Dining Room Furniture - Creating Your Own Set
Dining Room Furniture - Creating Your Own Set
Dining room units are often sold as complete sets, with matching table, identical chairs, and matching china cabinets. But is this really necessary?
We can create cohesive dining room design from a collection of different pieces of furniture, if we use a bit of imaginative decor technique. Let's take the art of reclaimed wood as an example. Wood salvaged from torn down buildings is often recycled into beautiful new furniture. Since the wood used is from a variety of sources, it is often also a variety of types and colors. When used to make furniture, this often creates a spectrum of hues within a single piece of furniture, as well as a difference in texture from piece to piece within the set. In such a case, keeping the design or finishing consistent may be enough to tie the decor theme together cohesively.
One can also use very different styles of chairs around the same table, if you create a link using a single color pallet, or upholstery fabric on all of them. If you have four different chairs, each of a different shape, staining them all the same color, and tying identical seat cushions on them, or stenciling the same motif on the back of each, can make them all feel like a set, even if they are all different to begin with.
If a table is clearly made of an old wooden barn door, then collecting chairs that look like milking stools keeps the country decor theme consistent, without having to buy a matching set. If a table is made of a cross section of a tree trunk, seats made of cross sections of the large branches will appear to be a matching set, even if no two have the same exact grain pattern.
If chairs and table are all made of bamboo and rattan, the luster and hue will create a cohesive design, even if each chair and the table were from different manufacturers, and are shaped differently. The commonality in texture and color will create the symmetry, rather than the shapes.
Finally, if your furniture is hopelessly mismatched and/or hideous to look at, paint the legs all the same color, and then cover the chairs with slip covers that completely hide the chair, cover the table with a long draping table cloth, and cover the surface of the china cabinet with a runner. When the same fabric is used on all of them, the dining room decor will look like it was a matched set designed especially for you.
If the material is patterned, use the theme of the pattern in at least one item of art on the wall. For instance if it is a floral design, use a photo of a flower in that color pallet framed to accent the wall and tie the decor together. If the material is of a solid color, use that color in a picture or in a picture frame, on the wall. A dining room with a dark red fabric theme could have a photo of an antique car the same color, or a black and white photo with the frame painted in the same dark red hue. A dark red vase displayed on a shelf in the china cabinet, would further echo the decor theme.
If your Fabric is blue, then hanging rows of blue glass ornaments in the dining room window, and placing blue glass bottles in the china cabinet display, is enough to carry your decor. You can create a matched dining room set, just by draping everything in generous amounts of the same material, and adding a few carefully chosen accent pieces.
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