Functional dining rooms are considered casual, while formal dining rooms are much fancier in nature. Furniture and lighting choices, accessories, decor and table settings define the space and differ ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Whether you have a formal dining room or simply a multipurpose space with a dining table in it, you may ...

Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always loved the idea of a formal dining room – probably because my parents used to host glamorous dinner parties in theirs back in the 1980s and 1990s. It was the ...

In most homes we design, the dining room is a place for crisp table linens and adult conversation, and the kitchen is for everyday grub. Recently, though, we encountered a home with an interesting ...

Functional dining rooms are considered casual, while formal dining rooms are much fancier in nature. Furniture and lighting choices, accessories, decor and table settings define the space and differ ...