Approaching your home or apartment decoration can be daunting, but using a time-honored decor choice will stand you in good stead to have a beautiful and impressive home. This French country dining room style is an elegant and timeless option, with warm and deep wood tones, smooth and simple furniture lines, as well as warm lighting to make your guests feel at home. Dining room decor ideas in this stylish collection should begin with a graceful and approachable dining table and chairs, hanging lamps and curtains, and patterned old-world carpets, rugs, or throws. Large plants and flowers, vases or crockery, and paintings with older-style heavy frames complete this look, as they hint at country-style homestead living. This tasteful but stately approach to your dining room decor is something that will not go unnoticed by guests, and this French style is a classic choice.

If you are going to use this years hottest dining room colors in your home, I encourage you to have fun with bolder design elements such as artwork and accessories to enhance the look of the entire space. We rely on color to set the style and tone of a room, so when we blanket the space in a subtle nondescript tone, the overall look can suffer and move over to the boring category. It is imperative to bring in stunning dining room wall art, interesting furniture pieces, or even vibrant textiles to liven up the room. This room started with a very minimalistic foundation -- simple khaki walls accented by richly stained pine. The real pizzazz is generated through the funky dining room decor choices. A beautiful landscape piece mounted over the antique sideboard and paired with a lavish crystal chandelier may seem like an unexpected match to the rustic wood beams, but they actually blend beautifully together to add some fun and vibrancy to the overall style.

You could either be thinking of upgrading your dining room or designing a new one, a little research and planning goes a long way. Either case, if youre looking for some modern dining room ideas, you can sit up and relax because youre reading the right stuff. To make any room interesting, the first thing you can focus on is its walls. Be it the wallpaper or just a simple decor, this little change creates its own mark among the entire look. Break out of the monotony and update your dining room wall decor with contemporary-textured wallpaper. Earthy browns, neutrals, its your call. You need to complete what youve started, and what better way to do that than with accessories? Add an impact to your dining area by brightening it up with a modern lighting fixture. Vases and potted plants are also a great finishing touch to your dining room decor.

I love this contemporary dining room design because it is so bold in its simplicity. The monochromatic all white color palette is the perfect backdrop to the gallery of abstract art that the owner had in storage. You feel as though you are dining inside a museum rather than a private home. My favorite part of the modern dining room design is actually the plush blue rug beneath the table. The rest of the space has a stark and industrial feel, one that is cool but not particularly warm and inviting. The luxe rug brings a softness to the otherwise aloof decor scheme. This would actually be a very simple design to imitate in your home because the dining room decor is quite simplistic. Just start with an all white paint palette and contemporary dining set, then go wild with artwork (specifically canvases if you have them). Be sure to install either track lighting or recessed lighting to highlight the pieces and give it that museum style look.

Dining room table centerpieces are a fun final touch to your decor that can really help to anchor your design. I generally advise homeworkers to select one arrangement for year round use that coordinates well with the overall design scheme, then switch this one out during various holiday seasons or events for a more custom look. Having a rotating array of options keeps the decor fresh and is a great way to wow your guests each time they enter your home. The types of centerpieces you choose depends, in part, on the dining room ideas you have based the rest of the decor on. For example, if you have created an edgy modern space, a vase filled with wildflowers would likely not go with the overall motif. I suggest using the rest of your dining room decor as a guide, and create an arrangement that mimics or enhances the what is already there. In this lovely room, we added tall indigo bottles in the same hue as the table linens and artwork, then accented those with any arrangement of fresh greenery. The pair is simple, yet elegant, just like the rest of the interior design.