above the sectional
• Lighting for piano
• Pillows for couch with fun pattern
• Crown molding...it'll be the finishing touch. No idea how to do this yet, but it'll be worth it in the end.
• And as much as I hate to say this, we'll need to paint the ceiling and trim whenever crown molding enters our life...because after painting everything in the Moonshine color, it showed me how off white all of our trim truly is. Sad day...

So there's a little update of our family/dining room...trust me, I've be scouring the internet looking for rugs already. I've been dealing with the toss up of getting a nice rug that's a little more pricey but will give us more years, or a lesser expensive rug that we may need to replace in a few years. I'm just thinking of Finn and Jack and how much worse it would feel if a stain occurred on the expensive rug, instead of a lesser expensive rug. Yeah, I think I'm leaning toward the lesser expensive rug. It may not last as long, but I think it makes more sense for me.

Oh and I am loving that I am no longer walking into the house and seeing this...

But now this...

Yep, I can handle that.

And yes, that is our Christmas wreath.

:)