If you’re going to use that art piece, I would hang it on the wall at the end of the table and get a smaller piece for over the buffet.

Do you use the formal dining room a lot? I would consider using the space as a front parlor. Change out the box chandelier and add a conversational seating arrangement. TV even?

Hi. Yes, a lot of potential here!

Here are my recommendations in the right order.

1) Decide what function you want this space to serve. Do you really want/need a formal dining room? If yes, that's fine. If no, use it for something else.

2) Decide your style. You say "modern". When looking at your ideabook, I see a mix of styles from traditional to contemporary. I don't see anything modern. Don't worry about what it is called. Save photos to an ideabook.

3) Once you have an idea of your style and what purpose the room will serve, then you can get going.

Some tips: If you are using this as a dining room, I would place a rug in the front hall and remove it from under the table. The current rug is too busy for the floor (2 small busy patterns). The tv feels awkward there. The buffet feels crowded where it is and likely is just too much with the table in there. The art (very pretty) should go on the wall with the vent or tv.

Good luck!

This seems to me to be an odd place for a DR can we see the layout of the whole main floor . All that wasted space is confusing. Usually wianscoting is not modern but can be sometimes dependong on many things. Why a TV there at all . IMO we need a lot more info.

Perhaps in person the space feels different, but in the pictures it doesn't seem to be working well. Dining set feels squeezed in, more like a walk by and other side feels akward and bare.

Dining: Suggest adding molding on far wall (there are so many looks to choose from) and that area will be more interesting and defined.

Try turning table (and chandelier and it also may not feel as overwhelming). Place hutch/art on wall on left, and add drapery. You’ll have a more inviting room that doesn't feel cramped.

Entrance: Add a mirror by door and a rug that works with yours, to help define it as a foyer.

Could keep table in your configuration, but pull away from wall and add hutch and art there, if their proportions are suitable. Chandelier will have to be moved over, but will be worth it.

Thank you so all the ideas. I know it is an odd space for a TV but we like to have the TV on at the dinner table. This is the only viable place to fit a TV and a dining table.

How about a floor distressed mirror (+70” tall) against the left bare wall, and some molding on the TV wall?

I can hang the picture by the entryway and maybe exchange out to a smaller table?

I am planning to get a skinny and long sideboard under the TV. The wall space between the TV wall and the chairs is 42”. Will a 14” depth sideboard work?

The chandler is centered to the window. If I move it out to yield more space for the sideboard, will the table look off centered in the room?

We love to linger over dinner and watch TV while we eat too. I totally get it and that is why we have created an eating area in our living room.

How many are in your household on a nightly basis eating dinner? Six people? Where else on your first floor do you have a TV - a great room or a living room? I'd like to see those areas and suggest making a casual eating space in that TV location and saving this entrance dining area for formal entertaining if that is even something you do. How many times a year do you have formal sit down dinners with six people? Perhaps this space should remain formal dining but perhaps it should be something else.

Hi. Though not ideal, I would move the table out from the wall, put sideboard under tv, remove the rug, move chandelier to center on table, no hall table and place a rug in the hall.

Save the focal wall for molding/art and place tv on side wall.

I'm lazy and wouldn't want to move the light fixture, it's fine. But I would get rid of the harsh glare from the light bulbs by replacing them with warm-toned dimmable Edison bulbs on a dimmer switch. We did this with our bare bulb dining room chandelier and what a difference you will see.

As suggested move the big art to the bare wall at the end of the table and move the carpet into the entry area. Get something smaller over the chest. Do not put a mirror on the bare wall, no one wants to watch themselves eat lol.

Now this is my stroke of genius -- paint the TV wall in a deep dark color as an accent wall. It will camo the TV and avoid the hassle of trying to build wall panels or molding or adding or moving furniture to balance the space. It will add drama and define the dining room. Voila, easy peasy, you're welcome lol.

I took a while to post and saw the idea of the TV on the left wall, nice. But I would still paint the big wall behind the dining set a bold color and hang the big tree art where the TV was. Now that would be a beautiful accent wall!

I see the merit of focusing the larger wall on the accent color/picture. I think it will look great. If I move the TV to the smaller wall, then when you walk in the door, the TV is the first thing greeting ya 🤔. Will that be a downside?

I agree, the hallway space is wasted and open. What can I do to make it functional?

Pull the rug under the table and put a runner by the entryway?

Here is a picture turning the table the other way. Of course, the light fixture can be re-oriented too. Adding a sideboard and a picture on the left?

Pictures

I think I would get rid of the chest of drawers and get a long double sided sideboard that sits perpendicular to the table to separate the two spaces and provide balance to the dining area.

I would put the TV on the wall between the door and the window and have the art on the wall where the TV currently is.

Might add a similar carpet runner to the foyer.

I think the first thing one will see is the accent wall and art. We are all accustomed to seeing TV's on a wall and the eye really no longer registers them as significant enough to distract.

I agree, I think a nice rug in the entry hall will provide a warm and welcoming feel. That should be enough to create the foyer as its own space. Leave the dining room rug, but colors pulled from it and in a different style. I'm liking the blue color scheme.

It's hard to tell on my monitor if the background on your rug is white or greige. These are examples but you will need to tape out the correct size on your floor before buying one.

I just edited this post for clarity.

You mean the TV on the left side of the door? No. That would ruin the ambiance of the foyer. If it were to be on that wall then to the left of the window if there's room.

The dividing sideboard is an intriguing idea.

I would go with my mock-up because I would prefer the tree against my accent wall...it makes the art pop. Again, TV's are not really there there....just a black blob...especially competing with something so bold.

And of course it won't be turned on when welcoming guests, unless the game is the first thing you want them to notice but that's another story.

put tv on short wall and run electrical through the wall. Does your TV support an art display on the screen when not being used as a TV? Sideboard at least 1/3 wider than TV under the TV. A 48” round table with an additional leaf (make a 48” x 60” oval) for additional seating. Follow other advice for defining entryway. A bench is also helpful in that space.

Yes, the TV does support an art display. I have this casual dining table, exchange it out to the formal dining? The entryway will look too big for this 5” ft table?

Is this a new house or an older house that got remodeled and had some walls removed?

Yes to the round table instead of the formal rectangular one! If the space feels too empty, I think a console table or credenza underneath the TV will help balance out the space and make this look like more of a casual multipurpose room where a TV belonds instead of a formal dining room with a TV in it.