You can change almost anything in a rental, as long as you restore it to the ugly it was. So yes, you CAN paint walls, and yes, you can take down a hideous light, and hang something else until you leave, and you can hang it at the right height too. You can hang large and lightweight canvas art with command hooks. ....................You can do any darn thing you want that isn't PERMANENT.https://www.hayneedle.com/product/belham-living-paige-open-back-dining-chair-brown-herringbone-set-of-2.cfm

Not a designer. Based on examples here on Houzz, it looks like she can use any chair. Even her current chairs.

We recently got this beautiful white, distressed kitchen table. We need help picking out chairs and a rug. We’d like to have a little more color as everything else is fairly neutral in this space.

How would you position the chairs and table in this space?