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25 Dining Room Ideas That Epitomize Good Taste

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Bentwood Beauts

Stephen Kent Johnson

In this rooftop dining space in a Manhattan home designed by Ashe Leandro, inky hues and industrial touches are the backdrop to a group of five vintage Gijs Bakker bentwood chairs around a custom table. The plant and artful vessels on the shelves add just the right touch.

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Golden Touch

Shade Degges

A good as gold dining room idea? A neutral room amped up with Midas-touched velvet seating, like this one, courtesy of designer Martha Mulholland.

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Panel Discussion

Douglas Friedman

To add a sense of history to this Sonoma, California, estate, designer Ken Fulk covered the dining room walls in ornate timber paneling and set a large 19th-century French table in the middle. To keep the look from getting too heavy, the wood features a silvery finish, and the table is topped by feathery fronds.

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Spare and Serene

Frank Frances Studio

Can’t decide between a banquette and a traditional table? Incorporate both, as Ishka Designs did in this recent Brooklyn project.

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Pastel Perfection

Chris Mottalini

We also love this hybrid table-banquette look from New York design firm Husband Wife. The 1940s Venini pendants elevate the everyday.

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Table’s All Set

Maureen M. Evans

When in doubt, rely on family treasures to make your supper space sing. Here, all-star Mexican chef Elena Reygadas dressed her table in an antique lace tablecloth that belonged to her grandmother.

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Blue Crush

Genevieve Garruppo

“We were both aware that, inherently, dining rooms are really traditional,” says designer Alec Holland of this recent Hamptons project. “Yet we knew we wanted to make this one fun.” In one of our favorite DIYs in recent ELLE DECOR memory, the designer repainted a heavy, traditional table in an Yves Klein blue and bright apple-green lacquer.

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Off the Wall

Nicole Franzen

If you’ve got it, flaunt it! Such was the case for designer Natalia Miyar, who collaborated with Fromental on a wallpaper line. Naturally, it is the joyous backdrop for her dining room. “If I could wallpaper every room, I probably would!” she tells us.

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Tropical Environment

Rich Stapleton

Dining should be a transportive experience, and we can’t think of a better backdrop for epicurean excursion than this luscious wallpaper from Calico in the Future Perfect’s Los Angeles outpost.

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Sunshine State

Dustin Halleck

If you’re blessed with ample sunshine and airy ceilings, consider painting your walls in a pale lemon hue to accentuate the light, as Brockschmidt & Coleman did in this stunning New Orleans residence.

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Break Out of the Shell

Dustin Halleck

Victorian seashell grottos (who knew?) are an aesthetic touchpoint for this perfectly charming vignette in a Chicagoland Tudor reimagined by Elizabeth Mollen. The light blue walls accentuate the cheerful vibes.

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Midcentury Cool

Laure Joliet

Modern lines meet punchy colors in Frances Merrill’s overhaul of a Silicon Valley cottage. Pro tip: Accessorize with bright blooms, vintage salt-and-pepper shakers, and taper candles in an unexpected hue.

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Thought Bubble

Frank Frances

Even if you have a petit dining space (like this breakfast nook by Katch Interiors), it can still be made special via sweeping drapery and a fun light fixture, like this effervescent bubble chandelier from Pelle.

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Hollywood Glam

Kelly Marshall

If you live in Hollywood like writer and director Mara Brock Akil, your home will doubtlessly have more than its fair share of glamour. In her dining room, a vintage conference room table was repurposed for mealtime and surrounded by light-as-air vintage chairs and topped off with a celestial Murano chandelier. The artwork is by Elon Brasil.

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Shelf Life

Serena Eller Vainicher

Books might be mental sustenance, but they make for damn great dining room decor too. Here, in the Milan home of textile maven Caterina Fabrizio, a covetable Gabriella Crespi table is surrounded by IKEA chairs.

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Room with a View

Stephan Julliard

Who needs desserts when the views are this delectable? Aside from a minimal dining table and chairs, you need little else to drink in the Mediterranean Sea at this Lebanon compound.

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Cozy Cove

Winnie Au

Everyday’s a picnic in this mealtime niche in a Brooklyn home designed by Office of Tangible Space. Lime-washed walls accentuate the coziness.

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Natural Beauty

Tim Lenz

Neutral dining rooms are the perfect backdrop for a tempting feast, especially when it’s as effortless as this one designed by Augusta Hoffman. She surrounded the Sun at Six table with a set of six vintage Paul McCobb dining chairs. The floating console acts as a handy serving area during dinner parties.

