I’m not sure if you have noticed but in the last few years, a dining room revolution has been going on. Dining spaces are no longer the formal, unused rooms of the past.
We’re seeing these areas become beautiful statements and functional hubs in homes more than ever, and I am in love with the look!
If you need help choosing a modern design for your dining space, today’s post will for sure inspire you.
1. Starburst Brown Dining Room
Modern, super stylish, and just a little bit opulent. This dining room has so much personality! It’s absolutely ideal for homes and people who are not afraid to make a real statement.
The few decorations, like that amazing starburst chandelier and the colorful wall art, speak volumes in pure elegance and gorgeousness.
2. A Sidebar
You can install a service sidebar in your dining area for total efficiency and extra storage.
This modern one has a wine cooler, drawers for silverware or dinnerware, and a super trendy chalkboard wall, all without taking over the space.
3. Warm Rustic
You can create that cottage kitchen charm by going fully rustic. A raw wooden table, concrete floors, and a wood fireplace! A stack of firewood brings in the ultimate country vibe.
Keep it modern with some clean walls, contemporary chairs, and minimalist floating shelves.
4. Mid-Century Modern Minimalist
Here is another way to update a mid-century style dining room, just clean it out. Take away the carpets, the wood-textured walls, and any leather furnishings.
You can keep the chairs, the chandelier, and the table, and then add in a show-stopping rug and a minimalist framed picture.
5. A Map Wall
I love this modern dining room design for a classy, efficient, and urbane home. You can enliven a black modern wall with your own city map!
It’s such an interesting piece of art right on your wall.
6. Kitchen Island Extension
Quite a few small modern houses are forgoing a formal dining room. This breakfast station is attached right to the kitchen island, saving up even more space.
The formal elegance is still there with the glossy wood table and Scandinavian seats.
7. Wood and Grey
This room just exudes beauty in functionality. I’m looking at a minimalist dark grey pendant light, mirrored walls, a natural wood table and serving bar, and dark grey rattan sculptural chairs.
8. The Greenhouse
For all the environment lovers out there, this greenhouse-inspired dining room is just perfect.
It has exposed brick walls for a rustic touch, skylights for natural lighting, and bare wood floors with scrubbed tables. You can bring in as many indoor plants as you can handle!
9. Silver and Viridian
No one will miss or ever forget this dazzling style and pomp. This is a dining room that’s meant for entertainment, glamorous company, and just great times.
The walls and furniture are elegantly subdued, while the silver touches and bubble drop lights add in all the glitter.
10. Quirky Minimalist
Minimalism can sometimes feel a little staid, stiff, and sparse. This dining room successfully added fun, fascinating, and quirky details to the space, all while keeping the facades of minimalism.
We’re talking bare hardwood floors, clean walls, and light neutral tones. The result is a clean, modern, and totally unique dining room.
11. White and Creative Pieces
You can relieve your basic white dining room with a few creative pieces.
The large green wall feature gives a great pop of colour, the golden stool is so interesting, and the dining table is unique with its recycled sewing machine feet. It’s modern with a touch of nostalgic feeling.
12. Glitz and Gold
You can tame the unapologetically posh and glitzy look with some classy details and minimalism. The soft sheen of gold here is classy rather than crass.
And instead of intricate curves, minimalist lines are used to diffuse all that glitz.
13. Statement Pendant Lights
Statement pendant lights can really light up a room in more ways than one. These black and bold bubble pendants totally fill the space between the table and the ceiling.
It also draws your eye to the fabulous dining table and chair set.
14. Dark Elegance
You can experience some Zen in your dining room with this dark elegant design. It has bare hardwood floors, a marble-topped table, clean dark walls, and comfortable chairs.
Just add a touch of bright colour to heighten the drama.
15. Table for Two
Small space living often means incorporating dining rooms and kitchens into one. But space or no space, it’s still nice to have a place that’s dedicated to enjoying your meals.
All you really need is a sensibly-sized table, a couple of bucket seats, and a small rug to define the space.
16. Classy Contemporary
Tamed down in its colors and shapes, this modern dining room’s interiors show strong Moroccan influences. I see it in the white figurine accents, the patterned plush chairs, and the cool marble table.
But the overall interiors, with abstract wall features, clean walls, and sleek lighting, are classy contemporary.
