HELP with my dining room
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Help with my dining room please!
Comments (6)Gosh, I love your chairs. They are very beautiful. You have a wonderful dining room. I would not worry about art. Find a nicely framed mirror for now and use that as a place holder for the art. Allow the art to come naturally. First and foremost find a fabric for your window treatments. Decide on what kind of drapes you want and pick a fabric. Everything else will flow from that color palette. My favorite fabrics (on the spendy side, but good for inspiration if nothing else) are from Pierre Frey. Their website allows you to browse by color family and presents options to go with various fabrics. I scrolled through the plums, yellows, golds, and reds and found so many possibilities. I would start with fabric before considering what kinds of drapes. The fabric will surely inspire you. For a centerpiece I would keep my eye out for something with some sparkle. A footed compote in silver or crystal might be nice. Or a piece of old Moser glass, the kind that is colorful and possibly enameled. Check eBay. Again, I adore your dining room. Your colors are strong, the furniture classic and pretty, not stuffy at all. You have great taste and a perfect starting point. Have fun. ETA on the Frey website be sure to click on the see the fabric in situation link- quite helpful- I mention it because the link is not placed obviously....See MoreNeed Help with my Dining Room Please!
Comments (11)Hi, Christy-- As Susan mentions, there's a lot of contrast going on in here right now! Would love to see this space without the area rug currently down, but the option that pops for me is to further enhance your great trim first. To my eye, it's the best part of your room today. I'd recommend painting your chair rail and the area below it in the same white as your existing trim, lightening and defining more of your wall area between the current, big planes of beige - ceiling, wall, and floor. A white wainscot treatment like this will also help show off your handsome dark furniture without making its legs white. May help you achieve that same effect through different means, if you're open to it. I'd also recommend considering a clean, classic banded drum shade fixture over your dining table to add a stronger visual center to the room before making any other changes. Ordinarily I'd recommend a white ceiling to start, but there are other ways to lighten and enhance the space if it's a feature that you really love and foresee adding value to the space in the future. Cheers!...See MoreHelp make my dining room look more inviting and calm
Comments (12)I noticed that it looks like the chair cushions are flat and worn and dark. I'd redo those seats with some batting and a pretty solid color fabric. It's not hard to do and would make it more welcoming. Check online for how to do it. Usually the seats lift out by unscrewing the four screws from the underside. It's an easy and cheap upgrade. Speaking of chairs, try eliminating the black ones. Then take two of the dining chairs and put them over where the black ones were. Give them a little more space away from the dresser under the window and see how that looks. I would gather all the photos and candles and stuff and put them all in the built-in china cabinet. If you can, try to get various heights going by putting some of them on top of canvas storage boxes (Target. Joanna Gaines collection) or whatever you can find to use as risers. Then find online some battery operated white "fairy lights" to arrange loosely around the photos and shelves to light them up. They are harder to find when it's not Christmas. Read the directions. I have some that go on at the same time each evening and then shut themselves off. They are so nice inside a china cabinet to light up the photos. It sounds hokey but it's not. Try swapping the bookcase over to the left side of the patio doors so you don't have everything busy on the right side. Move and angle that white cabinet in the corner on the right side of the patio doors. Try to find something like a fairly large basket or two to put on top of it. You really will benefit from getting some taller perceived mass in the room. Right now everything is basically the same height and low at that. If you like the way it looks, think about painting the bookcase white or some nice color. A golden color looks good with hardwood floors just so long as it doesn't look like another wood color. I think you need some height and mass on the dresser too. Check out the same Joanna Gaines Collection at Target online. Maybe a lamp? Or a large vase. Something. You could also put a mirror just barely above the dresser to add to the mass. And consider painting it light blue or whatever you like. Find something like a towel or a piece of clothing in blue and drape it temporarily on it to see if the color appeals to you. Try removing or just pushing to the side, the curtain above the dresser. If you can find a real or fake plant, try one or two up there to diffuse the light but open that space up. Another plant somewhere else would be nice too. The table looks sad and lonely. Maybe a tray. Or maybe a runner. Or a stack of pretty placemats in the center. A plant? It will add some interest and color. Do check out the Joanna Gaines collection just to see what you like. You could order online and if you don't like the stuff, you can return at the store rather than shipping things back. My thinking is that by trying some different things, even if it's not exactly right, you'll get a sense of what your eye finds welcoming and calming. By the way, I love the kiddo table and kitchen. It's cute and sweet that your little ones are part of the space. The blue storage piece that laughable moments posted would be so perfect in place of the dresser. Check out craigslist and search on "storage cabinet", "dining console" and words like that. You can probably find something you'll want to paint. But by moving and adding some easy stuff to what you have right now, you'll definitely get an idea of where you want to go with the room. And it's a manageable, not overwhelming way to start the process. I know how overwhelming it can be. Down the road, you'll probably want new and fuller drapes on the patio door. But you'll figure it out after you try some things with the rest of the stuff. Not sure that you need a rug actually. I have floors like yours and I have an oriental but it's pretty busy. I do have a seagrass looking rug with neutral to golden colors and it's very calming and pretty with the floors, so maybe check out some rugs like that and see if they appeal to you....See MoreHELP - I need help in my dining room
Comments (39)And....it's finished!!! Thank you, BeverlyFLAdeziner, for the great idea. I hope you see this because I LOVE the way it turned out. It really does add a fresh new look to the room and it's something I never would have thought of doing. Not bad for 2 days worth of painting and about $100 bucks in supplies. Now on to new drapes and artwork! I'll post some progress pics below. Love it!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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