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I would say white wash the wainscothing for a perfect vintage romantic look.

Go free for the walls color, you could repaint them anytime if you don't like your "hospital green". I personally would choose a luminous vert-de-gris with a subtile hue of blue in it.
For a fresh look, blues accessories will look great with that color.

Do a little thing, once a week:
- DIY something
- Go to Goodwill or an other thrifstore (for furnitures and accessories)
- Buy a plant
- Set a party
- Cook a meal with your boyfriend

It don't cost much and I assure you, it helps! We move in a place who has 3 more rooms than our previous flat, but with the same budget, so I know what is it.

After 4 months, it still have echos when we make a party in the dinning room and the living room, but every week, there a little something special I find or DIM and our place begin to look like ours.

Here is some temporary and almost-free tips:
- Recycle pictures you like in magazine or old books (or print pictures of you and your firends & bf) and frame it all together. (There is cheap frame at Goodwill)
- Buy a fabric on sale and make a table runner (it will cost ou max. 10 bucks)
- Put some candels on it
- Find something you like at Goodwill and start a collection of it (it can be plates, anonymous artworks, hats, teapot, mirrors...) and display it. For myself it is vintage lamps. A good choice because it warm up a room in elegance.
- Put a carpet and hooks at your entryway
- Find a desk on Craiglist for your computer

Finally, I LOVE your four different chairs in your dining room. That is a good start!

Goodluck ;)

If you pass by Montreal, Quebec, we have plenty of them in locals bars, but we call them Distroboto.

Here is some infos and pics:
http://www.distroboto.archivemontreal.org