We all love the dining room! It’s where we come together to eat, socialise and spend time with the family. Finding the right balance between a colourful dining room and a sophisticated aesthetic isn’t always easy.
To help inspire you with some colour ideas for your dining room, here are 12 easy and affordable ways in which you can add some colour.
How To Add Colour to Your Dining Room
- Colourful Rugs
One of the simplest ways in which you can easily infuse colour and warmth into your dining room is through a colourful rug. Of course, there’s plenty of options available, from luxurious Persian-style carpets to bold coloured rugs and everything in between. With a wide range of price points as well, there’s a colourful rug solution for just about any budget and home.
- Window Furnishings
Moving away from the floors of your colourful dining room, consider how to use your window furnishings to great effect. Bold coloured drapes or curtains adorning a dining room window can add a truly elegant and appealing effect to the entire room. Plus, by moving the feature colour away from the dining table and towards the window, you can more easily balance the aesthetics of your dining room.
- Accessorise
Using accessories allows you to infuse many different colour ideas for your dining room. Whether you opt for a bold yellow lamp or choose faux indoor plants to add a bit of greenery, there’s a lot of room for personal creativity and the perfect balance of boldness and subtlety. Another benefit of accessorising is that you can change it up as you see fit without having to commit to any one colour scheme or design style for your dining room indefinitely.
- Greenery
While we’re on the topic… If fake plants aren’t quite your style you can go for the real deal. Indoor pot plants and other greenery–including flowers, though expensive to maintain–can add a sense of vibrant life when delicately adorned in a dining room. It can be hard to balance a colourful dining room without overdoing it, and natural greenery is one of the best options for striking that elusive balance.
- Tableware
A dining room table needs tableware, and your utensils, plates, bowls and serving dishes provide the perfect opportunity to inject a bit of pop and colour. How bright and bold you go is really up to you. At the end of the day, there’s enough variety of tableware and utensils on the market that you can mix and match until your heart’s (and eye’s) content!
- Artwork
The walls of your home offer a lot of potential for colour ideas for a dining room. Artwork is so vast in its style, colour and aesthetic that you can find the right piece of art that suits your chosen design. A classy displayed piece of art can add depth and sophistication to just about any dining area and will often not just introduce a bit of colour, but can also act as a central topic of conversation with dinner guests.
- Ignored Spaces
Many homeowners don’t realise the opportunity the forgotten or ignored spaces in their dining room offers. It might be recessed bookshelves that can be adorned with brightly-spined books or feature a painted backdrop, a corner of the room that can house a colourful sofa, or even spaces that can sport throw pillows or a similar accessory to add a bit of colour to the space.
- Statement Lighting
The lighting in your dining room serves such a practical purpose one can often forget the many opportunities available for infusing colour. Statement lighting, whether it’s an ornate chandelier or a bold blue or green pendant light, can make a huge impact thanks to its central placement without becoming too distracting.
- Colourful Furniture
Among some of our favourite colour ideas for dining rooms are colourful furniture. By incorporating either colourful chairs that pop and make a bold statement, or a colourful table (and, yes, natural stone table tops do come in a variety of colours as well!) you can create a magnificent aesthetic for your family, friends and visitors to enjoy.
- Differently Coloured Chairs
If you’re looking for something a little more bold and unique, you can even consider choosing different coloured fabric chairs. Having an array of colours around your table will help to make everything come alive and feel very vibrant. It also allows for you to play around with how you arrange each chair based on the various other colours and accessories in the room.
- Feature Walls
Feature walls are excellent for introducing style and colour into any room, but make for a particularly effective dining room colour combination. By limiting the splash of bold colour to one wall, you won’t have to worry about your colour choice being overbearing or drowning the rest of your design. There’s a ton of options, from paint colours and wallpaper to marble wall cladding, all of which will help turn your dining room colourful.
- Stone Slab Table
A dining room table offers more than just a surface on which to place food and utensils. With a natural stone slab table, you can enjoy a lot more than just a hard-wearing and durable tabletop. Stone, especially when incorporated as a single slab, makes for a breathtaking addition to any home and will serve as a central feature in your dining room. Whether you opt for granite, marble or any of the other types available, there’s a surprising range of colours, shades and patterns on offer. Practical, stylish and economically efficient, natural stone tables offer plenty of benefits for the colourful dining room.
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If you’re struggling to get the right dining room colour combination or just want some more ideas about how to work in colours to your home, give the Euro Marble team a call. We love helping our customers and the wider community to achieve the home design of their dreams. If you’d like assistance, contact us today.
