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This Dining room needs help!

13 years ago
Walls are a blue gray, curtains, chandelier and cabinet (filled with MacKenzie items) on the right needs to stay. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank You!

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  • PRO
    13 years ago
    Are you wanting to stay with the blue gray walls? Even if you don't, this room would look terrific with crown molding and a larger baseboard. OR even better (though it would cost more) is installing wainscot molding, painted the trim color...leaving the blue walls above or changing the color. From a painting perspective!

    A nice valance that allows more light, more for decor than full curtains would be good too.
  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 13 years ago
    Please remove the table cover!

    let's begin

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    I like the round mirror
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    I'd agree with @sundeleaf on the molding upgrades and keeping the colors. Then I like the picture of the blue striped walls that @genevieve posted. That is easy for a quality painting company to achieve. It is not all that expensive to do the striping. It looks amazing too!
  • 13 years ago
    I like the round mirror better.
  • 13 years ago
    Just wanted to say I love the furniture you have here! If it were me, I would do something to make the space lighter - either a lighter color for the walls, or the lower halves white, or maybe do sheers with the curtains and have the heavy curtains all the way open - or all of those. I would also say that the rug and the table cloth (especially the table cloth) don't really match the style of the rest of the room. I'd probably skip a table cloth, or maybe go with a nice runner - something that goes a little better with the formality and ornateness of the furniture. And I'd be tempted to go for an oriental rug in there, which would also go better with the furniture.

    If I'm seeing the perspective right, it looks like that settee is pulled up to the table for seating. What about moving it around to one of the table's longer sides, so it isn't wider than the table? (Since it's also taller, it looks a little awkward at the table's narrower end.)

    I think the tops of the walls need more attention, too. Crown molding would be great. And something should hang above the buffet - is that mirror on the floor intended for that spot? If not, I might go for a gold-framed mirror (or picture), just to create some variety with the carved dark wood. You could certainly hang a few more framed items around the room at eye level as well. And - maybe the collection of candlesticks could go on the buffet, and some fresh flowers could go on the table? That would make things sunnier.
  • 13 years ago
    what do you think about the mirrors I posted above?
  • 13 years ago
    You all have been wonderful!!!! Thank you! I'll hang the mirror and show you how it looks!