Help needed with kitchen table area!

8 years ago

I have a very long kitchen. We have a rectangular two toned wood table and chairs on an 8x10 rug. The French doors open up to our newly renovated screen porch and deck. I have no idea how to make this space look nicer. I want it to be more put together and stylish. Just bought the rug and not sure about it. Feel the space needs lighter tones since floors and cabinets are so dark. Suggestions for area, chandelier, windows, walls, rug, etc please?? Thanks!

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decoenthusiaste

8 years ago

Perhaps it is camera distortion, but the 4 pix by the window don't appear to be the same size. Are they already framed in black or can you add a frame to them? If they are the same size they, group them above the buffet. Bottom two frames 5" above it and all of them one hand's breadth apart. They might add more if they were framed with a bit of bling, but you really need to go lighter if you can find art you like. One large piece or 4 in a group for the buffet. Then you'll have room for properly hung drapes flanking the window and lying more on the wall than over the window panes. The drapes can stop the eye and visually help shorten the room if they don't match the wall color, but are colored/patterned. The table needs 36-42" of walkway all around it and that appears to be the case. The minimum size rug should be 4' bigger than your table top each direction. The problem with yours is that it is longer in one direction which, instead of cutting the length of the room, is advertising it. So, measure the table, add four feet to each measurement and that will be a better size. If it isn't a standard size, then go up to the next standard size when you shop. Get a professional painter to give you an estimate on the cabinet job.

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Comments (9)

Sally VanV
8 years ago
Put a light linen or linen look set of didecdrapws on the window at the end of the room. Use larger light and impactful accessories instead of small. I think you can edit out the 4 black paintings on the window wall
cpaul1
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Wow, that is a lot of clutter going on. I would definitely say no to the rug. It's too casual against those really pretty floors, it's too busy, and it looks messy. I also would not put that table there. The color of wood on the table top is fighting with your kitchen cabinets. You have too much dark going on ... dark cabinets, dark counter tops, dark floor. You need to paint your kitchen cabinets a light color. Then I would get a round glass table for that casual dining area (assuming you have a dining table in another room) and put the table on top of a more traditional round area rug. I would upgrade the lighting fixture over the table. I would remove the black pictures hanging on the walls. And then you need to seriously declutter that kitchen. Your mind is not going to think well in that space surrounded in that clutter.
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abbyjean
8 years ago
Greenery....it adds so much to a room!

Is the table centered with the window? How about one chair on each side of the table instead of two on two sides.....worth trying?
decoenthusiaste
8 years ago
You are correct; you've gone too dark with everything. The rug looks more like a sunroom rug to me. I like your cabinets but they aren't working with the flooring which has a lot of yellow in it on my screen. May be easier to paint the cabs to match your trim than to change the floor color. Are they new?
cburch22
Original Author
8 years ago
Unfortunately I’m stuck with the table. I’d love to paint the cabinets an antique white but not sure how much a project like that would cost to have done? I can return rug. Worried that going without the rug won’t give any separation to the long kitchen. And I apologize for the clutter- should’ve cleaned up before photographing. Any other rug suggestions (color-wise? Pattern or solid? Material?) and window treatment ideas? Definitely need new chandelier just not sure what color or shape? And walls?
Danielle Black
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
New curtains, move art to left wall, airier lchandelier maybe a round rug
Danielle Black
8 years ago
winker58
8 years ago
I don't think the rug is bad and I like the idea of going with something lighter when everything else is dark. Would you consider a round rug. I am just thinking that everything is square (room, window, table, etc.) and maybe something round would switch it up.

your kitchen looks like mine on many days. We live in it, can't always pick it all up and things just happen.