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I really like this look for a beach house. It is so bright and airy. The chairs are incredible - rattan, raffia, and lucite. I found some on 1st dibs and of course they are vintage and a zillion dollars. Someone needs to start making these. They are circa 1975.
Great choices here - the table is covered with a tailored and elegant table skirt in gray linen and styled with a blue and white Chinese vase filled with palm fronds (that echo the wallpaper) and coffee table books. I love the library dining room look. I like the sleek black console table with a pair of green lamps. Using the wallpaper on the lower part of the walls keeps it from being overwhelming and accentuates the height of the ceilings. The Palladian window and door are stunning.
This space can be a dining room, a sun room, a library, an office - I love its versatility. Since I'm looking for a smaller house, this idea would be wonderful for me - a room that you use in different ways. Now I am fixated on those chairs - but not for $30,0000.
Those chairs are to die for! At 30k thankfully I can only dream. The 70s did so many cool things with lucite. Those chairs look like they weren't ever reasonable, even in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, maybe some will fall into my lap down here. I'd love these or Frances Elkins loop chairs for the dining room.
DeleteAgree that the room is airy, elegant and versatile. When I redid our kitchen, I annexed some of the living room and turned the former dining room into a library, den, kitchen. I call it our "retirement apartment" and it occupies the entire length of the first floor. Knocking down walls and putting up a new wall wasn't in my husband's comfort zone! Now he loves it. Think how you want to live, not what the house says you should do.
ReplyDeleteSuch good advice. Especially true for many people with formal dining rooms and guest rooms that go unused. Design your home for how you live 360 days of the year, not 5.
DeleteI also like the wallpaper pattern only on the lower part of the wall...it does make the room seem so airy.
ReplyDeleteYes, it works perfectly.
DeleteI'll take the room with those amazing features-- high arched ceiling, tall windows wall murals and stone (travertine?) floor. You could pretty much do anything there....it's like a beautiful, tall, exquisitely proportioned model who could get away with wearing a flower sack and still look amazing.
ReplyDeleteQuite true.
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