Create a Warm and Inviting Atmosphere
in Your
Dining Room with these
Beautiful Dining Room Decorating Ideas
Start By Dressing Your Walls:
You can set yourself apart by researching some creative and unique dining room decorating ideas that will not only set the stage for elegant
dinner parties in your home but will also be a very enjoyable, exciting and rewarding activity for you and your family.
This is because the dining room is often designed as the most elegant room in the home and not only do you have the opportunity to select more equisite wall coverings, but you can also select from a wider array of more sophisticated and elaborate wall decor items than with any other room in your home.
Choose Your Color Palette:
While the choice of a color palette for the dining room is a personal one, the selection of rich warm colors is often the most popular choice.
Earth tones are also an excellent choice as they set up a play-it-safe neutral palette that can be used as a backdrop to showcase a beautiful painting or other prized wall decor while matching well with other rooms visible from the dining room.
For example, red is a rich dramatic color which is said to stimulate the appetite and invite animated conversation between the diners at the table.
You may have noticed that restaurant walls are often decorated in shades of red and that's because the restaurateur want the patrons to be stimulated by the atmosphere so that they hopefully indulge themselves in lots of alcohol, appetizers, entrees and desserts.
This interesting Asian dining room with it's rich red walls and unique eye-catching groupings of decorative wall plaques is a perfect example of a warm and inviting color palette that enhances the atmosphere in the room for a pleasurable dining experience
If you're looking for unique and charming dining room decorating ideas an Asian style might be right up your alley.
Wallpaper or Paint:
Once again the choice to wallpaper or paint your dining room depends largely on your personal taste and partly on the style of your home, the extent of the makeover and of course your budget.
We've said this many times throughout this website, nothing beats a fresh coat of paint. It's a great do it yourself project as it's the easiest, fastest and least expensive way to dramatically transform and liven up your room
.If you have a large room to paint, very little time and you can afford to hire a crew of professionals to paint your dining room, then you can expect to see a beautiful and freshly painted cleaned up room by the end of the day.
Faux finishes are also a wonderful dining room decorating idea for your walls and can be as simple as sponging, rolling, ragging or pouncing a single color on the wall or elaborate as combining several of these techniques and using any number of colors.
If you've never tried any of these techniques before, we advise that you first test it on some sample boards.
Of course hiring a professional might be the way to go if you just have to have the faux look and you don't have the time or the desire to learn the technique.
Of course wallpaper is still another viable option to consider as well as being one of the most popular dining room decorating ideas for your walls.
Here you have thousands of beautiful designs from wonderful natural textures to lovely botanicals to creative geometric patterns to faux finish wallpapers, the choices are only limited by your imagination.
A formal dining room like this one pictured here which is decorated in a charming combination of wainscoting and wallpaper gives the room a rather traditional look and feel.
Wall space in dining rooms typically includes at least one large wall where you can create a great focal point by displaying a beautiful mirror and some framed art as shown here.
As an alternative, and another great dining room decorating idea would be to add a matching pair of beautiful wall sconces on either side of this mirror that would catch the eye and look very elegant.
Still another way to decorate this room would be to add an interesting wall mural instead of the wallpaper. You could paint the remaining walls to coordinate with the mural.
This subtle and intricately designed oriental mural would fit beautifully into many dining room interiors and would blend very well with a light peach colored walls.
Wall murals make a scene stealing focal point in any room and they come in almost any design or theme you you could possibly dream up. They are easy to install and just as easy to remove and will blend well into almost any color scheme
.Faux finish wallpapers also look wonderful and are a great dining room decorating idea for your walls.
You can combine coordinating colors and styles to create an lavish and luxurious look as seen in this dining room.
With this type of wall treatment an equisite wall decor mirror would also be the perfect complementary accent to complete your wall design.
Architectural Elements for Bland Walls:
Here's another category of sometimes overlooked wall decorating elements that can add special interest and a designers touch to those otherwise uninteresting and boring walls and is one of the most unique, suitable and attractive dining room decorating ideas.
Designer moldings can add a perfect finishing touch to your dining room walls especially if you're striving for a more elegant look.
They come in all kinds of different styles such as rope, bead, leaf, greek key and in different finishes such as wood, veneer and plaster.
You can easily add a chair rail as a divider for two wall colors or you could install wallpaper or a mural on the upper half of the divided wall and wainscoting on the lower portion of the wall.
This lovely decorative pineapple pediment would dress up your doorway and can be used alone as a lovely accent piece or it can very easily be combined with complementary pilasters as shown here.
In addition pilasters can be used for framing large mirrors and dividing wall areas as well as making an elegant window trim.
Decorative cornices, brackets, wall niches and friezes also fit into this wall decor category and all come in a lightweight polyurethane material that is easy to install and paint.
When looking for elegant dining room decorating ideas architectural elements can add a captivating effect and are definitely a consideration if you're looking for a lot more detail and traditional appeal for your dining room.
Make a Statement with Beautiful Wall Hangings:
The dining room wall is the perfect place to showcase beautiful wall hangings. Following are some dining room decorating ideas to make your choices easier:
- Tapestries, quilts and rugs with elaborate designs add rich color and texture to your room.
- Bas relief sculptures available in several different mediums are unusual and striking and make great conversation pieces.
- If you can afford it original artwork makes a great focal point. One very large painting on canvas, or a two or three panel piece will add dramatic beauty and make a lasting impression.
- Framed black and white photography and watercolors are generally less expensive yet very eye appealing.
- Wall sconces and wall lights are very attractive and help to brighten up dark areas as well as enhance wall art and mirrors. Definitely one of the most attractive dining room decorating ideas.
- Iron and metal screens, trellises and wall plaques make an interesting and impressive wall display especially when grouped together for an old world look.
- Metal wall plaques and clocks fit right into contemporary dining rooms and make unique and stunning focal points on your walls.
- Displaying sentimental items such as family photos in a beautifully framed collage or a framed family tree will give a unique personal touch to your dining room and always make for interesting conversation during social gatherings.
