With the holidays over and the new year right around the corner, it is a good time to step back and reconsider what kind of resolutions you want to make regarding furniture in the upcoming year. Purchasing new furniture can be daunting but with this handy guide, Homelement is here to help. Focusing on one room at a time, Homelement has a series of helpful guides for redoing each room in your house. In part one, we will focus on dining rooms. After the holidays are a good time to re-evaluate your dining space and make sure you are utilizing it to the maximum potential. There are many different ways to do this.
What kind of space do you want your dining area to be? Are you a large family with lots of kids and need space to fit them all around the table? Do you rarely have guests over for dinner and the kitchen seems like a foreign country to you? Do you like to have host small intimate dinners with close friends? Each of these choices will require different types of dining rooms.
If you’re constantly having friends and family over for dinner, or just have a large family yourself, a table that has leaves is a great idea. Leaves allow the table to extend and tables can have up to three leaves, making the size adjustable no matter how many people you have. These tables can be modern, formal, rustic, or any other style which makes them perfect for any design preference. A table with a leaf is a nice addition to a kitchen because on regular nights you can use it as a standard sized table and not take up too much room, however on when you’re entertaining, you can expand it to make it bigger. Some tables have removable leaves that will require storage space when not in use. For those of us with limited space, some tables have butterfly leaves. These are leaves that can be stored within the table and are great if you need to conserve space. Some dining tables that have leaf extensions are the Coaster Broderick Modern Dining Set, the Hillsdale Hemstead Dining Collection, the Homelegance Keller Dining Collection, the Homelegance Kirtland Dining Collection, the Homelegance Abramo Dining Collection and the Homelegance Alita Dining Collection.
For some people, the kitchen is like foreign country. They don’t like to cook and hosting a dinner party sounds like a nightmare. If you’re king of take out and only use the kitchen for your morning cup of coffee, a dinette set might be something more appropriate for you. Dinette sets are small dining sets that usually seat 2-4 people and take up less room than a traditional dining set. They are great if you are not doing a lot of hosting or if you have limited space to work with but still want to keep your room feeling like a kitchen, a dinette set might be just what you are looking for. Some popular dinette sets we have are the Coaster Dinettes 5 Piece Bar Stool Set in brown, the Homelegance Scottsdale Three Piece Dinette Set, the Coaster 150112 5 Piece Dinette Set, the Homelegance Piper 5 Piece Round Dinette Set, the Homelegance Saddleback Five Piece Dinette Set, and the Homelegance Jonas Five Piece Dinette Set.
You don’t need a large family or a bunch of friends to have a dinner party. You just need good food and somewhere to serve it. If you don’t have a lot of space to work with but still want to keep your kitchen functioning, a round or standard sized table would be a good suggestion. Some of these even come with leaves to expand when you have company. These tables are not too casual or formal and come in many different styles to fit any type of room. These average tables look anything but average. Some popular ones are the Coaster Mix and Match Dining Set in espresso, the Homelegance Euro Casual Round Dining Table Set in rustic oak, the Coaster Libby Dining Set in cappuccino, the Coaster Rebecca Dining Set in oak and antique white, the Klaussner Carturra Dining Set and the Hillsdale Charleston Round Dining Set.