Dining Room

The Dining Room, in combination with the Entryway, will be one of the first two rooms in our home we'd like to decorate. The Dining Room currently has furinishings for the "big pieces" such as a table, chairs, buffet and a mirror. The table and chairs definitely need to stay in the Dining Room. The buffet can be moved into the Living Room if it suits the design better. The mirror can be used where it is or elsewhere in the house.

NOTE: The three front rooms (entryway, living room and dining room) are very open and flow into each other so I would like the design of each of these rooms to tie them together in some fashion.









Measurements



Current Light Fixture

World Imports Chandelier (80016-85) that we'd like to stay, however, we will consider other options.



Current Furnishings

Below are pictures and measurements of furniture that is currently in the dining room.

Dining Table - Taracea (RZ-04) - Measurements: Diameter 72" x H 30"



Dining Chairs - Lorts Side Chair (9793) - Measurements: W20 x D25 x H41 1/2



The chairs are covered in Fabricut Martello/Waterfall and Fabricut Yale/Splash





Buffet - Stanley Furniture Melrose Buffet Beau Nouveau in Noir (445-81-06) - Measurements W 77 1/2" x D 21" x H 40"



Mirror - Stanley Furniture (Barbados Zebra Landscape Mirror) - Measurements: W46" x H44"



Current Paint Colors

The walls and the ceiling are already painted to coordinate with the fabric on the dining chairs. This can be changed if it will fit the design plan better.

Benjamin Moore: Lodge AF 115 (brown)

Benjamin Moore: Wythe Blue HC 143 (blue)

Original Design Direction

We didn't (and still don't) have a cohesive design direction for this room. We just began to fill the room with pieces that caught our collective eye (table, buffet, mirror) and knew that it was going to be a very eclectic room. We went with the blue in the fabric and on the ceiling because of one of the pieces we wanted to use in the Living Room (which has not been purchased). The Living Room piece that we liked was the Eddy West Small English Cupboard (36-1312) in Deep Teal.



We attended a wedding in Chicago a couple years back (the reception was at Fulton's on the River) and loved how the bar area was decorated with large black and white photos of the city. We envisioned using the long wall in the Dining Room as a similar type gallery.



We also tried to move forward with a rug selection, but started to get a little tripped up due to the location of the chandelier which obviously needs the round table centered underneath it. We started to look at square rugs, but couldn't find any that would tie the room together to our liking. We did find rugs that we liked, but they weren't square and we weren't sure how a rectangular rug would look or fit in the space and we were trying our best to stay away from the custom rug arena.