How to Decorate a Dining Room
The dining room is ultimately a generous interior. This is true whether that generosity is oriented toward an individual or a gathering: the dining table is a vehicle for special occasions, intimate connection, and everyday ritual all at once. Because of this, decorating a dining room is a uniquely personal endeavor. With adaptable pieces that have sustainable elegance at their core, FRAMA’s approach to a beautifully designed dining room offers pieces that adjust to any sensibility or aesthetic.
1. Find the perfect dining room tables
A practical and unique dining room table serves as the centerpiece of a dining experience, where meals are shared and daily rituals take place. Selecting a dining table that offers functionality as well as a touch of elegance to your dining room is essential for this multi-purpose space.
Take into account these elements when bringing a new dining surface into your space:
Size and Shape: First and foremost, consider the size of your dining room and the number of people you will typically be hosting around it. The shape of the dining table can define a room’s tone, as well as your and your guests’ movements around it. Choose from rectangular dining tables, round dining tables, or square dining tables depending on your particular space and how you move within it every day.
Materials and Finishes: The material and finish of your table is essential to defining the feeling of the room. FRAMA’s beautifully crafted dining tables emphasize a timeless sustainability in their material choices, whether in wood, marble, or a combination of both. These materials' natural textures and finishes add warmth and a tactile element to your dining space, particularly through the idea of the farmhouse aesthetic. What is farmhouse decor? The FRAMA approach to the aesthetic is about materiality above all else, and bringing a timelessness to its design with modern restraint. Whether through the Farmhouse pond-shaped table or a round-shaped dining table, or the refined simplicity of a square Farmhouse Table, rustic farmhouse decor embodies generosity in any dining space.
Versatility and Extendability: Consider the versatility of your dining table. If you host larger gatherings or often feel the need for extra table space, opt for extendable tables that can easily accommodate more guests. An easy way to always have room for one more.
FRAMA’s collections are made up of timeless dining tables that marry elegant form and everyday practicality, making sure they can adapt to any occasion. Discover Farmhouse dining tables and bring their shapes inspired by the natural landscape to your most multi-purpose interior spaces.
2. Elevate your dining room with timeless and comfortable dining chairs
Dining chairs play an essential role in ensuring both comfort and style in your dining room, as well as how guests will inhabit your space.
Here are some factors to consider when selecting dining chairs:
Function: Prioritize comfort when choosing dining chairs. Intimate gatherings require seating that offers support and comfort, as well as the right height and seat height of dining chair—and no reason to cut any gathering short.
Design: The design of your beautiful dining chairs will shape the overall look and ambiance of your dining room. FRAMA’s unique dining chairs are designed with sustainability in mind—their elegance is meant to adapt to your space over time.
For example, Chair 01 is a minimal addition to any space, where clean lines and understated elegance result in a confident piece. As an understated approach to the dining chair, they take their seat at the table with modern simplicity—in Natural Birch, Dark Birch and Warm Brown finishes, and also available as the Armrest Chair 01 for more traditional comfort.
For a more architectural addition to the dining experience, the Bracket Chair is a truly timeless chair that is pared down to its most essential, and the Folding Flat Chair folds down to a flat profile of four centimeters for wall hanging and ease of storage when space is limited.
Benches
When it comes to decorating your dining room, while traditional dining chairs may come to mind first, a more unconventional dining chair may offer something new to the space—both practically speaking and as an approach to its visual impression. A bench, for example, can offer a welcome surface when not in use for seating, and easily pulled to the table when a gathering expands. FRAMA's collection of unique benches including Bench 01 and the Bracket Bench are versatile approaches to seating that can become multipurpose pieces, and fit into any space with their minimal designs and emphasis on materiality.
Stools
A similar approach with a smaller footprint: dining stools can add a flexibility and a contemporary layout to the dining experience. FRAMA's stylish stools embody the perfect balance between modern elegance and practicality. The Adam stool creates a material match between solid wood and sleek metal, while the 01 Stool brings a geometric silhouette to your space. These dining room stools not only provide versatile seating options but can also become stand-alone objects in and of themselves.
