Dining Room

Here is our dining room right now.  It used to be my school room.  I'm still hoping to disguise a bit of school room by using the bookshelves for some educational stuff, maybe in baskets to hide the ugly.

This can serve as my more recent before picture.

Today I raised the bookshelves on 2x4 frames and put base trim around the bottom that matches the room.  Now they look more built in--no pictures yet.

But I'm also throwing around an idea.  Can you guess what it might be?  It's like a puzzle really.  I think it would be rather unique--a conversation piece as long as it's not too DIY junk shop in the end.  I hate to chop this baby up only to have it backfire on me, but it is a piece of furniture that we're not using--don't even have a double mattress.  I'm going to build something for that space anyway and this would be a cost effective, hopefully attractive option.

A bench from a bed.  Hmmm.