July 2010
It was now July and we had moved into the dining room. I want to start by saying this is my favorite room in the whole house. It was probably one of the reasons I agreed to buy the Castle. The room is almost a square, which is my favorite shape for a room. There are two large windows on the East and a set of small English Cottage style casement windows (you know the ones you see on Masterpiece where the farmers wife puts her head out the window and calls everyone in for supper, those kind). The room has an original built-in and a small arch over the windows. This is probably too much information, but I am an architect and I get excited about these things.
I wanted to make the dining room feel intimate and cozy, the kind of place you can sit with friends after dinner for a long time. We decided to go with a warm dark chocolate color in the space. This ended up being harder then we thought. Did we want a blue brown, a red brown, or a purple brown... ummm kinda just wanted dark chocolate. In the end, we chose Benjamin Moore Barista and I am very happy about it. This room had a lot of damage to the trim work and we ended up tenting the doorways off and sanding for many many days. This was also the point in the project where we stopped hand sanding and bought an orbital sander... why we did not do this earlier? I can't really tell you, but it makes life o so much easier.
After a week of sanding we got about priming everything in the room and applied the Barista, it went on like fudge. It was so delicious looking I felt tempted to eat it several times when it dripped on my fingers. Over share, maybe? This is a much smaller room than the living room and only required two coats, phew. We removed the tenting and got to work painting out the trim each night. I was really excited to see this room happen because we have never had a dining room and it felt very grown-up to have one. Also, its right off the family room and I have to look at it every day.
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