Interior Designer Dining Rooms
Interior Designer Dining Rooms are here to stay. It is true in today’s lifestyle and Economy the Formal Dining Room has become less popular. When you are designing a new home, or remodeling it and because the space is limited the Dining Room is the one to go.
We go out a lot, share restaurants with friends and do take out. We have kitchens with eating spaces and breakfast rooms too, so why spend space and time in a formal Dining room if while we don’t need it. While after covid a lot more people are working from home, most without home offices or home libraries, so it is natural to take over the Dining Room.
The misinterpretation comes form the word room. Room is a space, not necessarily of its own nor surrounded by 4 walls. So the function is there, Dining. As a result plan to have hierarchy based seating spaces when designing your new home. Similarly plan to have the dining function, supported by seating but as a result located anywhere.
History in the Past.
When I was a kid we had two homes we eat regularly at, our parents’s and our grandparents’s. The Grandpa’s home had a magnificent four wall surrounded formal dining room, Could sit 12 to 16 with the extensions. Three walls had windows and the 4th was the entrance with a pair of glass French door. So it was a showcase, one we hardly used, maybe for Christmas and New Years. Nice to look at mainly. They also had a breakfast room with a round table for 12 and within its own round room. While most houses today aren’t as big, the bigger one’s all had a Formal Dining Space. Likwise all the English manors did too.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms.
At Villa on the Beach a 20,000 square foot home we created a space for the Dining Room, to look elegant and as formal as the Villa Itself., above all clean and simple.
Showing ten chairs, two arm chairs and 8 pull up chairs. Because it is rotated from the Glass Facade at 45˚ this makes it less formal. The space likewise allows you to rotate the table, parallel to or perpendicular to the facade, always centered with the wood Regency Chandelier.
Also notice on the archway, where a wood slider blocks half of the breakfast room. You can open it in full and make the two tables sit 20, or close the slider enough to allow serving from the kitchen, but blocking more of the breakfast room. Then notice on the other arch there is a Loggia, with its dining table too, and a wet bar to the right while you don’t see it, they all work together (following). It is funny but last time I visited the owner had the table full of stacks of papers, though he has his own home office-library.
The table is a “Racetrack” shape with extensions (not installed) and carved wood legs,almost a rectangle but softer. Table and Chandelier by Panache Designs. The racetrack is basically a rectangle with the 4 corners curved, in sets of two each making a half circe. Softer looking than the rectangle.
The Wet Bar with sitting stools and the outdoor or Loggia table.
See the dining table reflected on the mirror certainly a good way to add a view for those looking in the opposite direction. The Fabric on the stools matches the one on the back of the Dining room chairs consequently they integrate. The wet Bar marble top is bowed to add to the casualness of the Beach location, because it is softer like the Ocean water.
Outdoor covered seating.
So in addition to the 21 seats or so in the interior, the Loggia table seats 8, for a total of almost 30. Anyone to lunch? Rather a lot but often used.
A round table with a marble inserted top. Vanishing edge pool and Ocean beyond. The 8 chairs are arm chairs. I should have done 4 arm and 4 pull to allow the 8th one to fit better due to the arms taking additional space.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms at Hacienda on the Beach in Los Cabos, MX.
At this waterfront Hacienda style Villa in Los Cabos, we selected a Rectangular dining table. The racetrack shape table would not allow for the 10 chairs shown, two arm chairs and 8 pull up chairs. We first remodeled the villa and did the Interiors 7 years earlier, to come back a second time to redo the room. Same chairs with different upholstery, red on the wall and sheers.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms.
At the Cigar Tobacco growing Jungle we did the Interior of this Villa first of all to reflect its environment. We rounded the main wall of the dining room, and created a mural by Carlo Marchiori from the Napa Valley, California. The theme an Italian Mythical garden while the round table with a glass top allows the Thassos snow white marble with Giallo Siena keys to show.
When you round the walls of a space and then comes the table, this one has to be round too. Table base by Brueton.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms
At Waterfront townhouse in the Mayan Riviera we remodeled and similarly allowed for curving the wall too. Here we didn’t do a mural but we did do a glass top round table again rather than wood.
