5 Fresh Dining Room Layout Ideas

Designers share five original ways to rethink the traditional dining room arrangement.

By Susan Kleinman
Filed under: Dining Rooms, Dining Tables

Designer Teal Michel replaced the rarely-used large traditional dining table for two smaller glass-top tables to allow for more casual get-togethers.

If you can't decide whether to go for one big table or several little ones, why not do both — at the same time? "The most unusual table that I have done," says New York-based interior designer Roderick N. Shade, "is one that was a big square, but came apart to be four smaller tables to seat more folks in the dining room. The best part was that it was a very simple parsons-style table in a bright red lacquer surrounded by Chippendale-style chairs."

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