We’ve spent the last couple of weekends doing phase 1 of the dining room makeover. Being an interior designer, I am surrounded by the most wonderful materials every day at work and probably two years ago I fell in love with this particular wallpaper and knew one day that I HAD to use it. When we moved into our house and started dreaming about what it could be, I suggested that we use “my” wallpaper in the dining room. Surprisingly, Chris said yes! I know wallpaper is a pretty cringe worthy word these days, but I really love how it turned out! Here is how the dining room looked before:
The walls in that room are pretty textured so step 1 was smooth out the walls. Chris also wanted to install crown molding to match what we have in the living room. So we had a fair amount of prep work to do before we could install the paper.
My very own handy man!
Crown molding up, walls smoothed. Check and check!
Time to paint. Chris leaves the painting up to me and my steady painters hand genes. Thanks Mom!
The first and easiest piece of the day! Thank goodness there were only 2 corners!
The finished product! The base color is a metallic silver with matte yellow flowers over it, it looks different from every angle and I LOVE it! 
I think we spent close to an hour on that corner! Wallpaper is NOT easy!
The finished product! And, I caught Chris cleaning the windows in the background...is he too good to be true or what??
Here is a sneak peak at phase 2:
