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If you have a dining room, what's it like, please?

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TheOriginalSteamingNit · 10/08/2015 10:41

Our dining room floorboards need re-doing, which is going to be a springboard into re-decorating it, and I'm looking for inspiration, please!

Last time we did it, we were also using it for working at home, but now have a small study so it can really just be for dining. But it's a biggish room and also a thoroughfare. Has large table with extender for Christmas and big meals - an old sideboard we only recently sanded and painted, so keeping that. Cupboards in the alcoves with some (eminently charity-shoppable, IMO) books on shelves above. French doors take up a lot of the back wall: it's quite a sunny room. Has been white with floorboards for a long time, but has become just the place where washing gets folded and meals are eaten about four times a week (there's a little table in the kitchen which can seat 2 and is used for breakfast as we're never all eating breakfast at the same time). It's a bit of a repository for crap really. Also has armchair which looks a bit random at the moment.

I really want it to look nice and interesting - as it's at the end of the hall, it's the first room you see when you open the front door, and it's a bit dull and crap at the moment.

Could you tell me what you use yours for, what you keep there and what you store there? And what farrow and ball colour(s) it is? TIA!

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TheOriginalSteamingNit · 10/08/2015 11:31

Bite for me, Mumsnet! Show me some lovely dining rooms.... Grin

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TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge · 22/08/2015 20:38

Wish I could say mine is lovely!

It's not a big one. Oak laminate flooring, light grey walls (Dulux Polished Pebble), plummy feature wall (Crown Armagnac), plummy satin curtains that I want to change, oak veneer dining table with faux suede chairs in the middle, oak computer desk complete with computer in one corner, jewellers bench plastered in loads of my tools and related clutter in another corner, some oil paintings on the walls and a smoke grey light shade.

I would make it more pretty if I had somewhere else to work

waitaminutenow · 22/08/2015 21:43

This is mine...it currently holds the pushchair (when its not in the car)and painting easel. Its quite plain but I like it. Can't remember the name if the paint though. Its a dulux paint . The floor is oak and so is the furniture....oops. the curtains are laura Ashley.

If you have a dining room, what's it like, please?
If you have a dining room, what's it like, please?
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