Dining Room Makeover Home Renovation

It is finally time to share my dining room makeover – just in time for Thanksgiving! Since this room is really the center of our home, there were a lot of things we changed to improve flow and light and overall design. This is what we started with in our dining room makeover:

This room leads from where people will enter our home to the kitchen where everyone always congregates. Number one thing is to remove the closet/wall separating everything! This involved also fixing the ceiling and floor where the wall was.

This is the other side of that wall as seen from the kitchen. It’s a big closet which ended up being a catch-all because it was in a weird spot of the house. The skinny hallway leads to the main floor bathroom and a dark, unwelcoming door to our lovely porch. Number two thing is to replace said door with a big patio door to let in more light and allow easier access to the outside.

Even though this room is painted light gray, it feel dark with the drop ceilings and mismatched trim. Everything has to go! Our home has nine foot ceilings and I definitely want them reinstated in here!

Home Renovating

Removing the wall and opening up the patio door space was a VERY messy job. I thought we were living in such dust and debri and wished to never experience it again.

Aaannnddd then we started drywall. I thought it was dusty from demolition – oh boy! In the midst of drywalling this whole space I wondered when my house would ever be clean again? Living through a home renovation is not for the faint of heart.

I think video is really the best way to explain all the changes and improvements we worked on in here. I made a great recap you can watch to see the journey we took over the summer to update this space!

Dining Room Makeover Reveal

Now that the wall is removed, the patio door is installed, and the walls, ceiling, and floors are all patched up, we are done! I DIY-ed as much as I could in this project, but we did hire out actually removing the wall and laying our floors.

I love that now when you enter our front door, you can see right through to the newly renovated kitchen!

There’s so much space for flow and movement! Our patio door gets used A LOT by our kids going in and out. We also use this extra space as more dining when we host big gatherings.

Our tablescape was fun to create for Thanksgiving with neutral colors and natural elements in my design. While we didn’t upgrade our furniture for this dining room makeover, it feels so fancy in this grand space with this adorable table setting.

In case you missed it, I completed a DIY modern chandelier for our dining room makeover. I’m proud of how I made our black kitchen cabinets work with our dining space by these accents and the big black wall.

Please pin if you were inspired! If you’d like to see other renovation posts, please click on their icons below in my related posts. If you loved this room transformation and want to see more, start on my bedroom makeover!