Bookshelves Makeover + A Dining Room Update

One of the bad things about traveling around the globe is the jet lag that has you falling asleep at 4:00 in the afternoon. But one of the good things is sometimes you are wide awake at 7:30am ~ like I am right now! And what better thing to do than show you a furniture makeover in the dining room right?

Now I know you have all seen this mini bookshelf makeover on my new Facebook cover photo, but now you get the details.

In addition to the many many things we’ve been doing in the dining room, I came across these little shelves to add to the one wall. They weren’t originally part of the plan, but you know how that goes.

Enter the dirty wood-colored before.  It was 30% off furniture day at the thrift store when I spotted these so I got them for a low $7. I liked the little rounded leg and I needed some storage for my dishes.

And since I wanted the shelves to be durable, not to mention I had to cover the dark wood, I pulled out the trusty Rust Oleum Cover Stain Primer-Sealer after a quick sanding.

Two coats of different colored paint later, one for the inside and one for the outside and viola! A bookshelf makeover.

I used the Benjamin Moore Advance white on the outside. This is now my go-to white furniture paint. It dries wonderfully and is a beautiful bright white.

The inside of the shelves got a coat of the grey that I used for the kitchen, which is Chinchilla by Martha Stewart.  I wanted my white dishes to stand out on the shelves.

Some of the chargers are chalkboard {have you ever painted any chalkboard chargers, it’s fun} and the soup tureen I picked up for $8 while out thrifting one day, can you believe it? The 16 white plates are Mikasa restaurant ware that I got at a dish factory sale. I love them. They are my entertaining and everyday plates. Nice, simple, white plates ~ perfect.

Here was the spoiler shot. The shelves are in a corner in the space, in front of the pocket doors between the living and dining rooms. Our old house has all kinds of neat things like pocket doors, which we actually use.

For the top I got a lamp and horse from HomeGoods. HG always comes through when you need an accessory or four 🙂 Speaking of, my local store has doubled in size, yahoo.

Now don’t go to HG looking for a blue horse because he doesn’t exist. The horse used to look like this.

He got a little Rust-Oleum’s Night Tide which I have used many times before to brighten him up for his dining room debut. I love my horse! Carmel would be proud 😉

And just like that, another piece of the dining room has come together.

Sharing with POWW 100: Furniture Link Party at Primitive and Proper, Tuesday’s Treasures at My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia, Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Creek Cottage

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