Are your table legs black. My thought would be to paint that little edge of the table black to tie in the table with the chairs.

3 things.

1. I think you need a flat finish on the table. Yours is not and I think that is what is throwing off the look of the chairs.

2.Also the oval shape of your table. I think you need rectangular with those chairs.

3. Your wall color is not doing any of it justice.

Make that 4....light fixture. It needs an update. Your chairs are only going to look as good as the room they're placed in. I think they are great chairs. I just think there needs to be some updating to get the look the designer at EA was envisioning. Even if the chairs were the same wood as your table they would not be what you're hoping for.

I personally think the black chairs should be the least of your concerns right now. I agree with everything pink_peony said and more. You need a vision for this room. Right now, it's all very mishmatched. New wall paint, light fixture, window treatments and a rug will go a long way to ease the abrasiveness of the black chairs.

Paint the table white, not black.

Add a rug, if you're planning on a rug, or curtains in white/black and possibly tan to tie together everything.

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Hi eliznewjersey! What does the base of your existing table look like? The oval top definitely does not work with sharp modern lines of the chairs. A rectangular table would work much better. If a new table is not in the budget, consider chair covers. Look for a durable washable fabric. Chair covers can soften the overall look and work better with the traditional architecture of the room. You can also consider two large houseplants in the corners on either side of the window and remove the two buffets. Remove the mini blinds and add floor to ceiling curtains with the inside of the curtains lining up with the outside of the window. Use curtain rings or back tabs, not grommets (too modern for the room). The large plants and curtains will add balance and symmetry to the room. Right now everything in it seems too small. If you do replace the table find a rectangular one with a black base, and traditional turned base or traditional legs. The top should be lighter in color, white or stained wood. Does the piano get used? Is there another place for it? The current piano location would be a great spot for a larger buffet. Again, keep scale in mind. Add an area rug, a new ceiling light fixture and some artwork to tie the rest of the room together. Design It LLC offers remote design planning, if you are interested. I am happy to offer additional help. Have a great day!

Thanks, everyone. I really can't repaint the walls -- just painted and they are a bear. I like the idea of a wrought iron chandelier and maybe a black and white rug. I really think I have to replace the table before I do anything else. My husband has his heart set on a round table but it sounds like that's not a good idea. I hate to sell the chairs as I'm sure I would take a loss and they were expensive (at least for us). But I'm thinking I may not have what it takes to make this room work with them ... they're just too modern for my house and heading more in that direction might just be pushing me even more out of my comfort zone. Any recommendations about how to sell?

Before you give up contact Ethan Allen. Make them send their designer out. Tell them the chairs they recommended aren't working as they assured you they would and now you have a space you absolutely hate and you need them to help you. Make them present you with the vision they had for your room. Even if you can't purchase from them there are plenty of other less expensive options you can take to get the same exact look. Ethan Allens designers do not charge and they should have given you a design plan instead of just selling you some chairs.

Again I will reiterate that I don't think the issue is the table and chairs. Right now your just kinda throwing stuff together. But study your photos. There is no cohesion in the room , not the dining set. You have random pieces thrown in there with no balance. A piano in a dining room, a tall cabinet on one side of the window and a low one on the other. I'd pull all those pieces out. Buy some nice white draperies that you can hang as high as possible on that window. The window is small for the room. I'm guessing this is an older home. Hang the drapery panels to give the illusion of a larger window. now your walls are ready to be furnished. What belongs in there and what purpose does it serve in the dining room? Light fixture, art work, rug, lamps etc. all of those things are what is going to change the look of this space not the dining set.

I like your chairs but do agree you probably need a rectangular table with a black base and one of those rugs pictured that are black and white. Some art with black frames and a new chandi that has black wrought iron on it would be great. Ignore the paint....you can redo it at a later date. I really do like your chairs .. just not with that table.

The chairs a stunningly beautiful, but I agree that there seems to be no vision for this room. If budget is an issue we can find you well-priced items that can work for this room. The table will have to be addressed because it really doesn't work, and please don't close your mind to painting, because for some reason, on my screen your walls look rather pink! Are they supposed to be a beige or taupe.

Climb off the ledge and take a deep breath. This can be fixed. All these tables from Overstock are from $500 to $700.

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A black fixture can work for your room, but I don't think you mean wrought iron because that would be either Colonial, Country or Spanish in style. These fixtures could work

For the chairs , choose one or two you would like your children to use and go down to the fabric store and buy some clear vinyl "fabric". Its usually in the decorator fabric section near the faux leather. Buy a yard and simply upholster over your existing fabric with it. It will protect you fabric and make it easy to wipe/clean up the seats until your children are of an appropriate age to be more mess free.

