Dining room in your home is an area where you spend a lot of time not only while having your breakfast, lunch, or dinner but also when you have a conversation over the lunch or dinner table. It is an area of home where mostly all people of the family meet and chit chat and have their tea or coffee as well. So it is the liveliest part of the home and the décor of this area must reflect that liveliness. Here are some of the tips about how to decorate your dining area.
1. Rugs: Rugs look good in the dining space as they really ground the dining space. Your rug should be bigger than the dining table and be of the same shape as your dining table. If your dining table is circular use a circular rug and if your dining table is rectangular, use a rectangular rug. The rug makes the room look bigger.
2. Table: While choosing a dining table for your dining room, you must pick one that is not too big for your space and there is space to maneuver around that way your room doesn’t feel small. You should have at least 2 to 3 feet space at the sides of the table to get up and move your chairs. If you don’t have lot of space then you can get circle table or square table. Using a dark color table can soak up a lot of your light and brightness of your room. So you must use light color table.
3. Chairs: You can always mix and match chairs. It all depends on the style of the chair and your personal style. If your design style is more vintage or little romantic you have more freedom to mix and match all different kinds of chairs. If you are a minimalist type you need to stay closer to having one or two different kind of chairs. You can even have a bench type of seating at one side of the table. When you mix and match the chairs then make sure that the colors are of similar tone or shades.
4. Light fixtures: Similar to rugs, light fixtures also help define the space. It tells the eyes that this is its own little area and also on a practical front it lights up the table. Lighting in a dining room is very important because it is totally a piece of art, it’s the focal point of the space to really make or break the vibe of the space. You should have your light centered on to your table and it should spread around the table as well. Your light should be at least 35 inches away from your table surface.
5. Storage: Next important thing is organization and storage in your dining room. If you have really big dining rooms and you can fit extra furniture up against the wall, then you can put a buffet table or a credenza. You can also put your cupboards in the dining area for the storage and make it go with your dining table by matching the color and design of the two.
6. Decor: Another interesting thing to decorate the dining room is putting a center piece on the dining room. While picking a center piece just make sure that it is not too tall because then you can’t see people across from you. Another thing is you can put art pieces on the wall in your dining room to decorate it. You can also put some nice curtains on the windows in your dining table. Also put your curtains on the outside of the windows and not the inside of the windows, at least a foot out from the window that way all of the curtains when they are opened they will just sit right on the outside and they don’t take up any of your view or light from the window, they are functional and also frame the window which looks very nice.
Conclusion: If you want your dining space to look good then you have to pick your dining table and chairs in a very symmetrical way and then take care of rugs, lighting fixtures and art work on the table and the wall to complete the look.
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