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Great Room Dining Area

7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

We are building a home without a formal dining room, but the dining space in the open concept is large and grand scale. We have an older Tuscan formal Ethan Allen dining table, with beautiful inlay on the top and I would like to reuse the table, but I know I need to tone down the formalness of the table with the chairs. I don't want to use my current formal Ethan Allen chairs. I want something classic, sophisticated, but casual. We like clean lines with character. The table is a medium golden brown color with inlay of medium-dark brown stain. The table photo below shows an example of our table, but it has more of a red oak color stain, while ours is more golden and lighter overall. The second photo is the model home we're building, except we won't have the fireplace in the dining area and replace with fixed glass windows due to the tremendous nature view on lot. We will be turning the table lengthwise instead of horizontal. The wood floors and beams will be a dark walnut stain, the trim and ALL cabinets are in a cream with a chocolate pen line; my couch is in the light pale yellow family with cream chair (and gold/yellow simple geometric design) and dark leather ottoman. What kind of dining chairs do I buy? I have saved some photos of chairs Iike on my acct to refer to. I like the combo texture of the rattan and fabric, and simple / classic line fabric. Colors? Styles? I need help. Chairs are expensive and I don't want to make a bad decision.