17. Modern Barn house
You can turn a stuffy barn house into a fashionable living space with clean walls and some dramatic accents.
This dining room retains the charm of polished hardwood floors, the vintage round wire chandelier, and the high ceilings. And that recycled door table brings in the perfect pastoral ambiance.
18. Contemporary Sophistication
You should never compromise the beauty and elegance of your home. This sophisticated dining room is just teeming with classy elegance and style.
The hushed tones, comfortable plush chairs, a well-designed chandelier, and a mirror wall accent all speak of posh interiors.
19. Skylight Splendour
I feel like modern dining room ideas and designs are always light, airy, and uncluttered. You can refresh a stuffy and cramped dining room by adding more light.
A skylight will totally open the space, add natural lighting, and be a great room feature.
20. Quixotic Blues
Cool, dreamy, and romantic. This pensive blue dining room really stirs a convivial mood, creative inspirations, and pleasant dining.
The wide table invites gatherings, and the sensibly designed chairs look so light and comfortable.
21. Subdued Opulence
Still showing a lot of Mid-Century modern styling, this dining room gets a fresh update from its cleaned-up walls and ceiling and more contemporary furniture.
It retains the posh velvet seat cushions, but the legs are made more angular and modern.
22. A Little Bit of Everything
Bright, fun, and so interesting! This is like a collection of your favorite things all in one room. The mismatched chairs, the colorful rug, and the beach painting.
This dining room really personifies a free-spirit, fun-loving, and quirky person.
23. City Blue Chic
I think city dwellers will certainly love this streamlined and space-saving dining room idea. One side is set against a window seat to save on space.
The chic modern Scandinavian style is just perfect for apartments that have open floor plans.
24. Modern Plush
This modern home features an open floor plan that incorporates the kitchen and dining room into one space. Open floor plans definitely save space, but you have to be careful not to crowd and clutter the room.
I think a modern minimalist interior design is recommended to help minimize clutter, with clean lines, neutral colors, and top-quality furnishings.
25. Dark and Sleek
Powerful, modish, sleek, and marvelous. This is for people who are richly gracious, fabulously stylish, and who command a powerful charm.
A grand fireplace, an arresting chandelier, and a well-crafted dining set. No knickknacks and no fluff.
26. Nook Diner
Small doesn’t have to be drab. You could copy the cool and urbane style of this city apartment dining space. The wall bench is super comfortable and is a great space saver.
The area can even double as a desk, while the window sill can be used to handle stuff when the table is busy.
27. Cottage by the Sea
There are no gloomy days when your dining room is this sunny and bright. Wicker chairs, a round dining table, a seascape picture, and white everywhere.
This is your vacation dining room, ready to enjoy every day of the year.
28. A Glass Table
A clear glass dining table is just perfect for a modern and sophisticated dining room. It’s so clean, light, and chic.
Sleek white chairs, white walls, and candle pendant lights complete the classy interiors.
29. Metallic Mesh Chairs
Take out your old and bulky dining chairs and replace them with these sleek and trendy metallic mesh chairs.
The streamlined design of these chairs really complements a modern dining room.
30. Rustic Industrial
This is so sharp, edgy, and strikingly stylish. The vintage charm of the large Roman clock and the ancient stone wall is balanced with sleek metal furniture and geometric pendant lights.
Just add a bunch of blooms to soften the edges a bit.
31. Farmhouse Shabby Chic
I find this so charmingly old-fashioned and delightfully unique.
It’s a collection of quaint and graceful items, like the square eight-seater table, shabby chic turquoise chairs, an Arabic rug, a vintage chandelier, and modish paintings on the wall. The highlight of this room for me is the upcycled plank table.
32. Space Efficient
Smaller dining rooms can still look super spacious. The trick is to use smaller and more minimalist furniture. Less fuss and clutter is key.
The bench seating, a small light fixture, and wide windows all help the room look more expansive.
33. Embossed Metal Ceiling
Clean lines, functionality, and less adornment are the top trends for modern dining room ideas and designs. But a little bit of glitz can always make things more interesting.
An embossed metal ceiling adds a lot of shine without clashing with the room’s subdued modern theme.
34. Banquette Seating
This is very modern and so space-saving. The classy, plush, and comfortable banquette is so welcoming despite the limited space.
The table is kept shiny yet modest, while the vintage stools and drop light give the space a cool and urbane vibe.
