Even a tiny dining room can serve-up big style. Check out these tips for routing traffic, tweaking the basics, and packing lots of function into a small space.
Sink-In Comfort
Create your own custom banquette by using a sofa as bench-style seating. Surrounded by a spacious table and four chairs, this banquette nook is ready for everything from morning coffee to formal dinners to family game night.
Curves, Please
Round pedestal tables are great fits for small eating spots. For starters, they make it easier to squeeze in a few extra dinner guests than square tables because there are no legs to knock knees against. They also allow the eye to travel through the room. This setting takes that idea one step further with a barely-there glass tabletop.
Top of the Mornin'
This breakfast nook is a tight fit, but it expands its dimensions by drawing the eye up to a display shelf above the window and a charming chandelier.
Bench Press
A single pedestal table allows legroom for all in this cozy breakfast nook. As a bonus, drawers that open from the back of one banquette bench keep children's toys handy.
The Sky's the Limit
Covering the lower two-thirds of the walls in the petite dining room with beaded board visually raises the low ceiling while creating a decorative ledge for displaying artwork. Painting the ceiling the same color as the upper walls completes the illusion.
Stretch Your Boundaries
Hanging a piece of artwork with a horizon line in it on a blank wall gives you the illusion of depth. The vertical height of this painting helps, too. Beautiful landscapes with strong horizontal lines work best to produce this visual trick.
Cozy Retreat
Decorate with multitasking in mind and you can create a space that's part breakfast room, formal dining room, library, and office. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases, wicker chairs, and treasured collectibles help this room move smoothly from task to task.
Mixed Company
Gather an assortment of seating styles around a table and your dining room will issue a relaxed, come-as-you-are invitation. Black unites the various chairs in this breakfast area, and splashy orange cushions and eyelet slipcovers soften hard lines.
Light Appetite
Transparent polycarbonate chairs and a white-painted table visually recede in this dining room, allowing the open floor plan to feel light and bright. To add architectural interest, a fireplace surround was attached to one wall. Blue tiles grouted to plywood for easy installation visually ground the setting.
A Cozy Corner
A half-round table carves out eating space in the tiny kitchen below and does it with style and comfort, thanks to two oval-back armchairs. A slab of slate stands in as a message board, adding bistro buzz.
Perfect Fit
Sometimes hefty furnishings are the best solution for a too-tight space. A 9-foot settee stretches the length of this room and two bulky side chairs snuggle up to a faux-stone table. Voila! The boxy area is turned into a warm and welcoming hideaway for entertaining or relaxing. The thin shelving units add to the cozy feel.
Formal Attire
Outfit a room to double as dining and sitting space by gathering upholstered pieces around a small table. A floor-length tablecloth gives this piece its own upholstered look and adds a romantic touch.
Finding Center
Subtle details can define a dining space as its own room even if it's not. A suspended drum shade anchors the dining area and a tall potted tree delineates the traffic path to it.
Pull Out the Stops
A simple drawer adds so much to the functionality of a small table, letting you keep place mats and napkins always at the ready. Situating the table against a wall saves floor space, too.
Slim Down
Make the most of limited space with a long and lean dining table. Armless side chairs sidle up to this pine table, making it possible to seat six or more comfortably, something that would be impossible to do if the chairs had arms.
Sweet and Curvy
With a round table, there's always room for an extra chair, especially one that's armless, so opt for curves when flexibility matters most.
Stylish Options
It's always nice to have extra seating on hand when company's coming, but storing extra dining chairs takes up lots of space. This dining room includes a narrow bench topped with pillows, so it's always fashionably dressed and never short on hospitality.
Sink-In Comfort
Create your own custom banquette by using a sofa as bench-style seating. Surrounded by a spacious table and four chairs, this banquette nook is ready for everything from morning coffee to formal dinners to family game night.
Curves, Please
Round pedestal tables are great fits for small eating spots. For starters, they make it easier to squeeze in a few extra dinner guests than square tables because there are no legs to knock knees against. They also allow the eye to travel through the room. This setting takes that idea one step further with a barely-there glass tabletop.
Top of the Mornin'
This breakfast nook is a tight fit, but it expands its dimensions by drawing the eye up to a display shelf above the window and a charming chandelier.
Bench Press
A single pedestal table allows legroom for all in this cozy breakfast nook. As a bonus, drawers that open from the back of one banquette bench keep children's toys handy.
The Sky's the Limit
Covering the lower two-thirds of the walls in the petite dining room with beaded board visually raises the low ceiling while creating a decorative ledge for displaying artwork. Painting the ceiling the same color as the upper walls completes the illusion.
Stretch Your Boundaries
Hanging a piece of artwork with a horizon line in it on a blank wall gives you the illusion of depth. The vertical height of this painting helps, too. Beautiful landscapes with strong horizontal lines work best to produce this visual trick.
Cozy Retreat
Decorate with multitasking in mind and you can create a space that's part breakfast room, formal dining room, library, and office. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases, wicker chairs, and treasured collectibles help this room move smoothly from task to task.
Mixed Company
Gather an assortment of seating styles around a table and your dining room will issue a relaxed, come-as-you-are invitation. Black unites the various chairs in this breakfast area, and splashy orange cushions and eyelet slipcovers soften hard lines.
Light Appetite
Transparent polycarbonate chairs and a white-painted table visually recede in this dining room, allowing the open floor plan to feel light and bright. To add architectural interest, a fireplace surround was attached to one wall. Blue tiles grouted to plywood for easy installation visually ground the setting.
A Cozy Corner
A half-round table carves out eating space in the tiny kitchen below and does it with style and comfort, thanks to two oval-back armchairs. A slab of slate stands in as a message board, adding bistro buzz.
Perfect Fit
Sometimes hefty furnishings are the best solution for a too-tight space. A 9-foot settee stretches the length of this room and two bulky side chairs snuggle up to a faux-stone table. Voila! The boxy area is turned into a warm and welcoming hideaway for entertaining or relaxing. The thin shelving units add to the cozy feel.
Formal Attire
Outfit a room to double as dining and sitting space by gathering upholstered pieces around a small table. A floor-length tablecloth gives this piece its own upholstered look and adds a romantic touch.
Finding Center
Subtle details can define a dining space as its own room even if it's not. A suspended drum shade anchors the dining area and a tall potted tree delineates the traffic path to it.
Pull Out the Stops
A simple drawer adds so much to the functionality of a small table, letting you keep place mats and napkins always at the ready. Situating the table against a wall saves floor space, too.
Slim Down
Make the most of limited space with a long and lean dining table. Armless side chairs sidle up to this pine table, making it possible to seat six or more comfortably, something that would be impossible to do if the chairs had arms.
Sweet and Curvy
With a round table, there's always room for an extra chair, especially one that's armless, so opt for curves when flexibility matters most.
Stylish Options
It's always nice to have extra seating on hand when company's coming, but storing extra dining chairs takes up lots of space. This dining room includes a narrow bench topped with pillows, so it's always fashionably dressed and never short on hospitality.
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