Turning a living room into a dining room

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Today I am sharing how we revamped our rarely used Formal Living Room into a Home Office that is now one of my favorite spaces on StylishRevamp.com

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Nothing says “dated” like yellow-y beige walls. Pair that with frilly lace curtains, a shiny chandelier with a traditional silhouette, and brown-orange trim, and you’ve got the dining room in Sav Gordon’s 1957 ranch as it looked when she bought it. The house “had been owned by only one family and had only been minimally repaired over the years, meaning it was almost completely original,” Sav explains.

Let’s face it: as much as we’d all like to think of ourselves as the sort of people who throw dinner parties all the time, the formal dining room is mostly obsolete. So what’s a modern family to do? You can set up a dining table and chairs in there and then let stuff collect on the table (I’m pretty sure this is the default), or you can take it one step further and transform your dining room into a multi-purpose space that you’ll use every day.

Our Dining Room to Library/Game Room Update I have another room finished and ready to share with you all! This photo below shows the formal … Read More

No one will guess these pieces came from IKEA!

Formal dining is so two thousand and late. Now, it's all about the conveniently located cozy dining nook. More and more people, couples and families are turning to this alternative way of dining as their main source for all things eating and entertaining.

We took on a dining room makeover this past month which included a wall feature, layout change and chandelier from HVLG come see the before and after.