Dining room makeover: PART 1

Y'all remember a few weeks ago I was dreaming about dining rooms. 

Well, I knew it would be awhile before I had the time/budget/weather to work on it, so daydreaming was all I could do. 

However, yesterday I got quite bored and stir crazy (the day before I was super sick and didn't leave the couch ALL DAY - ick.) so I decided to paint the dining room wall. I know, weird thing to do when bored, but I had the itch.

I've been wanting to do it - I used the left over paint from my bedroom mini makeover.

I was worried the dark color would make my already tiny dining room space look even smaller, but actually....quite the opposite happened!!!

The dark wall gave the space some depth and really made the black and white photo pop! My camera got screwed up (even worse than normal) so the camera and lighting are terrible, but here's the picture for Step 1 of my dining room makeover:

BEFORE:

(an old picture from when my kids were in highchairs)

AFTER:

Ugh - I'm so mad at my camera....but I promise it looks GREAT!

Dining room inspirations

Today has been a weird and long day for me.

So, I've been daydreaming to keep my mind off of other things...

I was looking at some dining room inspiration for my bland room:

My original idea was to use the dark chocolate brown I had left from my bedroom makeover to paint the one back wall.

However, my second thought is it might be too dark in such a small space. Because all the pictures I was drawn to looked like this:

 

and this:

And I've noticed I'm really drawn to this green color....

Hmm...the wheels are churning.

What do ya think?