Tag: dining room | Apartment Therapy

Setting The Table: 10 of the Best Candelabras

There's nothing like a large candelabra to add a sense of drama and intimacy to a dining table. From the popular Loop Candelabra to the more expensive but just as dramatic rod iron Spin Candelabra b...

Inspiration: Plants in the Dining Room

Winter may still be a month away, but it's cold and gray enough for us for us here in New England. Some indoor greenery would be an excellent way to make the chilly days ahead just a little more bea...

10 Serene Spaces

While I’m usually not a minimalist, the gloomy weather and the looming holiday frenzy have made me long for calm, light-filled spaces like the incredible black bathroom I photographed this week fo...

Round Tabletop Extenders

This isn't one of the sexiest design products you'll see on Apartment Therapy today but it could be one of the handiest, particularly as you make plans to entertain over the holidays....

The Grand Dining Rooms of the Newport Mansions
Newport, Rhode Island

Entertaining at Newport’s turn-of-the-century seaside “cottages” (read: “humongous mansions”) was clearly not a casual affair. But after last year’s austere holiday party season, we must...

Ideas for Pumping Up a Traditional Dining Room?
Good Questions

Q: We just bought a dining room table and chairs and we'd love some ideas on how to take the traditional dining room set and the room's mouldings and make it more funky and unique. Paint color, windo...

Survey: Assigned Seating at the Holiday Table?

Thanksgiving is fast approaching. And given that it's also Entertaining Month on Apartment Therapy, it seemed an appropriate time to see how you feel about assigned seating for dinner parties or h...

Can You Guess What This Is?

Hint: It's a fun solution for small space living. Answer with photo after the jump......

Locally Made Bowls Crafted from Fallen Trees

Spencer Peterman turns fallen, rotting trees into beautiful bowls that can stretch far beyond the kitchen. These natural beauties, filled with something colorful, could be used as permanent centerp...

Mismatched Curtains

With no one blinking anymore at chairs that don't match, or mixing decorating styles.. would you draw the line at mismatched curtains?...

Salvaged Wood Farm Tables by Lorimer Workshop

We’ve written about David Ellison of Lorimer Workshop’s tables on Apartment Therapy before, but since he is located right here in Rhode Island and we saw an excellent example of his handiwork in...

Family Chairs by Lina Nordqvist

Similar at first glance, the family chairs seem to reveal more unique characteristics the more we look at them. For those not quite ready to go with the mismatch chair trend these chairs offer a sli...

Cornishware Returns to Market

British tabletop classic Cornishware has been reborn! First produced in the 1920s by T.G.Green & Co, the company that made the collectible blue and white pottery classics (named for the blue sky and...

CB2 Teepee Dining Table with Secondhand Top

One of our favorite things to do is to take a mass produced item and make it more personal, by modifying it in some way. Here's how we did that to this CB2 table which is stocked with a glass table...

Illuminated Table from Boston-Based 30E Design

We've never been able to shake our love of this illuminated table that we spotted during Laurel and Hannah's House Tour a few months ago. Granted, we have a fetish for lighting and all things twink...

Placing a Mirror in Built-In China Cabinet

One of the delights of Boston multi-family architecture is the ubiquitous built-in china cabinet. Ours happens to be in the brightest room in our apartment so we decided to accentuate the light and...

Update to "Would You Block a Doorway?"

A while ago we posted a picture of our dining room that included a blocked doorway. Not surprisingly, some of you found this arrangement awkward and illogical. We're not typically ones to be undul...

Secret Dining Table!

We spotted this ingenious, submerged dining table in the current issue of Natural Home Magazine. Aaron and Meghan Powers, the designers, builders, and owners of this 836 square foot, passive solar,...

Good Questions: Unique Chairs for our Table?

We bought a modern table (white and chrome) that came with matching chairs. I would like to replace the current chairs and have 4 unique chairs instead. What is the secret to getting this look right? ...