New Contemporary Dining Room Home Design Photos in Atlanta

Many of us remember the dining room from our childhood as the separate, formal room that housed the most expensive pieces of furniture and was only used on a handful of special occasions and holidays. Running around the dining room chairs, and hiding under the dining room table. These formal rooms are still found in today’s homes but you can also find multi-purpose rooms, informal dining rooms and even outdoor dining rooms.

Find contemporary atlanta dining room design ideas here.

A contemporary take on seating, with a curvaceous silhouette. Upholstered in smooth, supple top-grain leather or durable, stain-resistant soft velvet fabric. Detailed with subtle button tufting.

• 21″w x 21.5″d x 36″h; 19″h seat

• Durable wood construction

• Padded sloped arms

• Solid wood legs with a chocolate stain

• Spot clean

• Simple assembly

• Imported

CONSTRUCTION

Top grain leather is light corrected oil-pull up leather in which the color is first dyed to the raw hides, once this occurs the hides go through a dry milling and buffing process and are then finally sprayed with pigment/finished to create a tonal effect.

CARE: Velvet

Dust and vacuum often.

CARE: Leather

Weekly: use a clean, soft, lint free cloth slightly dampened with distilled water, wipe area gently.

Streamlined design meets contemporary proportions in our versatile, expandable dining table.

• Solid hardwood/wood construction.

• Seats 6; when extended, seats 8.

• Expands on a smooth gliding system.

• 72″w x 38″d x 30″h; extends to 96″w.

• Assembly required.

• Spot clean.

• Imported.

CARE

Spot clean with a damp cloth. Hardware may loosen over time. Periodically check that all connections are tight.

Sometimes, a single long table really is the best option for a particular room. But that doesn’t mean you’re stuck with matching chairs.

“In one dining room we did,” says New York-based interior designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz . “the owner had a very long dining table. Having 14 chairs around it made the room too busy with legs. Our solution was to select four high back chairs that divide the table in two sections, and then to design a banquette that was repeated four times. The host and hostess sit in the middle chairs, so that they have access to all guests.”

If you’d like to re-create this look on a modest budget, you needn’t have benches and chairs custom made. Many furniture stores sell settees that could work quite nicely at a table; just make sure you select pieces that coordinate well with the upholstered chairs so the arrangement looks thought-out, not thrown-together.

If you have a screened-in porch or sunroom, consider using it for casual dining. To make this windowed room meal-ready, designer April Sheldon placed antique Chinese scholar benches on either side of a table made from an ironwood platform from India. The backless benches are surprisingly comfortable, she says — and they are easier to get in and out of than benches with high backs. And because there is no upholstery, spills are never a concern.

You could create a similar feeling in an indoor dining room, too, says Sheldon; just make sure the furniture is not only beautiful, but comfortable, as well. “People really like to linger at the table,” she says. “It’s all about feeling good, relaxing and enjoying good food.”

Close your eyes and picture a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving: Grandpa carving the turkey at one end of the long wooden table, Grandma at the other end, seated on one of 10 matching chairs. For a long time, that set-up was synonymous with “dining room.” But the American family has changed since Rockwell last put down his paintbrush — and American dining rooms are changing, too. “People are entertaining in a much more informal and creative way today,” says San Francisco-based designer April Sheldon. “They’re mixing different patterns in their dishes and putting branches and shells on their dining tables. The traditional mahogany table just isn’t working with that lifestyle.”

So, what is working in today’s dining rooms? Mixable, matchable furniture in unusual materials and unexpected finishes, making a style statement by breaking all the rules.

Like many busy people today, designer Raji Radhakrishnan and her family usually eat dinner in the kitchen. “I almost never use my dining room for sit-down meals,” says Radhakrishnan, owner of Raji RM Design  in Brambleton, Virginia. “We’re much more likely to use our dining room for high tea or cocktail parties, so I have set the space up for that. The table is fairly small, and has a sofa behind it, with two antique Bergeres with caned seats facing it. There are some small end tables and I bring in other small tables when I want to.”

While wooden tables are still the most readily available, tables in more unusual materials are increasingly popular — and can really set the tone for a dramatic dining space. For this dining room in Woodstock, New York, designer April Sheldon  set a round Calacatta Oro marble tabletop on a base of bleached, rift-cut white oak. The table is surrounded by clear, modern chairs by Philippe Starck — for a look that’s fresh and sexy.

