Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Dining Room Design Ideas
Tips to Brighten Up Your Dining Room
1. The dining room table is the central figure in a dining room. Give your old dining table a new appearance by repainting it. You can also have it varnished. Likewise, a new set of tablecloth will be most welcome. Try the modern ones that feature geometrical patterns. Explore with the colors, too. Try lighter and pastel hues.
You can also buy a new dining table and sell the old one. Modern dining room furniture offers varied styles and designs of tables. There are still the circular, square and rectangular shapes. But what is most interesting is the way they were made. Some tables are extendable. This is really fantastic, as you do not have to worry where to get another table if you have guests. Even when you host parties, these extendable types of tables will provide you more space for the food and dining ware.
A few were built with just a single base. Others are with glass tops. Choose what you think will work for you.
2. As for the dining chairs, these always go with the table, of course. If you will buy a new dining table, I suggest you buy the whole dining set. This will relieve you on the issue of blending furniture.
Contemporary dining chairs are now built with armrests, which are good for a small or medium-sized family. However, they are not suggested if you will have guests joining you for dinner. Most modern dining chairs are upholstered using leather or fabric. Some have stylish stainless steel base. You can also find chairs with a revolutionary design. They have an L-shaped stainless steel frame and upholstered in leather.
3. Show off your china, silver and glassware in a buffet or display cabinet. Choose one that has glass doors so your collection of dining ware displayed. A rectangular buffet is ideal because it can serve two purposes - as buffet table or as shelving furniture. Make its top interesting by displaying your pictures or have a vase and flower with scented candles.
4. Have a small bar. You do not need to invest into an expensive bar. Bar on coasters are perfect and trendy. They can easily be put on the side and be moved anywhere in the home.
5. Change the dining room lights. You can go for vintage lights if the theme is traditional or go modern with task or pendant lights. Chandeliers have adapted a new contemporary look these days.
6. Put some plants. Choose those that are easy to maintain especially if you are a busy bee.
7. Use blinds instead of curtains. Blend the color with the theme and the furniture.
8. Change your wall decors to a more interesting one.
9. Have some decorative boxes or baskets that can also serve as storage.
10. Most of all, give the dining room walls a new color. If the floor needs to be changed, then do so.
1. The dining room table is the central figure in a dining room. Give your old dining table a new appearance by repainting it. You can also have it varnished. Likewise, a new set of tablecloth will be most welcome. Try the modern ones that feature geometrical patterns. Explore with the colors, too. Try lighter and pastel hues.
You can also buy a new dining table and sell the old one. Modern dining room furniture offers varied styles and designs of tables. There are still the circular, square and rectangular shapes. But what is most interesting is the way they were made. Some tables are extendable. This is really fantastic, as you do not have to worry where to get another table if you have guests. Even when you host parties, these extendable types of tables will provide you more space for the food and dining ware.
A few were built with just a single base. Others are with glass tops. Choose what you think will work for you.
2. As for the dining chairs, these always go with the table, of course. If you will buy a new dining table, I suggest you buy the whole dining set. This will relieve you on the issue of blending furniture.
Contemporary dining chairs are now built with armrests, which are good for a small or medium-sized family. However, they are not suggested if you will have guests joining you for dinner. Most modern dining chairs are upholstered using leather or fabric. Some have stylish stainless steel base. You can also find chairs with a revolutionary design. They have an L-shaped stainless steel frame and upholstered in leather.
3. Show off your china, silver and glassware in a buffet or display cabinet. Choose one that has glass doors so your collection of dining ware displayed. A rectangular buffet is ideal because it can serve two purposes - as buffet table or as shelving furniture. Make its top interesting by displaying your pictures or have a vase and flower with scented candles.
4. Have a small bar. You do not need to invest into an expensive bar. Bar on coasters are perfect and trendy. They can easily be put on the side and be moved anywhere in the home.
5. Change the dining room lights. You can go for vintage lights if the theme is traditional or go modern with task or pendant lights. Chandeliers have adapted a new contemporary look these days.
