Foyer + Dining Room Updates

Like many people this year, we have been using the extra time at home to work on improving our space. Even though we’ve been here for two years, we are still making small changes and improvements.

I’ve never loved this foyer area – we’ve thought about putting up a wall to separate the dining area and maybe creating a drop zone, but I’m worried we’ll lose the light coming in. For now, we replaced the jute rug that was falling apart with a slightly smaller jute rug with tassels and a pop of color. Then, we painted the front door (it looked more orange in person) with a gray-blue color – Sherwin Williams Bracing Blue. We also had sticky privacy shields on the 3 windows on the door, and we removed those for more light. I can’t wait until we are finished with the baby gate (but also don’t want Avery to grow up).

We also moved the white cabinet that was there to a wall in the dining area and bought a foyer table – the Everett table from World Market. The last thing we are hoping to do is rearrange the gallery wall with some much bigger pictures so that it doesn’t look so wimpy on the big white wall. It’s taking us forever to decide what should go there!

The foyer and dining area are kind of one big room. The mirrored cabinet was way too small for the wall on the right, so we moved that to the corner where the plant is and use it as a bar now.

And we bought a giant framed print from Minted for the big white wall above the cabinet (I think we’re planning to hang it). I love the artist, Julia Contacessi!

In the dining area, we wanted to define the space a bit and break up the stark white walls with some texture, so we had board and batten added the big wall beside our dining table while we were at the beach last week:

I LOVE how it turned out! I’d put wood detailing in every inch of my house if I could!

And finally, we had our table sanded down (by a local painter) to the original wood color so that it would match our Riveria chars and look a little bit more modern farmhouse. It’s a couple of shades lighter and you can see all the details of the wood now!

What you do think? Can you tell much of a difference?