The function that the dining room serves in the house definitely moved in the last few decades. There are no more dining rooms that must not be ultra formal and reserved exclusively for special occasions. Today’s dining rooms are much more affordable and more ventorial, more professional.
Below, three interior designers speak five different characteristics of the dining room that they think they are most obsolete. Most of them have to do with the ornality and formality, which simply does not require houses today. Continue reading to find out what types of pieces to remove from your ASAP dining room (and what should you weave instead!).
Traditional matching dining room
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Diningers containing a heavy, formal table with the appropriate set of chairs will be visible as obsolete, Laura Lubin, the founder of Ellerslie interior, explains.
“Although once a symbol of luxury, these sets often feel too rigid and less calling into modern houses,” she says.
Eve Jean, the founder of the style of my design space, agrees with Lubin’s feelings. When everything is perfectly matching, it can feel like a furniture salon frozen on time, says Jean. These days they do not feel so locked in one particular look when buying for dining tasteers, the designer adds.
“Mixing different styles or equipment for relaxed, occasional seating promotes conversation and connection, not formality,” Jean explains.
Don’t forget to cause a variety of textures to your dining area. Kaylee Pauley, the founder of Kaylee Pauley interiors, explains how a wooden carved dining table with modernly upholstered chairs or antique host chairs introduces a richer design narrative.
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Furniture sets
Lubin touched the weight of the formal dining tables of the past, which is something Jean is looking for clean in today’s spaces.
“The glued wooden sets were great when the dining room were separate, formal spaces, but in today’s houses open concepts, only the valuable space” says Jean.
He recommends that he decides to smooth, mixed tables of mixed materials so that he would not avoid their dining room to feel like a boring garden.
Big, decorated chandeliers
The appropriate dining room is not the only characteristic that Lubin believes will be too formal for today’s spaces. It also encourages people to skip oversized, decorated chandeliers who have characterized the dining room of the past.
“These once commanders now feel a little too much and can dominate the room in a way that doesn’t fit in the current trend of minimalism and simplicity,” she says.
Instead, Lubin encourages people to buy a schedule that are more subtle in design to achieve a cleaner, more relaxed feeling.
Formal window treatments
Formal window treatments are another decorative function that is not needed in today’s dining rooms, Pauley states. Great validity and heavy fabric can weigh the room down blocking natural light, which can make the dining room look old-fashioned, Pauley says.
Instead, try some simple Roman shades (you can even if you have DIY), or bedding, the designer suggests, explaining that these options will look elegant and enable the natural light to enter the space as desired.
Wall-wall carpet
There are some dining rooms in the past with the goals of the wall wall, but Lubin is not an advocate of this design decision for several different reasons. Lubin explains how difficult it is to maintain and are not deprivated, for today, for today, not surfaces can be cleaned for today.
However, it adds, there are many floors capabilities that can instead consider the range of hardwood floors to tiles to rugs from the area. Of course, how it relates to rugs from the area, selecting the option that can be washed is always smart, given that food can be lowered directly from the table to the floor. These days, many merchants offer elegant, simple options of rulers that are ideal for dining.