Dining Room Makeover

Since buying our house I have slowly been trying to decorate a few rooms here and there. The first and most important rooms were our kids bedrooms so they would have a fun and playful space to call their own. Next we decided to tackle our boring dining room. Once our little guy was born it became more necessary to have play spaces upstairs and downstairs, plus their rooms were overflowing with toys. This is when we decided to turn our dining room into a playroom/office. How often do you really use a dining room anyways? We actually probably got more use out of it than most people by having our neighbors over for dinner, but really it was unnecessary since our kitchen has a large eating area.

Here is our dining room before. Really no style and quite plain.

 

And here is our new playroom/office. 

 We love the transformation, and get MUCH more use out of the space. I should let you know I am kind of obsessed with Pottery Barn, so unfortunately it wasn't cheap. Pretty much everything in the room is from Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids, from the light fixture to the rug. I think they will hold up more than any cheaper option though, or at least that's what I'm going to keep telling myself. This is also a visible space downstairs so I didn't want the playroom to just look like a junk room. Ideally I would have liked to add curtains, but the thought of little kids hanging off of them didn't go over too well in my mind so I decided to skip that for the meantime. Now I just need to redo every other room in the house to match this new decor!