Extreme Makeover

We've been working on our dining room for way too long....but it's finally finished!!  When we moved in 3 years ago, the dining room (among other rooms) was hideous!  The previous owners had removed wall paper under the chair rail (which was way too high up on the wall) and totally destroyed the walls.  They dinged up and took chunks out of the walls and didn't repair but instead painted over it with a dark red paint that had sand in it to add texture to the walls, in the hopes of covering the imperfections.  It looked awful.  So between removing the wall paper that still existed, smoothing all the walls, moving the chair rail to a normal (lower) height, and adding crown molding and trim in addition to paint - it took us a while to complete it.  To give us credit, the room was basically done before Evan was born but once he came along, finishing the touch up work was low on the priority totem pole.  But it's now complete and I love it!  My husband is so handy!

See what you think - the best "before" pictures were accidentially deleted so this is the only one I could find.

And after...