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A Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover

A Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover

Last updated on: June 21, 2017 at 7:00 am by Jennifer Fancher

A Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover 2017-06-21T07:00:02-05:00 Jennifer Fancher

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Happy First Day of Summer, friends! I’m oh-so-excited that you’re here for my Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover. If you are hopping over from Niña and Cecilia’s perfect outdoor space on this Summer Home Love blog tour, welcome to Noting Grace!

Before we begin, I have to come clean. I have never really loved my dining room.

Even though it was pretty, in reality it was very cold and uninviting.

Our Dining Room needed help!

A Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover - I'm sharing how I created a cozy dining space with a tiny budget!

It was a cold, sterile kind of room where your voice reverberated for days like an echo chamber. Okay, it wasn’t that bad, and was actually killer for dropping some rocking vocal riffs, but not so good for creating an inviting dining experience.

With our budget being next to nil after investing in our master bedroom makeover, I had to put on my penny pinching hat to figure out how I can create a cozy dining room without spending too much money!

It all started with a rug.

This rug to be exact. (affiliate link if you fall in love with it too!)

Well, sort of… If you read my last post – the true inspiration actually started with one gorgeous, vintage blue flow platter from my grandmother that put the idea in my head, which is what made this rug catch my eye. But I couldn’t do it.

This rug sat in my Amazon shopping cart for months. I hemmed and hawed about stepping out of my neutral comfort zone and adding a touch of color. What if I don’t like it? What if it’s a huge decor blunder? I kept on with the what ifs until…

Until I saw the email that let me know that the price had dropped!

And do you know what? I jumped!

I did it – and threw all neutral loving caution to the wind and hit that “Complete Purchase” button. While I waited with baited breath for it to arrive, I started painting my knotty pine hutch just knowing they were going to be besties. (See that vintage, blue platter on the bottom? That’s what started this whole train a-rollin’.)

Painting Knotty Pine - Noting Grace shares how she hid her orangey hues in her pine hutch with this painting technique

Delivery day finally came – I unrolled the rug and was immediately overjoyed!

Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover - how to create a cozy space when the budget runs out.

Happy dancing was done that day! I mean, it was so perfect – marrying together the gray tones in my walls and the blue hues in my hutch.

Are you ready to see this budget friendly dining room makeover?

Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover - how to create a cozy space when the budget runs out.

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It’s amazing how adding just a touch of warmth with color instantly transforms the room.

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And just as I suspected, my rug and hutch played so nicely together. The blue hues seem to accent my newly painted hutch even more! It makes those framed vintage marriage licenses pop!

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Topping my hutch are some of my favorite pieces of tarnished silver that I’ve collected junking or are family heirlooms that have been given to me.

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I also framed each side of my bay window with some vintage silver trays. I hung them adjacent to each other with Command Strips which takes the weight of the tray without the worry of damaging my wall.

And speaking of my bay window…

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Our dining room was cold and uninviting. Here's how we created a cozy space that makes you want to linger with this Budget Friendly Dining Room Makeover.

I finally added curtains to soften the room. This window and view was what made us buy this home. To be able to see those picturesque 10 acres across the street from us (and not have to do any of the upkeep on it) is my favorite way to wake up and enjoy my coffee, admiring my view.

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I’ll share soon how I hung these curtains with a fun DIY curtain rod, but the main objective was to soften the look, but not block any of the view. For the tie backs, I purchased some blue and white striped trim from the upholstery department at Hobby Lobby and just love how it looks!