ROOM REVEAL: Family & Dining Room

As I mentioned in a previous post, our house was built in 1927.  It is a colonial/craftsman style and the floor plan was not very open when we first moved in.  When you walked in the front door the stairs to the second floor were right in front of you, there was a narrow hallway that ran down the middle of the house, and on the left of the house were two small rooms separated by a closet.  It felt very confined, each room had a door and there was lots of dark beadboard.  
 

(This was the front living space, and there was a similar room on the back of the house that I apparently didn't take a pic of.)

We immediately knew we wanted to knock out the long wall of the hallway, and the closet/walls in between the two rooms to make one large "great" room.  A few months after we moved in that was our first big project, and then we refinished the original wood floors ~ which were beautiful but had not been cared for.  Four years later and LOTS of hard work, here is the finished "great" room - our combined family/dining space...

 

More of Strazz-Land to come!

~E