Generation Renovation - Dining Room & Library Reveal!

Generation Renovation

~ Dining Room ~
~ BEFORE ~


We decided to turn the previous owner's kitchen into our dining room (since we were moving the kitchen back to be closer to the family room). In this picture, we were in the midst of removing the cabinets:

~ DURING ~
Then we really opened up both rooms by tearing out the dividing wall:

~AFTER~
This is now what you see when standing in the dining room, looking where that wall and the furnace, used to be:



We kept the bay window, added hardwood (laminate) flooring where they had had carpet and voila:

~ Library ~
~ BEFORE ~
The above picture was taken while standing in the library. The library was the former owner's dining room:

Note the walls the color of aluminum foil:



~ DURING ~


~ After ~
This room is going to serve as mainly Austin's office/work space (I have my own office upstairs), and we have not finished configuring the furniture exactly how we are going to have it, but this is the stage we're at now:



This next picture was taken standing in the window bay looking towards the dining room. As you can see we kept the built-in shelving on both sides (I'm not sure why the walls look so blue in this one, they're really closer to the green in the other two pics):

And this picture was taken standing in the living room facing the large desk/shelving unit:



There you have it! We're getting close to wrapping up the main floor! Thanks for joining me on our extended tour!