A mixture of classic construction and modern European furnishings redefines mountain living in this second home in charming Lahontan in Truckee, California. Designed for an active Bay Area family, this home is relaxed, comfortable and fun.

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Great room - cottage great room idea in Austin

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Example of a large transitional light wood floor kitchen/dining room combo design in Atlanta with blue walls

Our client wanted to entertain more comfortably with better seating arrangements and a chic yet inviting vibe. The concept we created began with careful space planning and a cool, soothing color scheme. We then brought to life a new, sophisticated dining area anchored by an eye-catching contemporary chandelier. | Interior Design by Laurie Blumenfeld-Russo | Tim Williams Photography

Joe Fletcher Photography
Dining room - transitional dark wood floor dining room idea in San Francisco with white walls

Frenchmen's Club Mod by Krista Watterworth Design Studio in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Photography by Mark Roskams. This Old World home got a very modern update. We worked for months to create a beautiful, open and light space, and brought it into the now.

72 Round dining table made from mahogany solids and finisihed with walnut stain. There is little if any red in this table's finish. Rich flame mahogany field and banded with straight grain mahogany. Large and heavy 72 round mahogany dining table will seat 8 people with no shake or wobble. This is our heaviest and sturdiest 72 inch round table on our site. Table base is solid mahogany in a golden brown finish.

Joe Fletcher Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades. This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways. Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.

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Inspiration for a timeless medium tone wood floor dining room remodel in DC Metro with gray walls

Best of Houzz 2016 Dining Room Design winner. The custom built-in banquette allowed the breakfast nook to seat 5 people comfortably and not encroach on the walking space. Custom dark wood cabinet houses breakfast dishes. Wood and marble look alike porcelain tiles set on the diagonal add interest to a large floor space. The coffers on the ceiling create the same interest on the ceiling. Notice the 3 elephants holding up the table top. Michael Jacobs Photography

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Example of a mid-sized transitional dark wood floor kitchen/dining room combo design in Boston with gray walls

Custom live edge claro walnut table with industrial metal bases. Featured table is 8' long and 50" max wide. Littlebranch Farm
Inspiration for a large industrial medium tone wood floor kitchen/dining room combo remodel in Nashville with beige walls

This LH 5 table brings this customer's dining room together and looks great.
Large elegant dark wood floor enclosed dining room photo in Bridgeport with blue walls

An unexpected combination of cow skin seating and an architectural table design bring style to lakeside dining. Roy Weinstein & Ken Kast Photography

Brian Mihealsick
Example of a minimalist great room design in Austin

The casual dining area off the kitchen of this Vermont home is definted by the large iron open chandelier. The chairs are upholstered in a family friendly faux leather in robins egg blue. The carpet is by Landry & Arcari in Boston and the Kiki side chairs are by Mitchell Gold. The 60" dining table is by Tritter Feefer. The oil rubbed bronze caged chandelier is by Solaria. Photography by: Michael Partenio

Rectangular live edge dining table with brown leather dining chairs, rusted steel pendant lights, floor to ceiling espresso-stained wood sliding doors, off-white walls and ceilings and heart pine wood floors in modern farmhouse style home in rural Idaho. Photo by Tory Taglio Photography

Bess Friday
Dining room - transitional dining room idea in San Francisco with white walls

A potting bench turned dining table--The walls are an earth plaster finish..Published in NH Home--Interiors and styling, Lisa Teague Designs
Farmhouse medium tone wood floor dining room photo in Boston with beige walls