The Dining Room and Hallway: Part I

The house as we found it.

This corner photo really captures the essence of the room. Not one, not two, but three mismatched types of paneling. Two clashing brown walls with 2 mismatched white walls. Mismatched crown molding. Three types of mismatched baseboards (not shown). Mismatched door frames. and it continues...

....70's glass doors over a closet that smells like urine. 70's light fixture (which, by the way, is 2 1/2 feet off center). And of course, popcorn ceiling.
Here is what the dining room looked like when my mom was visiting: packed with furniture and beds. We all slept there because we were refinishing the wood floors and couldn't put furniture on them for 3 days. Did I ever tell you my mom is a saint?

Above: a view of the hallway looking towards the living room. (This paneling was also on 1 of the walls in the dining room, opposite the other dark brown paneling. Real nice.)

Below: a view of the hallway looking towards the kitchen. The dining room is on the left, the door to the cellar is on the right.

This is what the hallway looked like when Chris took off the unfortunate brown paneling. Apparently somewhere along the line the wall was added...creating the hallway and a very awkwardly placed bedroom.

This picture makes me laugh...so I had to post it again.