Dining Room Designs
Suit your Lifestyle
Some dining room designs can be a way to add some drama to your home decorating especially if you like to entertain and allow you the opportunity to use colors and styles that you may not consider in the rest of your home giving you reason to do something glamorously.
But then in some homes the dining room is the least used room in the whole house and one of the most expensive rooms to decorate.
Ultimately though, you have to do what is right for you and your lifestyle.
Modern
Start with a fabulous focal point, a painting or sculpture of a grand scale to create dining room designs that are modern.
The environment of a modern dining room is elegant and refined with minimal furnishings that have clean and simple lines and could be a mix of period furnishings with contemporary.
The finishes in the room are not at all glitzy but do gleam with metals, glass, stainless steel, and brushed aluminum. Lighting in the room thrives on the dramatic and placed on a dimmer with lighting that can enhance and focus on any art work that is used.
Keep the color palette serene and monochromatic with possibly a pop of color for drama in an oversize vintage print on the wall.
Traditional
Create a glamorous space for great meals with the uniformity of style and a bit more tradition with influences of French country or
18th century Chippendale
or Queen Anne.
A formal style dining room in the traditional flavor will have furnishings of period furniture in mahogany or cherry in glossy finishes, and possibly the use of a china cabinet showcasing your antique china and crystal stem ware.
This regal setting is farther complimented with formal lighting in the way of a crystal chandelier and wall sconces illuminating handsome art on the walls with an oriental rug on beautiful hardwood flooring.
Casual Dining
Casual dining room designs are welcoming and well loved and are meant to be used.
Elements of casual dining are a mix of furnishings that relaxes the space with easy care fabrics, materials and rougher finishes that invite touch such as
distressed furniture,
wicker, rattan, pine and even metal or stone.
Use different style chairs from the style of the table, or each chair in a different color, or one chair at the head of the table different from the rest.
Slip covered chairs, floor length table covers and vintage linens all lend themselves well to the surroundings of this much loved casual dining space.
Intimate Dining
Create the perfect atmosphere if you don’t have a separate room for dining room designs, with eight spare square feet for a table for four.
Put to use that drop leaf table that does double duty as a console table and be flexible with your dining by the use of diverse chair styles. It could even be a love seat pulled up to a table or an ottoman on castors.
Pull up chairs to the round table you’re using as an end table, cover it with a floor length cloth for an intimate dinner for two.
Bring in a bit of the outdoors with a garden table and light weight wicker chairs for a casual brunch.
An architectural detail in the room like a fireplace, book lined shelving or a French door makes a nice backdrop and a special setting for an intimate dining space.
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