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dining room makeover

7 years ago

Not sure what paint to use and what chandelier to hang in this room. also what rug to buy.
This is a first room when you enter the house. we changed floors, but not happy.
So need to find a rug too.
Table and chairs stay.
not sure of the current chandelier choice
the table position was decided based on the need to have some dance room, as my teens like parties, but if it looks really awkward may be we still can move.
please help!

Comments (9)

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    you need to settle on a wall color before you pick a rug. Or do you not have any other furniture in the home? If you have nothing else to match in that room, then I suppose you could pick a rug first and choose a color based on that.

    what else is going in the room on the other side of the stairs? I assume the wall color will also reach that area?

    (and that chandelier seem a little too fancy for that room style) You also need to find a light that is suitable for vaulted ceilings. (the canopy is jointed to allow to hang straight)


    i see you've tried some paint samples. what don't you like about them? do you want a gray?

    I wouldn't do any blue/gray.

    what about white?









  • PRO
    7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Table is Hepplewhite, although it looks like a marriage. It would look great painted white.



    Try:



  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    With the table off center, would not use a single central overhead light fixture; instead, put attractive bright cheerful pendant lights where it appears you intended to put recessed lighting and add a control for dimming the lights when much light isn't needed.


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  • 7 years ago

    I love that you are decorating based on how your home is used!


    I'm not sure that I would get a chandelier. It will limit your ability to change your mind on where to place the table as the teenagers grow up and move out. I might look at cable lights or just leave the recessed lighting.


    As for color. . . I am a huge proponent of whole home color pallets. No room stands on it's own, the colors need to relate to the other colors in the home. I usually pick out 5-7 colors including a neutral, a white and 3-5 colors. I may use lighter and darker shades of the neutral and the colors.

    Some rooms have neutral walls, some have colored walls, some have colored upholstery and some neutral, but every room has variations of the same color pallet.


    I keep my colors in a notebook and when I shop for rugs, furniture, window coverings, shower curtains, towels, blankets, pillows, art work or other stuff I have a pallet that I am working from and know if it works with my color pallet or not.


    I always start my pallets from the items that must stay (things I either don't want to change or things I can't afford to change). Then I pick out colors that I love (for me - I love red purples, blue greens/green blues and reds that lean toward purple. I am not crazy about yellows, yellow greens, oranges or most blues) I take the colors that must stay and lay them out with the colors that I love and try to come up with combinations that work well together. Then I look for a neutral that works with what is already picked out and then I pick a white that works with the neutrals and colors. My neutral of choice is usually a taupe with some purple undertones.


    The end result is a home that has a feeling of harmony rather than a collection of disjointed rooms.




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  • 7 years ago

    most of rooms are white or grey, have lots of gold around the house. this is master, but upstairs. and this is a bathroom through kitchen. and that is a kitchen that shows from dining room.
    so more or less you can see the tone of the house.
    will that accent table work with my dining table. what about this other chandelier

  • 7 years ago

    Thank you for the pictures. I have a much clearer picture of your style.


    The bedroom is a very blue gray, and it is okay for bedrooms to be different, but I would be looking for a single wall color with a bit more warmth for the main part of the house, the dining room, kitchen, hallways and just have bedrooms bathrooms with different colors, but always colors that work with the neutral that you pick for the rest of the house.


    First thing I would do is prime the wall going toward the kitchen. Any color you put up on the dark gold beige wall is going to play off of that color and you can't really see what the color will look like.


    It is very difficult to pick colors from pictures on the internet. Colors render differently on each monitor and through each graphics card.


    From what I am seeing on my computer the first 4 colors I would try are SW Alpaca, Requisite Gray, Popular Gray and Versatile Gray.


    Paint samples on boards or order samples through https://samplize.com/

    Look at the samples next to your back splash in the kitchen, in the bathroom and in your bedroom before taking them into the dining room. They don't have to match the other rooms, but they need to be pleasing next to the colors in the other rooms.


    Seeing the pendant lighting in the kitchen and the mirror in the bathroom I now understand why you selected the first Chandelier. I like that better than the second one, but I am still not sure how you do an off center table and a single centered light above the table. It may be fine. I actually have an off center light over my desk in my office and it looks fine and supplies the light where I need it.


    I would test the look with some aluminum foil over a balloon with a long string that I could tape to the ceiling. I am a visual person - need to see things in the space. You can play with your fake chandelier to determine the size and shape that you like best.


    I don't know where your at with renovations, but the only other thing that I would caution is that you don't want to have different flooring in every room. If you do have something different it should look intentional. Combinations of tile in the kitchen and bathroom, carpet in the bedrooms and wood throughout the rest look intentional. My last home had tile throughout the main area of the home, but the previous owners had put down 4 different tiles. I made it work by keeping the ceilings and walls throughout that area all the same so the different flooring just gave some variety and it still looked cohesive, but it made it more challenging to decorate.


    I also would not do the accent table. I think it would be very busy next to the flooring which is already strongly patterned.





  • 7 years ago

    Jennifer, thank you for your help. the floring is same, but dpend on the light and wall color looks differently. below is my inspiration room for dining but having trouble to crate it.

  • PRO
    7 years ago

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