Picking Up The Right Furniture For Your Dining Room

Having the right kind of furniture in your dining room is vital for the comfort levels and efficiency of your dining room. It's more than just buying chairs and the dining table installing them in your dining space.

Several factors are playing at a time here.

1) Size and shape of the dining table
2) Number of dining chairs and their texture
3) Supporting furniture such as cabinets and other storage facilities

Apart from these factors one factor is always overlooked.

Before you finalize your dining room furniture it is necessary to correctly analyze your space and get the perfect pieces. While analyzing the space you should look for

1) Overall volume of the dining space - This includes it's dimensions and height. Many times dining rooms have double heights because the upper lobby overlook into the dining space from above. In such cases the volume becomes suddenly important and even a so called big table looks tiny.

2) Wall finishes - Wall finishes and the existing decorating themes play a vital role in picking up the dining room furniture. The furniture you picked must blend well with the existing interior design theme.

A big dining table in a tiny space will not only feel congested but at the same time will make it difficult from efficiency point of view. But this big table in a taller dining space will look tiny because space itself has expanded. It is not just about occupying a number of people on the dining table at the time of the gathering.

If you have a big dining space but only two people living in the house then most will think that let’s buy a tiny 4 seate dining table. But with that small table most of the space in the dining room will remain unoccupied giving the feeling of emptiness. That’s why you must take into consideration the whole volume of the dining space while picking up the furniture.

That is why while picking up the dining room furniture take into account the space into which you will be placing it. The first and the foremost though and preference should be to efficiency. Then comes it’s shape, size, color and texture so that visually the entire set up is appealing.

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Decorating Ideas for Taller Dining Rooms

There are many ideas and methods to decorate taller rooms using visually enhancing methods. Which ideas you apply in your dining room depends upon many factors such as

1) Existing decorating theme of your dining room.
2) Existing decorating theme of the entire home
3) Amount of natural light coming inside the dining space
4) How open is the dining space.

When a dining room is taller in height the adjacent walls consume a lot of volume and the entire dining volume becomes big. While decorating such big spaces it becomes necessary that enough respect is given to smaller decorating elements like wall finishes, and accessories used on them.

To define an identity to such taller room one simple idea is to use a chair rail molding that runs along the periphery of the dining room. This chair rail normally is used to protect wall finished from getting damaged because of chair backrests touching the walls and spoiling the color paint or the wall paper.

But alternatively it is used to form the proportions in a taller room. According to chairrailzone.com the height of the chair rail from the finished floor level is good at 30 inches. At this height the chair rail molding is visible and helps visually define the upper and the lower portions of the taller walls effectively.

One more advantage of using the molding at this height is that you can have different fishes for both upper and lower sections creating interest in the dining space. Chair rails can be even painted in the end to visually blend with the rest of the interior design theme of the dining room.

Normally if the dining rooms are taller, then they are bigger in floor area as well. In such cases the height below the chair rail is used to store cutlery that can be either used or even just displayed using glass cabinets.

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5 Dining Room Decorating Accessories To Shift The Ambience

A dining room is a place where the entire family gathers and has food. The truth is apart from the food it;s place to share thoughts and the good memories with each others.

To help you to create an ambiance which is relaxing and fresh so that the food eating becomes a joyful experience it is necessary that you make use of accessories that will help you achieve your goal. You can try any one of these accessories and feel the difference.

1) Use live plants - No doubt, live plants are one of the most underused accessories in interior spaces. A shade loving live plant can immediately bring life into your dining space. If you pick a flowering plant, then nothing like it. Just a small plant in the window opening will make the room look fresh all times of the year.

2) Area rugs - Before you put that dining table, consider putting a carpet or an area rug below it and feel he difference. The kind of warmth a carpet can produce is just unmatched. If you have kids at home then there is a possibility that they will drop food particles on the floor and eventually on the carpet. To prevent this make sure to pick one which you can easily clean.

3) Wall accessories - Walls play a major role in dining space to form the kind of ambiance that's required. You can have wall paintings to create a mood. Instead of one big painting you can use a few smaller ones and create interesting arrangements.

4) Indoor statues - Statues are other underused decorating ornaments. Statues can provide a scale to the dining space and a sense of life immediately in the vicinity of the statue.

5) Lighting accessories - using artificial lighting you can drastically improve the look and feel of the dining area. Many people prefer chandelier above the dining table to visually bind the dining space and at the same time provide the necessary lighting when the family is together.

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How To Drastically Change The Look & Feel Of Your Dining room

Are you bored looking at the same dining room every day?

Are you looking for a drastic change in the look and feel of your dining space?

Well, actually it's not that difficult.

There are many creative ways to do this and get immediate results. Most people think that it will require lots of money to make this happen, but that's not true always.

It's true that by spending some money and redecorating your interior spaces will drastically improve the ambiance, but it's not necessary.

As simple change in any of the existing decorating elements, will shift your entire perspective of looking towards the interior spaces.

Here is an example.

First you have a look at your dining room and note down everything you have arranged in it. This may include

1) Window treatments
2) Furniture and their arrangements
3) Carpets and their color, texture and fabric used
4) Lighting fixtures
5) Accessories such as flower vases, wall hangings, wall paintings
6) Wall treatments used

Not try changing any one of these existing or even rearranging them and you'll be able to feel a big shift immediately.

Simply try to rotate the dining table itself to a different angle and see the difference.

If you have paintings on walls remove them and try a different painting or keep it blank and see how you feel. By breaking the everyday monotonous picture of your dining room, you can create a sudden impact and feel different emotions in the existing set up almost immediately.

Look,dining room design and decorating is an art and you even you can learn it step-by-step by learning and trying different things. Don’t be afraid to try to new experiments on your own.

Who knows there is a genius designer hidden inside of you :)

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Easy Dining Room Decorating Ideas

If you try enough, you can come up with lots of dining room decorating ideas. Instead of relying on a professional designer you can come up with amazing ideas on your own.

If you observe closely there are many possibilities in your dining room where creativity can be applied. If you check right now the dining room is filled with chairs, rugs, window treatments, table cloths, walls and the treatment on them are potential area where you can play a lot.

1) For example the windows can be treated with blinds, curtains, drapes of different types and immediately change the look and feel of your dining room.

2) On the other hand you can spend money and completely change the way your walls are treated to drastically change the ambiance in the dining room.

So sky is the limit when it comes to decorating your dining spaces.

If you want to completely and drastically change the design of your dining area then it is wise to change these before you install lighting in it. There are many challenges that can come up while you are decorating. For example if you want to shift the design theme from a vintage one to a modern one then everything from the color schemes, furniture, wall finishes and even fabric textures, floor finishes will have to be changed. What really matters is to have a definite idea of what you want to achieve.

If your dining room is the extension of the kitchen then it becomes necessary that you create a visual balance between the decorating theme of kitchen and dining area. Any drastic changes will definitely help here because the dining area will demand more attention.

Lighting plays a vital role while decorating your dining area. The more light you allow in the dining area, less dampness will remain and it will be a healthy area. Clear natural ventilation and enough light is a strongly recommended in the dining.

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