Where does that little borrowers door go?

What do you use the room for?

Do the sofas get any use? If not, why not remove them and have the table down the centre with sideboard on the side and a larger (much larger!) artwork on the far wall?

Hows the rest of the decorating going? You've not kept us updated!

It's a cute door isn't it! It's a deep cupboard, we have our dinner plates etc in there. We eat in the room, entertaining regularly and we usually move onto the sofa after dinner.

I'll post a little update on the living room decorating!

Does that cupboard go through to the living room? If so, is it the reason why the TV is pushed so far forward?

I'm guessing you're not looking to do any major work? You have a great space for a kitchen diner if that wall comes out.

It's a bizarre house, the alcove in the living room goes right back to the dining room, but there is a void space of about 25 inches between the dining room where the cupboard is the living room wall and a vent in the dining room wall!

Ahhh yes when we come to update our kitchen we are planning on opening the dining room up as our kitchen is really big and light, but that's quite a way off

The cupboard is about 10 inches deep

Brilliant ideas once again arc3d 😊 especially love the idea of putting a welcome mat down for the little door 😆 with regards to a rug, I was thinking of getting one to go under the dining table and one for the space where the sofas are, do you think this will work? And what size would the sofa rug need to be? That area is a walkway through to the kitchen.

I do plan to make a gallery wall, I just haven't seen any reasonable priced artwork that I like!

Yes two rugs could work well in that room. The dining room rug needs to sized so that the chairs don't snag on it. So either big enough for all four legs of the chair to sit on or small enough that the back legs don't snag, but not so small that the front legs snag. Does that make sense? I would go with a flat weave for practical reasons. The indoor/outdoor rugs are very practical with kids.

The sofa rug needs to be big enough for all the seating to be overlapping some part of it and a bit of it should stick out past the sofa towards the dining table but not so much that the bench catches on it. Because there's a walk way there I would again go for a flat weave. Something with a very low profile or at least a low profile edge. We have one in our hall and one in our living room, both are walked "over" i.e. you have to cross the entire rug to get to the other side. We've never had any accidents or trips, but if your worried then consider sticking down the edges that face the doors.

Buy artwork in lockdown?! With all this free time? You just need some art supplies and a few Bob Ross videos! Anyway with all the painting you've done recently, artwork should be a piece of cake!

Thanks that makes sense re the table rug, perhaps a patterned one for the table and a plain one for the sofa. Hahaha the only other painting I'll be displaying is my daughter's on the fridge! 😆 actually our neighbour is an artist, I could see if she can whip something up for me!

I love the yellow on the back wall. Any chance of painting the other walls? Then the dado rail and skirting white like the living room.

Totally unrelated, I noticed the little African cushion. Are you from there?

Charnelle, I've only just seen your comment for some reason, my sister brother in law and nephew live in Durban in South Africa, it's our second home!

Update on our dining room, it's still a work in progress so excuse the DIY mess!...

I've painted the wordwork and the walls grey, you can't tell from the pictures but it really brightens the room up! We've sold our dining table and we're on the lookout for another one but I'm unsure what to go for, as you can see we've got a persian style rug and I've got a retro gold lamp on order and I'd like to put dark bambo or wooded slatted blinds in the window, any other help would be much appreciated 😊

Oh and we're getting rid of the sofa so we'll just have the 2 armchairs

Update...