Pick a dining chair that isn’t going to get stained or dirty. You want something you can easily clean, like walnut or metal. Keep extra chairs on hand for when a couple more people than you expected show up at your dinner party.
Tips
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How to Pick a Dining Chair
There are two ways to look at this. First, if it’s just you and your family, you want to have something comfortable but not too lounge-y. If you’re more of an entertainer and…
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Buy a Dining Table with Options
People so rarely have a sit-down meal that a true dining table is not always necessary; it’d be like a football stadium where you only play eight games a year. Do an eat-in kitchen table or…
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Make an Investment in Your Dining Room Lighting
The dining room pendant light is a wonderful place to make a big splash. Make this a strong focal piece and search for something you love, as if you were buying a painting for an important wall…
Articles
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Fine Finnish: Living/Dining Room
The focal point of the living/dining room is an oak table from Ikea. “We like to draw, read newspapers, sew, and invite friends over, so a generous table suits our lifestyle.” No couch…
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Gaffney House Dining Room
For their weekend home in Sharon, Connecticut, architect Lynn Gaffney and her husband, Bill Backus, filled their natural wood "shack" with eBay finds and classic modern design pieces.
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Dining In, Dining Out
Once while dining at a minimal-chic German restaurant in San Francisco, my date marveled at the elegant simplicity of the mid-century-modern salt and pepper shakers on our table.
Products
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Enfield Shaker Dining Chair
Though the residents of the last working Shaker village may have set aside their tools, you can still get your fix of elegant simplicity from the replicas produced by Shaker Workshops. The slightly…
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Dining Table
Dining tables serve a pretty fundamental function—–a place to consume our peas and carrots. But what if the meat and potatoes of your table occur beneath the flat surface? The latest…
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Adaptable Dining Table
Mixing and matching might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re deciding on a dining table, but Muuto’s mutable options allow for a fully customizable fixture. TAF…
Dwell Collections
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A Look at Dining Rooms
We enjoyed revisiting our archives to find some of our favorite examples of modern dining rooms. Some are tiny and some are fantastical, but all are rooms that we wouldn't mind breaking bread in…
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18 Dining Tables
Pull up a chair and feast on this collection of tables, prepared using only the freshest ingredients from our archives.
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