Before and After: A Major Dining Room Makeover by Nate Berkus

After sharing a peek of their Kansas City kitchen that needed major design help, Tim and Lauren Oliphant, the lucky winners of an LG Studio contest, were hand-selected by celeb interior designer Nate Berkus to receive a designer kitchen makeover. But after taking a look around, Berkus decided he couldn't stop at the kitchen; he wanted to create an adjacent dining room, too. "The minute I saw this space, which was just off the kitchen and being used as the children’s playroom, I knew immediately that the wall had to come down," he says. While the primary goal for the makeover was a complete floor-to-ceiling overhaul of the kitchen, including new features and top-of-the-line stainless steel LG Studio appliances, "it just made sense for us to then create a dining room where they could serve those great meals that Lauren and Tim love to prepare," Berkus says.