Hello.
I want to turn our dining room into another tv/kid room etc.
This is our homes layout.
Older cape style. 3 bedroom house, kids bedrooms upstairs and our bedroom (us being the parents) downstairs off the kitchen and living room.
1 full bathroom upstairs.
off the kitchen is our dining room.
The kitchen has a pantry, which at one time was the kids small space playroom. Worked very well, except the kids wanted their toys in every room.
so i have converted the pantry back to its origanl purpse.
our basement still as rock walls, so it cant be used for a living space at all.
its a one car garage.
i love our house very much, we have been renovating new walls , outlets etc. everything brand new. But i have noticed we still need more space. rather than adding on. i look to the dining room, which is pretty (walls not new tho, this is our very last room to finish) i look to this room and want to make it more of a tv/room etc.
i have a large hutch in their already, thats going to stay.
We have a dining room table , the leaves fold over (its called hitchcock furniture) and i put that to the corner of the room for now.
Our style is all hitchcock furniture. i have a buffet in their, to which i placed a tv for movies for my kids.
i have taken our hitchcock bench (placed 2 pillows) and covered the whole thing with a brown blanket. kinda to resemble a couch.
Should i just buy a couch then? i have started to look and they are expensive. The one i want is beige in color and from raymour and flanagan store. i would like to have just a loveseat in their. but the price is like 600.00 so the husband says no. too much money right now. i also have a nice area rug( we have origianl hardwood floors) and a rocking chair and small table. Besides a large tote full of all the kids toys. i also have a rack for jackets on oneside of the room. and kinda a musical section, that has a music stand for my violin and my kids musical instruments. it just feels very cramed.

What am i missing that should be in there? i really like the space already.
so after all that being said, has anybody else done this too? if so do you have pics?
i am going to see if i can upload a picture to give some idears?
you see we rarely use the dining room table, and it seems like just a wasted room. i hope this makes sense.
any input is certaintly appriciated.
please excuse the terrible spelling.
andrea-

I want to turn our dining room into another tv/kid room etc.
This is our homes layout.
Older cape style. 3 bedroom house, kids bedrooms upstairs and our bedroom (us being the parents) downstairs off the kitchen and living room.
1 full bathroom upstairs.
off the kitchen is our dining room.
The kitchen has a pantry, which at one time was the kids small space playroom. Worked very well, except the kids wanted their toys in every room.
so i have converted the pantry back to its origanl purpse.
our basement still as rock walls, so it cant be used for a living space at all.
its a one car garage.
i love our house very much, we have been renovating new walls , outlets etc. everything brand new. But i have noticed we still need more space. rather than adding on. i look to the dining room, which is pretty (walls not new tho, this is our very last room to finish) i look to this room and want to make it more of a tv/room etc.
i have a large hutch in their already, thats going to stay.
We have a dining room table , the leaves fold over (its called hitchcock furniture) and i put that to the corner of the room for now.
Our style is all hitchcock furniture. i have a buffet in their, to which i placed a tv for movies for my kids.
i have taken our hitchcock bench (placed 2 pillows) and covered the whole thing with a brown blanket. kinda to resemble a couch.
Should i just buy a couch then? i have started to look and they are expensive. The one i want is beige in color and from raymour and flanagan store. i would like to have just a loveseat in their. but the price is like 600.00 so the husband says no. too much money right now. i also have a nice area rug( we have origianl hardwood floors) and a rocking chair and small table. Besides a large tote full of all the kids toys. i also have a rack for jackets on oneside of the room. and kinda a musical section, that has a music stand for my violin and my kids musical instruments. it just feels very cramed.


What am i missing that should be in there? i really like the space already.
so after all that being said, has anybody else done this too? if so do you have pics?

you see we rarely use the dining room table, and it seems like just a wasted room. i hope this makes sense.

please excuse the terrible spelling.

andrea-