The dining room gets overlooked when we start redecorating the house, we pay more attention to the living room and kitchen, resulting in a space that feels underwhelming and lacklustre. What do you even do with the dining room? We’re here to help with some inspiration and dining room ideas so you can get into action with a fun and characterful design.
1 – Use Natural Textures
Using natural textures throughout your interiors is a sure-fire way of creating a comforting and cosy atmosphere. The dining room should be a place to join together with friends and family to enjoy a meal or drinks, so it’s only fitting this space feels inviting and warm. The natural materials make us feel close to nature, which is where many of us feel calm and at home. Our Slate Way Tiles are a great way of doing this while maintaining a durable and practical space, at a great price. Tiles offer the look and feel of certain materials like marble, slate and wood while being much easier to maintain and look after, perfect for the dining room that is prone to food drops and spills.
Above, Slate Way Green Matt Porcelain Floor Tiles
2 – Go for Dark and Moody Schemes
Deeper and darker schemes create quite a close and intimate setting for a moodier luxurious dining room atmosphere. They feel more sophisticated and expensive, exuding a modern look and feel. Introduce dark textures and surfaces throughout the dining room to achieve this look, ensuring you introduce plenty of texture to maintain depth and character within the space. Our Dark Grey Lithos tiles work great at maintaining that level of depth, as not only are they in a modern geometric hexagon format, but they also feature an elegant marble design across the face, enhancing that feeling of luxury.
Above, Lithos Dark Grey Hexagon Matt Marble Effect Porcelain Wall and Floor Tile
3 – Warm Woods
To reintroduce a sense of comfort and familiarity, warm wood textures throughout the space are perfect. Wood floors remind us of that family home we all feel comfortable in, and welcome a comfortable atmosphere. This is perfect for getting the family together, ensuring everyone feels at ease and cosy in the room. Compliment wood floors with bright colours throughout the rest if the space for a light and airy scheme, or with deeper, richer tones for a luxurious style. Our variety of Engineered flooring makes it easier than ever to have wood floors throughout the home, even in the kitchen and dining room, as shown by our Medio Rustic Oak Engineered Flooring.
Above, Medio Rustic Oak Engineered Flooring 14mmx130mm Lacquered
4 – Bright and Vibrant
Letting lots of natural light flood into your interiors allows for an open and welcoming space, that doesn’t feel closed off or cramped. The natural light boots a certain happiness in us all and makes the room feel lighter and bigger. Not only this, but it also reintroduces that feeling of being close to nature, which so many love. The larger the windows in your room are, the more you have to look out on, which can feel so peaceful and tranquil over your breakfast first thing in the morning. Compliment with light wood flooring for a bohemian look and feel, or with darker tiles for a modern and contemporary space.
Above, Grande Light Oak Engineered Flooring 14x180mm Oiled
5 – Kitchen Complimentary
It’s getting more and more popular by the minute to have an open-plan kitchen and diner space in our homes, and we love it! It creates the opportunity for a truly modern and contemporary space that you can deck out with plenty of furniture and accessories to let your character shine. Compliment your dining furniture so tables and chairs, to the furniture you’ve welcomed into your space. Always ensure your table and chairs works with your kitchen, rather than your kitchen working with your table and chairs, as these are so much easier to replace and switch out if your style changes.
Above, Titanio Grafito Floor Tile
6 – Dress the Table
An exciting way to spruce up your dining room that requires minimal time is to ensure your table is always dressed and ready to go. We don’t mean with a T-shirt and trousers, but rather with dinner sets, cutlery and centrepieces. It creates a sense of true luxury and expense and complements the rest of your space beautifully. It also gives you the opportunity to get creative and switch out the theme of your table depending on the time of year. Your Christmas set-up can have reds and golds with sparkly bits throughout, whereas your summer setup allows the opportunity for pastels and pretty plants.
Above, Manari Soft Bianco Concrete Effect Wall and Floor Tile
7 – Round Tables for Social Situations
There’s nothing worse than being sat around the table with a large group of people, and you can’t talk to who you want to as they’re right the other end of the table. A way of combatting this and creating a more sociable environment is to utilise a round table, which makes it easier for everyone to communicate with one another. Not only this, but you can also create a beautiful centrepiece to the room, drawing the eye to the main event. Compliment with various patterns and styles throughout the rest of the space for a truly luxurious feel.
Above, Lester Blue Floor Tiles
There you have our top dining room ideas! We hope we’ve inspired you enough to get stuck into the design of the overlooked room, and can create something worth showing off! Don’t forget to tag us in pictures of your completed space over on Instagram, @Tilemountainuk, we love seeing our products in your homes!