Pairing
Pairing: Coordinate your dining chairs with your dining table—whether in contrast or in coordination—and with their surrounding interior. FRAMA's dining chairs are thoughtfully designed to complement any dining table, and together define a space that will create a setting for gatherings, celebrations, and daily routines alike.
3. Choose ambient, elegant lighting for the dining room
Congruous lighting is essential for creating the right ambiance in your dining room.Pendant lights are an excellent choice for dining rooms as they provide focused illumination with no physical footprint. Consider the height of your ceiling and the size of your dining table when selecting pendant lights, to build the right setting for your space. The FRAMA collection of curated pendant lights, from brass pendants to aluminum pendants, has a range of pieces to suit any dining environment. Table lamps offer a more traditional lighting approach—and versatility, too. For a more intimate gathering, candles can further define a space through scents from nature brought indoors.
4. Practical and stylish storage solutions
When it comes to decorating your dining room, day-to-day needs are as essential as setting a great table. With the right storage solutions, you can declutter your space, keep essentials within easy reach, and create a well-organized dining room without limiting aesthetic decisions.
Cabinets: Cabinets and sideboards are versatile storage solutions that not only provide ample space to store your dining essentials but also serve as eye-catching furniture pieces in and of themselves. Whether it's in a minimalist design or a rustic farmhouse-inspired look, these pieces meant for storage offer a combination of closed compartments and open shelving, suggesting the possibility of some plateware and design objects on display while keeping others stored and out of the way.
Wall-Mounted Shelves: To incorporate more opportunities to display special pieces and art objects in your dining space, display shelves or hutches are versatile in any interior. These storage solutions offer a practical way to keep your favorite pieces accessible and visible. FRAMA’s timeless wall shelves offer a balance of function and design, and these wall shelves or open shelves can bring vertical focal points to a room centered around the dining table. Crafted from durable and time-honored materials, our Shelf Library brings warmth to your space while providing ample storage options. The FRAMA Shelf Library is designed to suit any dining room, regardless of its size or style. Its modular nature allows you to customize and adapt the shelves to grow with your needs over time.
5. Elevate your dining room with thoughtful tableware
When it comes to decorating a dining room, details like modern tableware can elevate your dining experience in a way that is at once intimate and generous. Cutlery, glassware, ceramics, and other table elements can add aesthetic definition and personality to your dining room.
Cutlery
Cutlery is an essential part of any dining experience. The right set of cutlery not only enhances the visual appeal of your dining table, but is also an essential element of any occasion to gather around a table. With meticulous attention to detail, FRAMA’s cutlery collection sets your table in a manner that will define but never overwhelm the tone of a meal.
Glassware
Glassware adds a touch of sophistication to your dining table while serving a practical purpose. Whether you're hosting a formal dinner or enjoying a casual meal with family and friends, the right glassware can enhance the presentation of your beverages. At FRAMA we offer an extensive selection of exquisite glassware that adds a touch of artistry and sophistication to your drinking experience. Each glass is handcrafted in Europe, ensuring a tactile and unparalleled journey with every sip.
Ceramics
Ceramics bring a familiarity and versatility to any dining room decor. A set of ceramics can expand and contract to suit any dining needs—across plateware including bowls, plates, and cups that wear their materiality in their finish. The tactile pleasure of our timeless ceramics bring a simple warmth to the table that is suited to a domestic interior in its look and feel. From minimal plates to generous bowls, every piece is an object that welcomes others to the table.
Decorate your dining room with FRAMA
Decorating a dining room sets the table for daily rituals and special occasions alike, in one of the most public-facing and versatile of our private spaces. Bringing a mid-century modern approach into the contemporary, FRAMA's furniture, lighting, storage solutions, and tableware bring timeless design and sustainable elegance into a space that adapts to fill countless purposes from one day to the next, and from one morning to night.