6. Put some plants. Choose those that are easy to maintain especially if you are a busy bee.
7. Use blinds instead of curtains. Blend the color with the theme and the furniture.
8. Change your wall decors to a more interesting one.
9. Have some decorative boxes or baskets that can also serve as storage.
10. Most of all, give the dining room walls a new color. If the floor needs to be changed, then do so.
Dining Room Design
Tips for Dining Room Furniture Care
Having bought your handmade dining table and chairs, you will want to keep it nicely polished. Natural products like beeswax and oils are back in fashion. They are environmentally friendly, but generally not as durable as modern solvent based products. Polish manufacturers are constantly developing water based products, and oil and wax mixtures that are more durable to heat and moisture, while having little impact on our environment.
To care for your dining room furniture avoid silicon based products. Natural beeswax polish is good to use. Natural wax can come as a spray or a thicker paste from a tin. The thicker paste can be applied with a rag or a stiff brush, a shoe brush is good especially on carving. This can be buffed up with a soft rag, towelling is ideal.
A beeswax paste can easily be made using a 1lb of yellow beeswax and half pint of turpentine or good quality white spirit. By adding a tablespoon of petrol, you will speed up the drying of the wax, as it aids the evaporation of the turpentine. Beeswax can be bought from a local beekeeper, so look out for honey for sale. The wax can be shredded with a knife or broken into bits using a hammer. It is easier if you wrap the wax in a cloth first. The wax can then be melted in a saucepan, within another pan, like melting chocolate, but beware, you are using a flammable liquid near a heat source. I find that the easy way to make the paste is to put the broken bits of wax in a tin, add the white spirit, put a lid on and leave it for a day or two, stirring occasionally.
Try to avoid putting your dining table in direct sunlight. It will cause to wood to fade or even shrink. A fruit bowl left in the centre for sometime will end up with a darker area under it. If furniture is put in front of a window, it is worth closing the curtain or blind when direct sunlight is on the furniture.
Rings from hot cups, red wine and watermarks can often be removed by a professional polisher, but please be careful attempting to remove the mark yourself; you could end up with a bigger problem than you started with.
Gradually your furniture will age, taking the odd knock and dent as it becomes an antique, gaining patina from a build up of wax polish mixed with dust, creating darker areas in the corners and lighter areas in the high spots. It is worth knowing that over time, light woods darken, and dark timbers lighten, so your natural oak dining table will darken to a Tudor oak colour, and your deep brown walnut dining table will gradually become a honey colour.
Having bought your handmade dining table and chairs, you will want to keep it nicely polished. Natural products like beeswax and oils are back in fashion. They are environmentally friendly, but generally not as durable as modern solvent based products. Polish manufacturers are constantly developing water based products, and oil and wax mixtures that are more durable to heat and moisture, while having little impact on our environment.
To care for your dining room furniture avoid silicon based products. Natural beeswax polish is good to use. Natural wax can come as a spray or a thicker paste from a tin. The thicker paste can be applied with a rag or a stiff brush, a shoe brush is good especially on carving. This can be buffed up with a soft rag, towelling is ideal.
A beeswax paste can easily be made using a 1lb of yellow beeswax and half pint of turpentine or good quality white spirit. By adding a tablespoon of petrol, you will speed up the drying of the wax, as it aids the evaporation of the turpentine. Beeswax can be bought from a local beekeeper, so look out for honey for sale. The wax can be shredded with a knife or broken into bits using a hammer. It is easier if you wrap the wax in a cloth first. The wax can then be melted in a saucepan, within another pan, like melting chocolate, but beware, you are using a flammable liquid near a heat source. I find that the easy way to make the paste is to put the broken bits of wax in a tin, add the white spirit, put a lid on and leave it for a day or two, stirring occasionally.
Try to avoid putting your dining table in direct sunlight. It will cause to wood to fade or even shrink. A fruit bowl left in the centre for sometime will end up with a darker area under it. If furniture is put in front of a window, it is worth closing the curtain or blind when direct sunlight is on the furniture.
Rings from hot cups, red wine and watermarks can often be removed by a professional polisher, but please be careful attempting to remove the mark yourself; you could end up with a bigger problem than you started with.
Gradually your furniture will age, taking the odd knock and dent as it becomes an antique, gaining patina from a build up of wax polish mixed with dust, creating darker areas in the corners and lighter areas in the high spots. It is worth knowing that over time, light woods darken, and dark timbers lighten, so your natural oak dining table will darken to a Tudor oak colour, and your deep brown walnut dining table will gradually become a honey colour.
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