Monday, August 27, 2018

Reinforcing Your Dining Room Decor for Your Next Social Gathering


We know how it goes: after decades of hosting your family gatherings, somebody’s passed this honorary designation onto you. Now you’re scanning over your dining room furniture and asking yourself, ‘Who would be impressed by this?’ If your own scenario is anywhere close to this, you can relax—we’ll take it from here, as we guide you through the process of revamping everything in your dining room, for the largest and most splendid dinners, all on a reasonable budget.

dining room set with bench

Start Decorating with a Cohesive Dining Room Set

Luckily for homeowners and decorators, the endeavor of redecorating the dining room is greatly aided by the existence of matching dining room sets. With a single purchase, you can transform the atmosphere of your space, and align its aesthetic around a dining room table and chairs that naturally complement it. Imagine how your guests and family will feel, being asked to sit down at a vintage dining room table—newly finished and gleaming with plenty of style. The cohesion of a dining room set dramatically and effectively influences the atmosphere of the room in your favor.

 dining room side chair

Allow for Seating with Side Chairs and Dining Benches

Although we may often overlook this, one of the real tricks to a successful social gathering: the positions of your guests at the dining table. If you want to spur conversation and smooth out the evening as much as possible, seat the most amiable and talkative people at least a chair or two apart. Newlywed couples, being inseparable, will prefer to be seated side-by-side, in which case your best bet for them would be: a comfortable and cushy dining bench. Be mindful of how long you intend to serve dinner in your dining room, and ensure your seating caters to this. 

 dining room buffet

Beautiful Dining Room Buffets Seal the Deal with Guests

With all the dining room essentials out of the way, get bolder and more creative. A finely finished dining buffet can do more than impress your family—it can give you ample room for extra dishes and courses of food, minimizing all those extra trips back and forth into your kitchen. Given the size of the average dining buffet, it’s also a terrific way to reinforce the theme, or aesthetic of the dining room, while also appearing practical.

Knowing all of this, don’t hesitate to visit our furniture store in Athens, Texas to update all your dining room decor, at a price that caters to you.