There is nothing wrong with your chairs, you just need decor, all you have right now lots of furniture,wood just put something on table, add pictures and rug

@OP, your new Ethan Allen chairs w/existing table dont bother me at all. The pinkish wall paint does, as well as the diagonal direction of wood floor against straight grain of your table. I think that visual incongruency is what’s making table seem like it doesn’t go. A nice big rug would hide the visual distraction, so an easy fix.

I’d try really hard to relocate piano. Who’s going to play while people are eating? Seems out of place.

Slipcover the chairs, or paint them.

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I like the pink paint.

You have too much furniture in the room, so I removed it, changed the chandelier, added curtains, and funked it up with a rug.

Here's your table painted white. I don't think this is going to cut it. Keep in mind that store designers are really salespeople, so if you call her back, I'm sure she'll be delighted to sell you a new table.

Actually the Designers i suggested she ask for at Ethan allen do have degrees in Interior Design. The person she purchased from may or may not have been a designer. If you call in as I stated and ask for a designer to be sent out to your home they have Designers in staff. You are not obligated to purchase from them to have this service.

If you decide to paint the table, paint it black.

Thanks to Groveraxle for saying she/he liked the walls! I did pick the color and I still like it and don't want to repaint. The photo of the room is basically post-paint and we just finished moving the furniture back in, so I do have artwork for the room (I have two original charcoal pieces that should work nicely plus a 19th-century oil with a black frame) and was planning to change the window treatments (those are the old ones we just stuck back up after painting for privacy). I really like the way the curtains look in Groveraxle's rendering and the idea of a more casual rug is great, too. I love the chandelier Jan Moyer suggested (where is that from?). I actually looked at a chandelier a lot like that one in more of an antique brass.

The table I will change to one with a black base and lighter top or get a dark one like the Tommy Bahama one above (with a matte finish, another great suggestion). I can paint the one I have (no sentimental value - got it at an estate sale), but it's a pretty nice table and it seems a shame to paint it (especially the kind of job I might do!). I have a gigantic buffet that it goes with and I have an antique dealer interested in buying that, so I'll just throw in the table as well (they are both Rway, apparently a well-known brand?). I can move the other pieces to my living room -- they were a gift from my husband before we got married and I want to keep them for that reason but I get that they're a bit fussy (or ugly as my mother-in-law says). Not sure what to put there, though -- just leave it empty?

The piano has to stay. It was a gift from my grandfather when I was a child and I do play it (not while we're eating, of course!). The only place it could go is our living room, which, while a decent size has no wall space big enough for it (too many doors, windows, built-ins, fireplace -- it's a 100-plus year old house!).

I really appreciate everyone's help. Wow! So many great suggestions in only one afternoon and evening! I think I'm getting to a place where I may actually like this room -- despite the fact that almost everyone hates the pink ... it really is quite pretty in person. :)

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Change the chair
seats, the LIGHT add curtains, Add a rug.......It isn't decorated yet!! Do the table switch last........ The light is Hubbardton Forge, The rug is an 8 x 10 charcoal sisal , 225.00

There's a lot of junk in tables, with finishes that will not hold up. .............switch the table last. Or paint what you have, to a soft black top, and white base. This is a minefield category of junkola out there. Arhaus on the one below........save your money : )

The iron chandelier gives you a totally different look:

I think we trying to hard to make everything look perfect, we are not staging houses for magazine photo shoot, yes we want our place to look nice and stylish. But because we have so much pressure from all kind of resources showing us perfectly decorated places we may get too obsessed and worried about the look of our living space.. We don't need to buy or change things as often as stores and somebody tells us. It is impossible to be always in trend and get rid of some valuable, memorable things like your piano just because it doesn't look good in the room :)

I, too, was persuaded to buy flat-black chairs with a brown wooden dining room table, but I happen to like the combination. My table, though, is rectangular, a distressed finish with a trestle. The table is in a large kitchen/dining area, and the new house aready had black drawer pulls on the kitchen cabinets and a black iron chandelier above the island. I bought a black iron orb chandelier with wood accent for above the table, and I think it looks great. The table sits on an Oriental rug, and I picked fabric for the chairs that picked up a color in the rug and in adjoining open areas.

You are so right that we are constantly bombarded and encouraged to get latest and greatest, unnecessarily so, but many of us don’t care to admit that we do fall for ‘the more is more trap’. Suggesting to get rid of something is not the same as suggesting to find a better place. If room was twice as big, then it could be an entertainment parlor (w/piano) and a DR. As it is now it just looks crowded.

Admittedly, OP wanted input on table/chairs and we’ve gone on a tangent, as arm chair decorators often do.

Grover,

You do amazing mockups. Please tell us what software you use.

@bejessica and Lexi GS, I use Photoshop Elements, Photoshop's skinnier, cheaper cousin. However, I understand that something called Gimp is similar and is available as a free download. There is a learning curve to both of them, however.

Alison, because she said she doesn't like them now, and they don't work with the table. Easier to cover them or paint them than to spend even more on another table that may not work.