Changing a Spare Room into a Diva Den

This 7 days, we’re transforming a dull dining space into a diva den.

Home owner Robin Stafford hasn’t employed this area for dining considering that she moved into her house, so we’re likely to convert it into a distinctive house for her to relax and unwind with her daughter. 

Paint Accent Wall

To develop a focal position for the place, we paint a vertical striped accent wall. The vertical stripes attract your eyes up the wall and contact consideration to the tall ceiling.

Initially, we take out the chair rail so the room looks as large as it feels.

Future, we patch the nail holes with drywall mud.

Soon after all the holes are loaded, we place a new coat of paint on the wall.

Subsequent, we measure out the width of our stripes and mark the lines with a pencil. Then, we use a level to make straight vertical lines for the tape to go in excess of. we tape our vertical stripes on the wall. 

For the stripe colors, we’re going with tan and white. To make painting simpler, we mark the slats for the tan stripes with an “x.” 

We use painter’s tape to mark off the stripes on the wall. After the tape is in spot, we use the wall color to seal off the tape so none of our stripe colour receives beneath.

We then implement two coats of our stripe shade and get rid of the painter’s tape. 

Convert Dresser to Bar

Robin has a dresser she inherited from her mother that we’re capable to reuse and reconfigure for a bar.

We clear away the base two drawers to make a significant base shelf for bottles. Then, we choose out the large major center drawer and transform that space into a wine rack. 

We maintain the best side drawers for storage room. 

We clear away the base rails that dived of the old base drawers with an oscillating observed.

Future, we reuse the wooden on what applied to be the back again of this dresser as the finished inside of of our bottom cabinet.

To hold it in spot devoid of applying a bunch of nails, we use Titebond Original Wood Glue. 

Right after we reconfigure the dresser into a bar, we key and paint it a new enjoyable coloration.

Set up Ceiling Drape and LED Lights

To give this diva den a calming lounge come to feel, we’re draping some sheer chiffon curtains at the best of this tall ceiling for a cabana really feel. 

To get this impact, we employed three curtains and nailed the panels to the ceiling.

For some enjoyment lighting, we mounted LED light tape alongside the ceiling. These lights adjust shade with the simply click of a button. 

We also:

• Built a day mattress
• Added shelves
• Spray-painted planter gold
• Spray-painted wall plates

Post-Creation Ideas

Robin’s formal dining room experienced terrific natural gentle, tall ceilings and lots of place, but it experienced no actual goal. So, it turned a capture-all for home furnishings that had no other residence. Simply because it was proper upcoming to the entrance doorway, it was the pretty to start with point her attendees noticed.

But now, the space has a objective and temperament.

The daring stripes on the accent walls draw you in and intensify the top of the ceiling, which would make a assertion of its own with the gentle LED lights filtering by means of the sheer drapes. This ceiling tends to make it clear this home is designed for rest.

Of system, the custom day mattress matches in perfectly with that plan. It is straightforward, cozy, and complements the striped wall guiding it. The dresser-turned-bar provides a pop of shade to the place and pays homage to Robin’s mom even though it serves a extremely functional intent.  

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