I hope you had a good weekend.

I’m in the midst of several back to back client projects which takes up a huge amount of my awake hours so I apologize for the sometimes sporadic posting schedule.  I love blogging and hate when the week runs away from me without posting.  Thought I would share what’s on my design radar. This week it’s dining rooms.  As I sign off on a couple of projects I will be starting on dining rooms for some clients.

If there is one piece of advice I have for anyone of you out there about to design your dining room it’s this…Don’t match the tables and chairs and don’t buy a set – mix it up!

Interior design Melissa Rufty

One of the main thing I like in all dining room designs is to NOT match table with the chairs. Sometimes I don’t even like to match the head chairs with the rest of the chairs.  Here is similar to what I have in our own dining room  – white wood chairs with brown table. Love the leopard chairs!

Betsey Johnson

Never tire of this superb color combination in Betsey Johnson’s apartment. The pale pink, with chartreuse silver chairs punctuated with black and white and crystals is perfect.

Here again a Swedish dining table with black wood chairs. Again unusual and great color combo. Sorry forgot the designer. Please leave in comment section if you know it.

Image via House Beautiful

Love the mix of blues with red chandelier and black floors.

Modern chairs, with ethnic carpet and classic table. I’m always drawn to the mix.

Interior design Summer Thornton

Glamorous and classic dining space.

Here I love the random choice of a bold red Chinese carpet with bold red chairs.

Image via Atlanta Homes

This pictures I’ve had for a while. Just somehow makes me happy. Happy design.

via Decorista blog.

The awesome light fixture and fabric on the chairs makes this an inspired space to me.

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