As just above, inside trim only. Note, that a little black, goes a very long way. Your furniture is classic "farm" the look you want is far more suited to a bit more "glam" dining furniture. What you do on ceiling should make sense with furnishings and wall color. Whatever that will be.

If you want glam get rid of the shutters and add drapes as for painting the center black I would need to see the new wall color I would not do a medallion but a nicer chandelier for sure. Black is a great statement but it needs to have connection to something and what I see is no black and that table base to me does not work with those chairs and especially if glam is what you are going for. I would also need to see the room next to the DR.

She HAS black,...........and adding more could certainly be overkill.

"our front door is black, we also have black iron bannister on the staircase in the foyer, so with the tray ceiling you’d see the pop of black either way do it entering my home...and I think it would look great with the pops of black we already have,"

I would paint entire ceiling with tray the same white color.

To early in the AM I guess missed that. But I still need to see the whole area.

I like the color of your walls.

Move the table so that it is centered under your light fixture.

This is how the space might appear with a black ceiling. I'd start by getting a better chandelier & art for the wall and then decide if the ceiling needs paint.

This fixture make more of a statement is black and is lower than your current fixture.

Maybe not quite black like this above.

Darker walls not ceilings are more on trend now....do not paint the ceiling.....but rather the walls! That being said here is a totally glam look.

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I love the black ceiling idea- a new chandelier will be very important to the look. Inner area black seems to be enough. GL :)

Here is the area surrounding the dining room, and you can see what I mean about the stairs having black on them and the front door. Also, everything that is out isn’t going necessarily be kept the way it is, this is all just unpacking and I have a hell of a lot more stuff to buy 😄 so excited!

As for the original photo I posted of the dining room, i have my work cut out for me with the walls. It appears the previous owners did a sub-par job skim coating the walls and ceiling in that one room. All of the rounded edges still have some texture on them and there are dents everywhere. To add they covered it with paintable wallpaper, and painted a really warm dingy looking ivory over the wall to match the ceiling. Then it appears they used the dragging technique over the wallpaper with beige. Overall it is terrible and I hate it.

So I’m going to need to remove and repair. Just saying I’m not sticking with this, any of this beige paint. I’m hoping to do a crisper ivory on this whole level, like alabaster from SW. I might consider doing a darker wall vs the ceiling. I’m torn. I’m wanting to do rustic glam because I live in Colorado, because of the barn wood floors and bc we have earth tones through out.

I love your ideas so far guys and want to say thank you! Oh one more thing, as for centering the dining table, that’s my other problem. They didn’t tray the ceiling far enough so the chandelier is centered in the tray, not in the room bc of the bay winder. The dining table is prob as far left as I can get because of traffic flow and that’s one of two places I can put any dining storage. There’s a huge intake duct on the wall behind where you see the chandelier that goes left almost to the door. So I was just thinking of getting an oversized orb or unusual shaped chandelier and putting a cabinet to the right to hopefully offset the visual that something is off.

I really love that chandelier BeverlyFLADeziner posted and thank you so much for drawing this up! Visual is what I’ve really been needing because I know ceilings are a nightmare, would hate wasting my time or paying more than I need to with hiring