Dining room ideas to try on your own room

How to choose a dining room look

A dining room is used most in the evening, so start with the light over the table. Several of these ideas are built around one fixture, like an oversized paper pendant or a glass chandelier.

Then choose the table and chairs; they decide whether the room feels formal or relaxed. The walls come last. A dining room is a good place for a color you might not want in a bedroom, like the rust in the colour-drenched idea or the chinoiserie paper on a ceiling. If the dining room opens onto the kitchen or living room, choose a look that shares at least one color or material with the room next to it.

What these dining room ideas cover

Lighting-led: Dining Room with an Oversized Pendant, Dining Room with a Murano Chandelier and Candlelit Formal Dining Room. Color-led: Rust Colour-Drenched, Mushroom-Toned and Colour-Block Dopamine dining rooms, and the Dining Room with a Wallpapered Ceiling. Warm and rustic: Tuscan Long-Table, Beamed Farmhouse and Moroccan dining rooms. Wood: Espresso Wood Dining Room, Antique Dining Room with a Bar Cart and Vintage-Mix Dining Room. Light and simple: Scandinavian Dining Room, Sunroom Dining Room and Dining Room through an Arched Doorway. Moody: Speakeasy Dining and Card Room. Open any idea to see its color palette, the materials it uses and a few tips for getting the look, so you can borrow one part of it instead of the whole room.

Dining spaces without a dining room

Not every home has a separate dining room. Bay Window Breakfast Nook wraps a curved bench around a small round table, Eat-in Kitchen Dining Corner fits a table and four chairs at the end of a kitchen, and Bistro Banquette Dining Nook uses a corner banquette with chairs on the open side. A bench against a wall takes less floor than chairs on every side.

On a budget, Vintage-Mix Dining Room shows secondhand chairs from different decades around one modern table. A round table, as in the breakfast nook and the eat-in corner, is easier to walk around in a tight space.

Try an idea on your own dining room

Press "Design this" on any idea. The tool opens with the idea's room type and style already set, and the idea's image as the style reference. Upload a photo of your own dining room, taken in daylight from a corner or the doorway, and generate. The look comes from the idea; the walls, windows and layout come from your photo, so check the result and generate again if something has moved. You can also add a few words of your own, like "keep my grey sofa" or "lighter floor", to steer the result.

Lite is quicker and uses fewer credits; Max shows more detail and stays closer to your photo. New accounts get free credits to start, no card required.

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