“The key to this kind of look,” says Sheldon, “is to start with a great table and then find the chairs that play off the material or attitude of the table.” And once you’ve spent the time to select a table in an unusual material, be sure to show it off: “There are so many beautiful place mats available today,” Sheldon says. “And you can also place the dishes right down on the table. There’s no reason to cover a beautiful table with a tablecloth.”

Hand crafted from solid acacia wood with a beautiful warm, ruddy sheen the Kubus Dining Collection features fly through jointing and cracked beam legs producing a striking dining experience. The Kubus Storage Collection comprises delightful statement pieces with subtle Asian influence and styling. This collection offers practical modern day storage solutions. As with all hand crafted, solid timber furniture, sizes can vary slightly, and some movement should be allowed for; this should not be seen as a fault.

This style of the dining room feels more luxury!

German gallery Helmrinderknecht has just opened Chairs&Fireworks, a solo show of Catalan designer Martí Guixé, exhibiting three new chairs from his ongoing ‘statement chairs” cycle, alongside a small collection of pieces about the “neglected subject of fireworks.”

Pictured above is Respect Cheap Furniture:

The monobloc plastic chair is a phenomenon, which has already attracted and inspired many designers and artists and in fact contains many criteria of good design: it is cheap, democratic, robust, reasonable in technical production and convenient. But the classical monobloc chair has a very bad reputation. Following his work “Stop Discrimination of Cheap Furniture” from 2004, Guixé moves a step ahead in the defense of the monobloc chairs and postulates “Respect Cheap Furniture”. The “Respect cheap furniture” chair will be availabe in a limited editon of 50.

Centaurus:

“Centaurus”, the third chair can be seen as a real designer chair. As designer chairs are often associated with the reputation and the person of the designer, Guixé’s “Centaurus” chair brings chair and designer as close together as possible: here the designer becomes an integral physical part of the chair; subject and object become one and build a “designer chair.” The “Centaurus” chair is available in a limited edition of 10.

One more after the jump.

Wood dining table that looks fantastic in dining room. You picture a dining table fashioned from gleaming wood with sturdy legs and an expansive surface and fold out leaves if necessary to add more guests to your setting. You envision a large hutch against the wall, filled with your best china, crystal, silver and linens to set exactly the right mood for your meal. Your dining chairs are both comfortable and solid, giving your guests the ability to relax a little longer in their seats as you talk the night away over dessert.Cool and unique perfectly describes the hand crafted Bowery X-leg dining table. Bold Indonesian oak construction base and smooth, expansive table-top offer seating for six with chairs, more with benches. Perfect for a dining room with limited space. Features rich dark wood frame with thick sturdy legs – the Bowery is always stable, never wobbly. Available in wenge wood finish. Indonesian oak construction.

The large Hudson square table provides a perfect blend of modern style and simple living. The Hudson features thick table top, with routed edge and matching thick legs in a wenge finish. Table measures an impressive 59 in. L x 59 in. W x 30 in. H, comfortably seating eight people – a perfect table for an intimate dinner party. Handcrafted, solid Malaysian oak construction. Simple assembly. Imported.

Whether updating, renovating or moving to a new home having the right dining setting is essential to modern living. Traditional timber dining settings are heavy in appearance and can overwhelm a confined space. King Furniture Inc designers have several alternatives including extendable dining tables and glass dining tables offering solutions to your dining requirements.  

cheung king Furniture’s glass extension tables are available in a number of colours, including white, brown and grey glass to co-ordinate with your existing scheme. The latest technology has been utilised to fuse the paint to the glass creating a permanent bond whilst being environmentally friendly. Beyond Furniture’s glass extension tables comfortably seats up to eight people in its extended mode, measuring 2.1 metres in length, when the guests have gone home it easily sits six measuring 1.6 metres in its closed form. This unique, funky design is exclusive to Beyond Furniture. 

Cheung king Furniture’s other designer glass table has a frameless 15mm tempered glass top, with the choice of up to eight sizes in clear or frosted glass. The clean, elegant glass dining table is perfect for small areas to enhance the feeling of spaciousness. The unique combination of anodized aluminium and European oak veneer legs in a range of popular timber colours, gives the glass table a modern edge, seamlessly blending into your existing furniture. Alternatively the option for polyurethane legs makes the glass table ideal for ultra modern homes or apartments, complementing the latest in kitchen design trends.

The latest in furniture design technology ensures quality and safety assuring it is perfect for any family. Tempered glass is seven times stronger than regular glass. The glass is laser cut to create a safety edge, using Ultra Violet technology and German super glue for the stainless steel joints. Cheung king Furniture’s glass tables are stylish and durable.