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Design your dining room with these stunning ideas
The focal point for entertaining.
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Elevate your dining room with five key design ideas to create a stunning focal point. Use statement lighting, like a sculptural pendant, to set the mood and add visual appeal. Define the space with colour—dark tones create a grandiose feel, while pastels offer a playful ambience.
Choose furniture that suits your lifestyle, such as a round table to encourage conversation. Consider creating an indoor-outdoor flow to extend your entertaining area and embrace biophilic design with natural materials for a relaxed atmosphere.
1. Statement lighting for the dining room
2. Use colour to enhance and define the dining room
This dining room in a home designed by Koia Architects combines dark tones with the tactility of timber to create an inviting space of rich layers. Image: John Williams.
3. Choosing the right furniture for your dining room
4. Bring the outdoors in
Large-scale openings create an easy flow between indoors and out in the 2021 Home of the Year, Black Quail, designed by Bergendy Cooke. Image: Simon Devitt.
5. Biophilic design for the dining room
Geode House, the 2023 Living Space of the Year, embraces natural materials to create a fitting tribute to the bush-clad site on Waiheke it inhabits.
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