So far we have shown tables of three shapes: Racetrack, rectangular and round. Not that I am obsessed with Round tables but they are the easiest to fit, other then in very narrow room.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms
At the Puerto Aventuras Yacht Club Penthouse we added a mirror to the wall so all those seating at the table would enjoy the magnificent view of the Mayan Riviera. The table again round with glass top has an Asian Rattan base and Chairs.
And the Glass structure and top breakfast room or Bar.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms
And another Round table with Glass top. Chairs fabric by Manuel Canovas, at Cowtan & Tout.
At this waterfront small condo, we mirrored the wall all around its arches to reflect the water views. Lazy Susan in limestone on top.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms
At the Bay View Grand tower in Cancun we selected chairs from Oscar de la Renta home at Century Furniture.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms
At the Santa Fe tower in Mexico City, the client had an Italian table with an interesting base mechanism that extended. Unfortunately the rectangular Glass top was broken. For the project this was good as we replaced it with a bowed glass top and extension, then created a bowed booth to match.
At Torre del Campestre in Monterrey, Mexico, we were asked to do a loft style flat for the two young daughters going to college. So the last thing on my mind was a Formal Dining Room. I designed an open Kitchen but glazed to contain the smell and service staff, while the dining table would be a part of the studio.
Interior Designer Dining Rooms.
At the Polanco, CDMX apartment we did the classic glass top round table again. Notice we haven repeated the Pedestal anywhere. Accentuated with a circular ceiling cove with light and a contemporary chandelier. An interesting concept here is the relationship to the Kitchen. The client mentioned he wanted to enjoy a cup of coffee from the kitchen while having a look at the boulevard across the dining room. So we used electronic glass to close vies when service in house, and open when view is desired.
Glass has the hability to be transparent or opaque. If you have a cook working in the kitchen and don’t want to see in you turn it opaque. If you are by yourself you open it up.
San Francisco Dining Rooms.
At Paris in San Francisco, a classic Parisian style penthpuse in Sacramento street, Pacific Heights or Presidio, we interpreted the clients style with a classic, dining table. All wood and round, however when the wood extendion is used it becomes a racetrack.
Mind you the extensions in most cases are not due regularly won’t only ocassionally, as a result it is almost always round. The chairs to were a style interpretation. Both by Century Furniture.
Another San Francisco dining room, at a Buena Vista Park Penthouse, was to be Art Deco influenced. In fact here we selected an Antique, a rectangular atble with extension. Here too we relocated the dining area to a corner, adding a of the Living space, rather than have it take the typical one of two bays. As a result we added a corner booth, and a corner wet bar.
Silicon Valley, California Dining room and games table.
This very large house had no formal ding room but it did have a round space for a table by the kitchen.
We chose black for the cast stone pedestal and then a 80″ round glass table top. Interesting is the games table in the family room opposite the wet bar where the eat regularly perhaps a sandwich only.
Marin County, California dining rooms and areas. Belvedere Tiburon.
In a Belvedere Tiburon one bedroom Condominium apartment we decide to exclude a dining table for the reson that as a second home they go out to often. Consequently the now open kitchen Peninsula is the Dining table. Seems like it is vary spacious because of the mirrored backsplash.
At another Belvewdere Tiburon one bedroom apartment while now on Main Street, the proportion of the space allowed for a dining area, because it is deeper.
A banquette is used instead of chairs on one side of the table. as a result it looks less formal. The Round table by Maxalto, Italy, while it has a Callacatta gold marble top it also has a lazy Susan.
Marin County, California dining rooms and areas. Corte Madera and Larkspur.
In a cCorte Madera home, while previously a Dairy, the Architecture definitely did not have a dining room before we remodeled and did the Interiors. While it is very Modern, because the owner is an Architect himself, the look remaind clean.
Larkspur, Marin County California Dining room.
Because it is open and exposed to the main living area we used a wallpaper on the wall.
This Larkspur, Marin County, California, dining room is still in progress and we are using a snap shot rather then professional photography yet to be taken. The table is elliptical, while it looks round from some angles. As a result seating is more spacious.
LINKS.
INTERNAL.
https://jerryjacobsdesign.com/tag/hacienda-on-the-beach/
Best round tables Blog by Jerry JACOBS DESIGN.
EXTERNAL
- Carlo Marchiori. CATOGA
- Manuel Canovas Fabric. Cowtan & Tout
- Century Furniture, Oscar de la Renta chairs
