As soon as we saw it, our wheels started turning. I have never been happy with our formal dining. I never loved the furniture and we hardly ever use it. We got the idea to turn the formal dining room into a "wine room". Our good friend (Uncle)Matt is a carpenter and has built some things for us in the past, so I called him to see if he would be up for the challenge of the wine room and he said yes!
The first thing we did was buy 3 of the cork/bottle/glass holders that we saw in the magazine to go on the main wall. It would be our "wine wall". So, that is what was going on in the picture on New Year's Day. Matt hung the wine wall and we filled it up!
Over the years, Mikey and I (and anyone else that drinks wine at our house) have always thrown the corks up on top of the kitchen cabinets. We got them all down to help fill the wine wall.
Wine Wall Complete!
The next thing we found was the lighting. Thank you Pottery Barn.
Dad came up one weekend to help Mikey hang them. Chandelier complete.
New dimmers installed.
Now onto the sconces...oh wait...hiccup. We took the old sconces down and the shape of the base was different. The painters painted around the old sconces instead of behind. Ooops.
We had our painter come out and his estimate was a lot for a little bit of painting. So we came up with a solution. Matt built wood bases that mimicked the cutout of the wall to mount with the sconces and stained them to match the furniture color.
Sconces Complete.
The next project were the cabinets. Since Matt builds custom cabinets for a living this was a breeze. He came over and took measurements of the whole room and put them into his computer program. He designed it to perfectly fit into the cutout in the wall. This was the initial design.
Later we tweaked it to do less wine storage, deeper drawers and we added glass to the two outer cabinets.
Let the build begin...
It's getting there...
Time to stain...
It's finally in! We just need to install the glass!
Matt made custom wine storage drawers that are soft close. Everything is soft close.
I was able to move all of my glasses into the cabinets.
Now that the cabinet was in, we moved on to the seating. I struggled with the seating for a few days. Initially I wanted to do mixed seating like some chairs with arms and some without and possibly a bench. I also knew that I wanted the table to be counter height. This combination of all of these were not working. I decided to do counter height stools and finally found the perfect ones!
It was a process to put 8 chairs together...
These were the stain colors we played around with and Matt stained the legs of the chairs to match perfectly!
Chairs complete!
Matt had never built a table before, so it was a process for all of us. I knew I wanted a trestle style table, so I sent him a couple of examples.
This is the initial design he came up with.
We talked about this table for days...Obviously it was counter height. I knew I wanted to be able to fit 3 chairs on either side and have two on the end if we needed to seat 8. We played around with the dimensions for days. We taped if off and moved chairs around. When he brought the table, he brought it in pieces so that we could decide once it was in the room where the legs would go.
He also had a hard time with the top of the table. He had an amazing idea but it wasn't coming together. He went for lunch and was sitting at the bar waiting for his food and a the idea came to him from the bar top at the restaurant. He went back to his shop and it all came together. He sent us this preview of the top and we loved it! He used different types of wood for the panels. The colors are so pretty.
And just like that, the table was complete and it is beautiful! We have already spent more time in this room while remodeling it than we did in the last 8 years. We used it throughout the process and appreciated each step in the process. A big thank you to Mom, Dad, Mikey and especially Matt. It was a group effort and it turned out amazing. We absolutely love it!
I'll leave you with a before & after picture.
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