I am so excited to share that we have finally start to add our dining room moulding ideas!
We’ve been in our home for 2 years so it’s about time 🙂 I asked for this project to be kicked off for my Mother’s day gift so my husband definitely could not say no to that!
As we were designing our home, we had a few places where we thought it would be fun to jazz up the ceilings a bit vs regular old ceilings!
We have slanted tray ceilings in both our master bedroom and our 2 story open foyer. We had planned a tray ceiling in the dining room as you can see in the floor plan below. During the build process, we updated the tray ceiling to be a rectangular shape so that we could add a coffered ceiling later! Since we made this decision early in the process, all the lighting was pre-planned to accommodate the coffered ceiling too!
Similar to our mudroom project that was recently completed which you can read about here, it’s taken us awhile to get to these projects because of how much work is involved! But as always, my hubby is so talented and is up for the challenge!
Dining Room Moulding Ideas
Now, let me tell you a little bit about why now. Well, it all started with a little project idea I had… I love the wainscoting moulding and was looking for a simple wall to try it out! So I found this skinny wall at the bottom our stairway to add the moulding.
We loved how it turned out it so much. Kris said that it is almost like a continuation of the kitchen cabinets and made the wall look finished – and this is all before it’s even painted! It’s really going to be amazing once painted.
So this was actually Kris’s idea to continue it into the dining room. Usually the ideas are mine! I wasn’t so sure because of the large buffet cabinet and couldn’t picture in my head how it would all be spaced. But then I saw an Instagram post that stopped me in my scroll of a dining room feature wall! It was perfect for our space, and although we would tweak ours and do it a little bit differently, I now had my vision!
So once we agreed that we liked it, I said, well given the order of the projects we have, I actually think this one should come first. Thinking further, we then said well, if we are going to move all the furniture and mobilize the paint sprayer, then we should just go ahead and get the coffered ceiling done too. This conversation happened a few days before Mother’s day so I said, ok, that is what I want for Mother’s Day! It’s a lot to be doing this project and our master bedroom refresh at the same time which you can read about here. But I’ll be glad that we pushed through and got these both done before Summer comes to Maryland.
Since the first wainscoting wall was already done, we had already picked out the moudling for that. I went to Home Depot and Lowes, each twice and ended up getting our moulding from Lowes. I’ve seen a lot of other special order moulding online and you can also get some really cool types online! We are doing the same moulding in the dining room. Here is the design!
Dining Room Coffered Ceiling
The coffered ceiling planning process was a little more complicated. We looked at products, measurements in auto cad, the depth of the ceiling, the width of the squares, the shadow line options – so many options. I really was not expecting it to be so many decisions but as with any custom woodworking project, the options are really endless!
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The first weekend, he was able to get a lot of the coffered ceiling done! He spent time moving out all the furniture and our light fixture, picking up materials, lots of measurements and calculations! Here is a progress photo!
The second weekend, he completed the remaining trim out for the ceiling and the feature wall! We have a special timelapse camera and I have slowly been publishing some fun timelapse IGTV videos if you want to check those out and follow along here.
Also, did I mention how hard it must be to work above your head on the ceiling?! And how hard it must be to build something you have never built before? So proud of my husband for being able to build this gorgeous ceiling and wall which we will enjoy for years to come!!
Now he says it’s going to take him an entire day to caulk and I believe that! So much caulking.
After caulking, we will prep to paint. We had a ton to learn about painting a coffered ceiling!
We have a Sherwin Williams commercial paint sprayer which will make the paint process actually pretty easy. We are going to try one of their new paint products too so I am excited!
I already have my light fixture linked here.
I have a few new décor items to add to this space as follows:
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- Artwork for the feature wall above the buffet. Since I got the buffet over a year ago, I’ve never put any décor above it or on it so it’s time! I’ve got a really large rectangular piece of art picked out that I love – linked here.
- Two fancy chairs. Chairs that the kids will not be using because they will be light colored linen fabric chairs! These will flank the triple window in this room which I think it will be so pretty! I have my eye on something like this.
- I have not yet picked out the décor accents but these will be for the table and buffet top! That will be the last step as the room is coming together!
Fun fact, I actually don’t have chairs in my dining room. When we use the dining room, I bring my kitchen chairs in which are in the next room over. I use my dining room a lot for party serving so I like to have it open so that people can easily walk around the table. It also keeps the kitchen itself from being all cluttered! When the dining room is not in use, it looks bigger without all the chairs. I don’t know, it’s what I like! And its functional.
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We are more than halfway through at this point so I wanted to give you all an update. I am so excited to to share the big reveal will all of you very soon! Please let me know if you have any questions – I would love to hear from you!
Here is a fun little video of our dining room project!
You must check out the dining room reveal!
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I like the idea about using the kitchen chairs to do double duty. Great to do if you have a smaller space.