All trends tend to circle around, and gold hardware and accents are back! They’ve become a popular way to warm the icy color palettes of the last decade. A few small replacements are all you need to totally transform the ambiance of a room. If you leaned hard into silver-grays as a way to get […]
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Eclectic Style: Making Your Home Reflect You
24
Jul
Jul
Eclectic style is often misunderstood and underrepresented. To some, there’s a method to the madness; to others, it’s just madness. It can be difficult to pin down as a style, partially because there is no singular furniture type to its name. It takes from modern and traditional, farmhouse and avant-garde, minimalism and maximalism all at […]
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Ditch The Chandelier: Better Dining Room Lighting For An Open Floorplan
30
Apr
Apr
Chandeliers are the most traditional choice for lighting a dining room. But these days, dining rooms are a far cry from traditional. At-home dining in general has a more casual feel than it did in the past. Now, cooking, eating, and socializing all happen in the same space. Add to that the fact that many […]
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Get The Look: Six Ways To Rock A Round Dining Table
28
Nov
Nov
Open floorplan kitchens had such a huge impact on the design world that for a good long while there, traditional family-style kitchen tables didn’t just fall out of popularity, they disappeared from a lot of homes. After all, with island seating for quick casual meals and a full dining table to entertain, small four-to-six seat […]
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How To Squeeze Extra Seating Into Your Small Dining Room
07
Oct
Oct
If you live in a small space, entertaining a group of any size can be a challenge, to say nothing of trying to host a crowd. Being a little shy on square footage presents a particular problem in the dining room. In other areas of the home you can more or less get away with […]
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Dress Up Your Dining Room With Upholstered Dining Chairs
02
Jul
Jul
When you think of formal dining chairs, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a traditional upholstered chair. But while iconic antique chairs with all their bells and whistles are certainly a great way to create that elevated, formal feel, these days they’re far from the only option. Even ignoring chairs made entirely […]
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Distinguish Your Dining Space with a Dining Table Rug
27
Jun
Jun
The dining room is becoming an outdated place of the past as kitchens open up to include a dining space within their walls. While we can all appreciate no longer feeling so cramped when cooking and eating, many are now seeking new ways to distinguish the two spaces when there aren’t walls there to do […]
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Get The Look: Building A Formal Dining Room With A Posh Contemporary Feel
08
Nov
Nov
Dining rooms occupy a somewhat odd space in the contemporary interior design world. In terms of popularity, they’ve long since lost to open floorplan kitchens and greatrooms, which means these days a good dining room is rarely going to be a design spotlight. But the reality is, lots of us still have dining rooms, which means […]
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Get The Look: Use Your Dining Room For Entertaining With A Built-In Bar Buffet
10
Oct
Oct
The trend towards open, dine-in kitchens has, in many ways, made traditional formal dining rooms obsolete – especially if you aren’t knocking down the walls of one to create a barrier-free floorplan. But while the bulk of entertaining is getting moved to kitchen islands and greatrooms, that doesn’t mean your old dining room has to […]