~ Re-Painted Breakfast Nook ~

Hello friends!....in my last post I mentioned that we also re-painted our breakfast nook and I wanted to show you the before and afters, but first I gotta say that I know vertical blinds are a no-no and I am going to get a drapery panel. I've found the one I want at Country Curtains and it will hang from rings behind the valance and will be able to slide to the right just like the blinds. The only time the blinds are closed is overnight, the good thing about them is in the morning (that sliding glass door faces east) I can keep most of the hot sun out and just open them a wee bit for light, with the drapery it will be all or nothing, oh well!....now for the pics.

BEFORE: it was a dark taupe up top and sort of a candy apple red down below and it just never wowed me.

AFTER: so now it is Lenox Tan up top (same as the dining room) and Cottage Red (also Benjamin Moore historical) down below....the new red is a darker more country red, not sure if you can tell the difference in the picture or not but it looks way better to me in person!....I am standing at the kitchen sink taking this picture, that is bar countertop you are seeing in the foreground.

Here are a few more pictures of the breakfast nook:

My most primitive piece is this old stepback cupboard.

The drysink is really old too, probably 1800's.

I'd love to know the age of these chairs....I bought the table in one antique shop and the chairs in another....I found out that the table was common in the twenties and thirties but these chairs are so interesting to me and I know nothing about them, they seem really old.

I'm taking this next picture from the family room....the kitchen is painted taupe and I think it works nicely with the new tan, I just didn't want everything the exact same color....and the little hallway, as we call it, is the same sage green as the family room, there's two bedrooms and a bathroom on that side of the house.

Now here's a real hoot!....this is what the breakfast nook looked like when I was into cottage....quite a difference isn't it, ha!

Ah now this is much better:

Ok that's it for now....have a lovely Monday and a great week!