Pass It On Through

When we bought our house back in August, one thing that I knew I wanted to changed was the wall that closed off the dining room to the living room. If you sat in the dining room you felt closed off to the rest of the house. We talked about taking the whole wall out and some other options. After all was said and done, Jonathan and I decided to create a pass through. We measured it off and marked it, then Jonathan got to work. 

The first cut:

So happy the electrical wires came from the basement:

We ended up buying a sawzaw for this little project and I had the pleasure of getting longer blades one day:

Here is a very unfinished look at the hole from the living room side:

We did have a few set backs.We tried to like a thicker molding, but it just didn't do it for us:

So we decided to use 1x8s and we love how big the pass through looks with this type of frame:

This past Sunday afternoon, Jonathan painted the trim bright white:

And here is the semi-complete version from the living room side:

Here is the dining room side that still needs some work but look at that handy man in the picture. Jonathan did a GREAT job completing the pass through! So proud of him:

Here is what we still have left to do:

1. Paint the dining room. We painted it the blue color that you see in the picture. We like it, others like it, but it really doesn't go with the rest of the house. You can see the green (My FAV...Apple 5) that I painted on the right side of the pass through. I should be able to get it completely painted by the weekend.

2. This may not happen immediately, but within the next couple of months we are going to install a piece of granite in the pass through. It will have a over hang on the dining room side that will allow for additional seating (3 bar stools will fit there) or to be used as a buffet area when we have people over for dinner!

I will post some more pictures once the dining room is painted!!