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A Dining Room With Board & Batten And Dark Blue Walls

The boldest color we’ve ever used on any wall is Martha Stewart’s Plumage (which we slathered all over our guest room walls). Long story short: we’ve loved it ever since. So when Jackie sent us her dining room makeover boasting lots of Plumage, of course we were all over it. Here’s her letter:

“When we moved into this house, the dining room started with just a table and the bamboo armoire. We didn’t even have dining chairs.

Jackie Dining Room Before

Over the last six months I prioritized finishing this room in time for the holidays. It is filled with DIY projects including art silhouettes, board and batten walls, mercury glass vases, jute wrapped monogram, and my favorite: the DIY linear crystal chandelier.

Jackie Dining Room After

After making the head chair slipcovers from tablecloths, I followed your tutorial to dye the side chairs a coordinating color.

Jackie Dining Room Angle 2

It took me two tries to get the right color too, but your story gave me confidence for the second round of dying.

Jackie Dining Room Angle

I have blogged about all the DIY dining room projects on my blog, aptly named Teal & Lime (I promise I do like other colors too). Thank you for your continued inspiration and over-sharing. I’ve really enjoyed watching you transform your new home.” – Jackie

Jackie Dining Room Silhouet

Since it’s no mystery why we fell for the teal and lime color scheme, we just have one question: what time is dinner? Thanks for sharing Jackie! Aren’t those silhouettes mixed with the curvy wood mirror fun? Can you believe they DIYed the board and batten walls and even made those slipcovers from tablecloths? Such an inspiring room! Let’s play the what’s-your-favorite-part game. Mine is the dapper dog silhouette and Sherry’s is the curvy wood mirror (closely followed by that homemade linear crystal chandelier).

Comments

  1. The Counselor Mom says

    Wow, what an awesome re-design! I love all the added touches, especially the wall board and the silhouettes. What did she use for those, it almost looks painted on? I also love the added height of the ‘H’ on top of the armoire.

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  2. Marsha says

    I literally got dizzy when I saw those slipcovers! And to think I bought the same tablecloth to use for my kids! Time for a re-trip to Target! It’s amazing what an inspiration you four are! The end of my day is always complete with a visit to your blog (I snuck a peek here at work…shhhh, don’t tell!) ;)

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  4. Denise says

    We just painted the walls in our bedroom in Plumage. I loved it immediately. Once it was finished my husband confessed his love for it too. Now we just need to paint our bookshelves and dresser white.

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  10. Erika @ thelindenlife says

    What a great make-over! I can’t believe she did so many DIY projects, all in one room! I really need to roll up my sleeves and get started with ONE of the projects that are continually running through my head. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  11. Allyn says

    I really love that color. At my last apartment, I painted my bedroom a really deep peacock blue/teal with lots of dark wood and white fabrics throughout. I LOVED it. Like, it made me happy every time I walked in. One day I’ll do it again.

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  13. Sarah says

    Love this! I need to do a silhouette of our dog now. thanks for the inspiration!!

    P.S. – You can always tell when a site crashed with YHL viewers flooding it… right now, none of the links are working! haha (not in a mean way, just in a oh-wow-this-is-popular way)!

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  16. Steph says

    I love the boards and batten. What is your opinion on it? Does this ever work in smaller spaces? We’ve been thinking about doing this in our eat in kitchen to sorta “dress up” the eating area. I am always just worried that it will look closed in!

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  18. bria says

    holy moly! I think home depot is about to run out of Plumage, HA! i’ve been debating painting our dining room or foyer this color for weeks now…this post may have sealed the deal, thanks!!

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  20. Tara S says

    This might be my favorite Reader Redesign of all time!! LOVE the board and batten with the color scheme. I was thinking of doing something similar in the new baby boy nursery (baby #2). Then I just saw on her blog that she has the same color scheme in her son’s nursery too. Just beautiful!!! As always, thanks for the inspiration.

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  23. Jackie says

    John and Sherry,

    I nearly cried when I started seeing the comments rolling in on my site. I was in the car when I found out you featured my dining room. My husband made me read the whole post to him as we were driving. Thank you so much for your wonderful comments and support.

    P.S. The plumage was actually leftover paint from our nursery redo. The nursery is a teal & like combo too, but with a totally different youthful and preppy feel.

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  28. Allison says

    Absolutely beautiful! I’m considering this color for the bedroom in my apartment now. The only thing holding me back is that when I move (in 4 years) I’ll have to paint over it. How many coats of white do you think it would take to cover Plumage??

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  33. Katie Lee says

    I love this dining room! Sitting around the dining table is such a personable and loving experience. It’s great that their dining room reflects their family and includes plenty of conversation starters. It’s filled with family and life. Love it!

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  37. toni from says

    I Love your dining room, it is simply breathtaking. When I pictured it initially it seemed like an odd color and maybe too much for a dining room, but with all of the white molding-it is totally pulled off. Congrats on choosing such a bold and charming color.

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  38. Tracy says

    I love it!! I love the balance created by the bright white moulding they installed as well. The lighting fixture is very elegant, but yet fresh & modern at the same time! Great post!

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  42. Laurie says

    Love…..well, everything! I used that color blue as an accssory color in my living room, paired with a deep, spicy orange. I did it two years ago but lately have been reading how this is going to be a hot new color pairing. Look at me, ahead of a trend! I have been debating painting an accent wall with the blue but wasn’t sure about it, or what would be a good paint to use. So, Plumage it is. Thanks for solving that problem for me. I am in awe of the DIY chandelier, I can’t believe they made that. I have seen similar styles for a nice chunk of change so good on them for making it. Swoon.

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  43. Jen says

    Great job! I love the board & batten with the teal walls. Great color combo. I’ve been planning to add board & batten to my master bedroom and I think I’ve just be convinced to try teal instead of gray walls.

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  45. Jackie says

    YHL readers are the best. Your traffic and wonderful comments have flooded our site and our host can’t keep up :( We sincerely apologize for the site going up and down. It is sporadic, so we hope you can be patient and try again to access the content. I also apologize for our slow response on comments. Our number one priority is to keep the site up for your to browse. We will reply to comments as the site is available.

    Thanks again for your tremendous support! I love reading all of your comments!

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