Dining Room Makeover: Before and After Photos (Finally!)

I FINALLY have photos of the dining room makeover to show you! I'm going to give the whole rundown of what went into this before I post the before and afters.

If you haven't already read it, I suggest reading "The Story of Our Home" before you go through this post. We have a manufactured home (a.k.a. trailer, double wide, whatever you want to call it).

First, I REALLY wish that I had good "before" photos. I didn't think this project was going to turn out to be anything big, so I didn't think to take any pictures beforehand. Instead, I had to go through the photos on my computer and find pictures that showed the dining room before we did anything to it. So, the before photos kind of suck.

Also, I'm going to show the rooms we made over one at a time, because they aren't all done yet. We are almost done with the living room and kitchen, but I ran into a small issue with the molding and I want to fix that first. So, I will show these rooms in stages, starting with the dining room (which we basically used as an extension of the living room).

First, to go over everything that I did in the dining room:

Remove small wall attached to bar top

Obviously, we removed the cupboards that were being held up by the wall

Removed the textured/popcorn ceiling (here is a tutorial/post all about that)

Removed the crown molding

Taped/mudded the ceiling joint that the crown molding was hiding

Patched and repaired holes/nicks/etc in the walls

Sanded and painted the ceiling

Prepped, caulked, and painted the molding around the window

Built a new counter for the bar top

Replaced window blinds 

Replaced light fixture

Primed and painted table and chairs

Replaced flooring (Jerry did this--doesn't it look amazing?!)

Replaced heat vent registers

Bought secondhand barstools

Installed and painted floorboard trim

Painted a huge chalkboard wall clock (I'm working on a DIY tutorial for this now--it's a lot more work than I thought it would be to explain!)

Built a couple of shelves for the cats to sit on in front of the window ;) 

Here are some photos of the progress and the big reveal!

Here are some progress photos from along the way...

To see all of the posts so far about the renovation, you can scroll through them here. This has been a huge project, and I can't wait to reveal the rest!!