Dining spaces in homes don’t have to be cramped against a wall! Like these dream dining areas, they can be spacious and bright with the right pieces of furniture situated in the right spots of the home.
These gorgeous homes in Singapore show you how to jazz up a small dining area so that it looks inviting and perfect for entertaining guests during the festive season.
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Keep the space interesting by using bright and bold colours to spruce up the dining area. Keep the amount of furniture to a minimum, as having too many pieces might make your space appear cluttered.
The best way to keep a dining area bright, is to keep it close to a set of windows that let in tons of natural light. If you’ve got bay windows, you could create a cosy nook for dining and small meals!
The homeowners of this spacious-looking apartment made the right choice of picking benches rather than heavy chairs with backs. Long benches help give the illusion of a longer, larger space.
Benches could also be cost saving as they sit more people for a fraction of the cost chairs.
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Use your dining table as your home’s centrepiece. This homeowner placed his dining table in the centre of his open-concept space, framing it with an interesting light fixture.
Sure, this home is mostly black, but the shiny surface of the chairs and table helps keep it from looking dull. Precedence is also given to the large, rainbow-coloured array of books that highlights the dining space.
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Combining your kitchen and dining space together can give the larger area a café-like look and feel. This couple hosts weekend brunches in their home for large group of friends, so this communal dining and cooking area is perfect for them.
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This dining room will definitely make an impression on guests with the bright green wallpaper and coral-coloured chairs. The explosion of colour works on this space as the designers stuck to two bold, complementing colours, and softened it with beige chairs, a soft beige rug and white accents.
If you’re lucky enough to have a large balcony, you could make that an extension of your dining area. Al-fresco dining spaces are great for entertaining guests, especially during the festive season.
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Bring a little bit of the café experience back home with a customised bar height table that’s not only trendy but takes up a lot less floor space than a conventional dining table. See more bar-top ideas for small kitchens here!
If you entertain often, it’ll be a good idea to extend the kitchen island’s counter top to create a casual dining table for guests to hang around at while the food is being prepared. It’ll make cooking much more sociable and enjoyable for you!
To double the living room as a comfortable dining area, opt for lower lounge seats and a higher-than-usual coffee table.
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Customise a hybrid kitchen island cum dining table to get extra table top space when you’re cooking bigger meals or if you’re serious about entertaining!
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Love the cosy Japanese-style seating where the table is sunken? This can be easily recreated in your home by building a platform within the room and leaving a gap for the table.
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This dining table is able to swivel in and be tucked completely out of sight – simply genius and saves a ton of space when the dining is all done! See more clever space-saving home ideas here.
A small table for two is all you need if you live alone and eat out often. This narrow built-in table also zones the open kitchen from the rest of the living area neatly.
Got an awkward nook in the kitchen? Align the space with a wall-mounted counter that serves as a table for two people to dine side by side.
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