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Gustavian Glamour

Kelly Marshall

On the menu? Elegance. And we wouldn’t expect anything less from Lauren Buxbaum Gordon, Nate Berkus’s design partner. For this recent New York project, she surrounded an antique Gustavian dining table with a set of French Louis XVI–style dining chairs and topped the look off with a pendant by Rose Uniacke.

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Holier than Thou

Ricardo Labougle

Have the luxury of a lengthy dining table? Complement it with an artwork of the same length. We love this spooky-chic Last Supper look in the home of Brazilian architect and designer Juliana Lima Vasconcellos.

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15 Modern Dining Room Ideas

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Ashley Knierim

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Ashley Knierim is a home decor expert and product reviewer of home products for The Spruce. Her design education began at a young age. She has over 10 years of writing and editing experience, formerly holding editorial positions at Time and AOL.

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Updated on 06/21/21

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The phrase "formal dining room" often elicits images of stuffy, traditional dining spaces fit for fancy events only. But a dining room doesn't have to feel formal to be formal. Modern dining spaces are just as classy and alluring as traditional dining rooms, but a little more approachable.

Whether you're into the Mid-century modern look, or you want to opt for something even more contemporary, the streamlined look and feel of a modern dining room is a great way to give your space an updated, refreshing vibe.

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Art gallery and multifunctional canteen at Moscow Lyceum No. 1535

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Designer Miya Karlova turned the canteen at Moscow Lyceum No. 1535 into a multifunctional tapestry hanging. We think that it is especially pleasant to return to such a school on September 1st.

In 2018, designer Miya Karlova transformed the public area of ​​Moscow's Fifty-seventh School on Khamovnichesky, and it caused a real sensation. The project even brought her first place in the Entrance Groups nomination of the AD Design Award. After such success, representatives of Lyceum No. 1535, another famous and prestigious educational institution in Moscow, turned to her.

“I didn't immediately agree,” Miya admits. - Existing regulations severely limit the possibilities of arranging school corridors. For example, the norms for the location of outlets were prescribed in those days when children did not have computers and gadgets that needed to be constantly charged.”

The lyceum has a huge collection of posters and reproductions of works of art from various museums around the world - more than a thousand copies in total. “We filmed and cataloged all the works, and instead of a linear one, we offered trellis hanging, grouping the posters according to artistic directions,” Miya says. – One of the examples that inspired me for the bright design of the exposition, I saw in Madrid at the exhibition “Russian Avant-Garde”, where works from the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum were presented. The paintings did not hang on monochromatic walls, but on top of multi-colored geometric shapes that set the dynamics for the entire exhibition.” The designer used a similar technique in the corridor of the lyceum, enclosing the posters inside large-scale geometric shapes.

Mia Karlova's second task was to rethink the space of the dining room. “A large room, designed for one hundred and fifty people, is used only during breakfast and lunch. This is a common practice for most Moscow schools. The management suggested making it more flexible and functional so that events for large and small groups could be held at the same time,” explains the designer.

Mia used several techniques to zone the vast space. For example, large movable partitions allow you to implement three planning scenarios. On the outside, the partitions are covered with a graphic drawing based on Karlova's sketches, and on the inside there is a special coating on which you can write with a marker. Furniture in the dining room has also become mobile and functional: chairs are stackable, and small partitions on wheels allow you to quickly change the configuration of furniture arrangement and re-zoning the space.

The Innovation Agency of the Government of Moscow provided great technical assistance in the work on the project. Miya developed the project and drafted the terms of reference for furniture and functional solutions, and the agency announced the search for contractors interested in the project. As a result, tables and chairs were supplied by the Finnish company Isku, and sliding multifunctional partitions were made by the Russian company Nayada. In public areas, folding tables and furniture built into a niche were made by LIS, and poufs and armchairs were made by Smartballs.

“This kind of project has its own challenges. Firstly, it is a search for a compromise in the definition of aesthetic and functional components. In public projects, there is always one customer, but there are many consumers. Changes are often perceived differently, especially when there is an established habitual way, says Mia Karlova. - Secondly, design norms and regulations. In Soviet times, children were taught to hold and disassemble a Kalashnikov assault rifle, but the sockets were removed to a height inaccessible to them. I believe it's time to revisit the rules that were developed in a different reality and make school spaces modern. Let the children who are at school all day and absorb information in such volumes that we never dreamed of have the opportunity to charge the phone without jumping to the height set by the outdated regulations.”

Photo: Mikhail Loskutov

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