What does your dining room look like?

[rollonthesummer]

We've just had a new dining table and chairs (nothing fancy but nice) and the walls plastered and I want to do something to the rest of the room. At the moment it's quite plain-an oak floor, cream long curtains around the French doors and cream walls.

Can anyone describe theirs to me-or show me some inspirational picture!!

Are feature walls a bit last decade?! The room isn't huge so ideally I want something that makes it seem bigger!

Yes feature walls are a bit dated. Choose a different colour all over? Pictures on walls? Nice lighting - can have lights lower over the table.

We turned our dining room into a second living room/ play room, as the kitchen seats up to eight and if wouldn't have been used too often (ever) , It gets much more use that way, with a seperate tv, play station, X box etc and sofas and coffee table. When friends are over we eat in the kitchen.

I do like a feature wall, but I think the colours have to blend and it should be done because it suits the room and not just for the hell of it. So if you pick the right colours and the right wall it works,,,like one dark grey the others all pale grey, or all cream one chocolate brown, that sort of thing.

I think feature walls are very passé indeed.

Ours is just cream with very old stripped wooden cupboards that take up a whole wall, big sash window on a second wall and a piano on the third wall.

I don't do trends, just what I like, so I would tell you to do what you like, including a feature wall if that is what you want.

Full of ironing and coats - had to take them out of the back lobby because of condensation issues, so we just end up tripping over them, wherever they get put, at the moment!

Along the back wall we have floor to ceiling white billy book cases filling the entire wall. A mixture of books, picture frames, trinkets, plants and lights. I'm basically a slave to Pinterest school of home decoration.

Ours is pale green walls with a big painting of a stormy coastline, Habitat glass table with wooden legs, drinks cabinet, adjustable row of lights over table.

We eat in it once a year

Ours has Ivory walls and we have dark wood blinds at the windows. Pale carpet and dark table and sideboard. Folding doors along one wall opening up into the conservatory and family photos in the walls. Used daily as a dining room - no tv in there!

Ours is painted cream.

Has an IKEA Norden table. Stack of chairs in the corner. Two cat food mats on the floor in the shape of fish. Star Wars prints on one wall and a massive cabinet of Skylanders on the other.

Also has a staircase kind of leading off it and some hooks with school bags on.

Massive archway leads off to our extension/2nd living room and garden with some very 70s string curtains.

I'm not sure it's a look anyone with taste would emulate...

Mine has a continuation of the floor tiles from the kitchen, a wall of pictures, a wooden habitat (extendable) table and ikea chairs. We have one pendant light over the table plus a table lamp on the dresser that we use in the evenings. An upcycled dresser painted grey for 'posh' glasses and crockery and a small hemnes bookcase for recipe books and trinkets. In the summer I have flowers on the dresser, and about to put our winter fairy lights on there now. We eat in there most days.

Mine it tiny, but south facing so is a deep blue colour sort of like this dulux colour but I had mine mixed and it's Valspar.

Light oak table with dark grey upholstered dining chairs, white roman blind, light oak sideboard. 2 handpainted abstract pictures by me in white Ikea frames on the wall. And shortly, a large clock. Flooring is laminate which I don't like but priorities elsewhere mean it won't be changed for 12 months.

So basically, dark blue with white. It will have white floor length curtains soon just to frame out the window.