From Dilapidated Covered Porch to Enchanted Private Dining Room

Our next project has begun and I need to tell you ALL about it because I am so freaking excited! If you recall our home had a dining room and we turned it into our Colourful kitchen renovation, which we love and couldn’t ever imagine it any other way. But now, we need a dining room. So right off of the kitchen, very conveniently, lies a covered porch. When we toured the home they used it for storage and maybe hanging out. It had a couch in it and a treadmill that was folded up. The owner kept the room closed off in the winter because it wasn’t warm. I thought and thought about how to reconfigure this home and thus “Dilapidated Covered Porch to Enchanted Private Dining Room” was born.

When you look up dilapidated in the dictionary you get this:

di·lap·i·dat·ed

(of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect

Synonyms: run-down, tumbledown, ramshackle, broken-down, in disrepair, shabby, battered, beat-up, rickety, shaky, unsound, crumbling, in ruins, ruined, decayed, decaying, decrepit; neglected, uncared-for, untended, the worse for wear, falling to pieces, falling apart, gone to rack and ruin, gone to seed

Ok now we’re inside! Recognize the door and window on the right? Those both lead directly to the kitchen as you saw in the first photos. We have taken out the window between the two spaces. A front window broke early on in the renovation and we used it to replace the window and now we are really used to the open space between rooms. It’s a great view to our new dining room. I’m not sure yet how we’re going to finish the casing in the window. Here’s a shot of the window covered with plastic, but you can see that it will be a great sightline to the dining room. I can’t wait to be able to take pictures from that angle in the kitchen!

We’re also going to take out the door and run windows seamlessly across the adjacent wall too! So it will be just like the above inspo photo! We don’t need the door because it opens onto our driveway and we don’t use it. It was actually sealed up by the other owners who didn’t use it either… BYE BYE Yuckola door and hello symmetry! No worries we have another back door that we use to access our yard.

Spray foam insulated below the floor
Painted the floor, ceiling, and radiators white
Had measurements taken for the windows
Ordered our dining table and chairs
Selected light Fixtures

Order the windows in the next couple days
Order the lights
Remove the door and install all the new windows
Trim out the windows, walls, baseboard, and ceiling details
Repaint the entire space
Have electrical run to the ceiling for the chandeliers
Hang the lights
Figure out Window Coverings
Move the furniture into the space!
Eat dinner at a table for the first time since we moved in JULY! Woohoo!

Add vents to exterior roof when we replace the roof and spray foam the ceiling

I love that this image has a ceiling detail that takes into account the light fixture…this is on my list!
Next I love the pop of colour…another possibility!
The windows, however, would be what ours would look like if we just replaced ours. Instead we are switching from double hung to casement for larger windows.
I love the wainscoting below the windows.
The overall bright, inviting, WOW FACTOR of this space is definitely what I’m going for!! Image Source: Artisan Signature Homes

Have you seen my last dining room reveal? (pictured below) You gotta check it out!

Comments

Sixty-fifth avenue says

February 8, 2018 at 11:06 am

Swooning over the dilapidated space already! Such great bones to work with. And your plans are going to make it gorgeous!!

- leslie says
  
  February 8, 2018 at 12:50 pm
  
  Thank you so much for calling its bones great!!! YAY! It’s so fun to say dilapidated isn’t?! lol!!!
  
Kristine says

February 8, 2018 at 6:20 pm

Yay! Love the windows in the inspo photo and can’t wait to see the progress!!!

- leslie says
  
  February 9, 2018 at 9:38 am
  
  Thank you! So glad you like it! New windows will be divine!!! thank you so much for the comment and can’t wait to share more with you!
  
Allison says

February 8, 2018 at 11:37 pm

Some open shelves in the former window between the kitchen and dining room would be fun – you could display pretty glassware, etc and also access them from both rooms.

- leslie says
  
  February 9, 2018 at 9:37 am
  
  YES!!!! totally I love that idea and I have a friend who suggested that too…just trying to figure out how to stop things from being pushed through accidentally…but I love the idea of the coloured glass in the light so much!! great idea!
  
KID says

February 9, 2018 at 2:12 pm

Darn, I was secretly hoping this was DONE already! I’m excited to see the transformation. Why did you decide to switch from double-hung to casement windows? Is the functionality better? Or just aesthetics?

- leslie says
  
  February 9, 2018 at 2:17 pm
  
  Oh my gosh me too…I’m dying to have a dining room! Well I think in general casements are better functionality, but there is also more glass without the big break in the middle and I’ve had both and I feel like the elements stay out better with casement than double hung and we’re really trying to make the room as warm as possible. I hope we made the right choice!
  
Mary says

February 9, 2018 at 4:55 pm

I can’t wait, it sounds devine and I’m so happy you’re keeping the exposed brick.

- leslie says
  
  February 10, 2018 at 5:14 pm
  
  Yes for sure! Exposed brick is pretty dreamy!! Thanks so much for following the journey! I wish it was done already! LOL!