35. Light and White
White kitchens and dining rooms are just timelessly charming. You can spice up your white dining room by adding patterns and some grey accents.
Soft grey walls, a grey patterned rug, and a few potted plants add color and texture without straying too far from the white color scheme.
36. Dramatic Touches
When the room is small, you have to go big on style and dramatic effects. Darker shades are always more dramatic. You can add glass, mirrors, and shiny details to offset the dark tone.
The bubble pendant lights, a modern mirror feature, and silver add-ons complete this eye-catching and dramatic dining room.
37. Sycamore Live Edge Dining Table
Get an edgy and raw rustic ambiance right at the table. The table and bench wood slab is impeccably polished, but the edges are left to showcase its beautiful and unique curves.
It’s a perfect contrast to the overall refined elegance of the interiors.
38. Modern Scandinavian
I see a fusion of style and functionality here. Scandinavian-style modern dining room ideas and designs are stylish, sensible, and minimal on the décor.
The designs favor light tones, natural elements, and functional pieces.
39. Eye-catching Colours
Modern dining room ideas and designs tend to favor light and neutral colors, minimal furnishings, and plain adornments.
This modern dining room maintains that chic modern vibe and injects some eye-catching colors to its sideboard serving bar. The result is a modern and exciting room.
40. Luxurious Minimalist
Creative and subdued styling can really convey luxury in a minimalist design.
Plush seats, a marble wall feature, and an attention-grabbing modern chandelier give the room its deluxe facets, while the bare floors, clean walls, and dark table maintain its minimalist vibe.
41. Elegant Farmhouse
You can capture the idyllic charm of the countryside with this farmhouse-inspired dining room. It has open glass walls to let you enjoy natural lighting and great views.
I love the wood slab table with metal legs for a dose of rustic sophistication. And those pink plush chairs add comfortable, warm, and gracious elegance.
42. Cozy Corner
You really don’t need an entire room for your dining set. This dining area is so snug in its corner. The placement is ideal to improve foot traffic.
The minimalist styling keeps the room looking bigger than it actually is. And that brick faux window wall is a great conversational piece.
43. Concrete Floors
Bare floors are so in! You can modernize a dining room by removing tired and faded carpeting or rugs. Just leave the floor clean and bare.
Complement the look with clean walls, sensible furniture, and minimal décor.
44. Lakehouse Charm
Bring in the innocent charm of the idyllic lakeshore right into your home and dining room. It’s so warm, inviting, and bright. Natural elements, cheerful colors, and lots of natural lighting.
This is a room everyone in the house would absolutely love spending time in.
45. Waxed Wood Classic
Waxed wood dining rooms are a total classic. They have been around since our parents built their homes, and the style is still going strong.
To give a modern touch to this cherished style, you can add modern cushioned chairs, clear the clutter, and install current and awe-inspiring pendant lights.
46. Glass Walls
You can clean out and update a tired and stuffy dining room by removing walls! Install glass window walls that will let the light in and totally expand your room.
Complement your modern sleek walls with minimalist interiors. It is time to enjoy your garden views!
47. Elegant Minimalist
There is beauty in simplicity. Sparsely decorated, each item here carries a punch in style and excellent design.
This dining room banks on space, efficiency, and natural elements like natural lighting, bare concrete floors, clean walls, and scrubbed wood.
48. The Round Table
Compared to the traditional rectangular dining tables, I think round tables are more relaxed and convivial. This one is perfect for informal and casual dining rooms or breakfast nooks.
You can throw in a round sisal rug, outdoorsy images, and colorful indoor plants to lighten up the mood.
49. Mid-Century Modern
This is an updated mid-century modern with a lot of cool colors. The signature chairs and chandelier of the era were kept, but the walls and ceilings are cleared, and an all-glass table is added.
Natural elements like indoor plants, a rough wood counter, and a centerpiece are added for some interesting details.
50. Cottage Chic
You can upgrade your basic cottage dining room with a lot of sisal. Large comfy sisal chairs, classic white walls, and an upcycled door table with rough wood legs.
The sisal-wrapped bubble lights are as interesting as they are charming.
51. Casual Chic
A cheerful, elegant, and beautiful dining room. It’s not too intimidatingly proper and not too relaxed. This dining room can host formal dinners, family meals, parties, and gatherings.
It has a great color combination of yellows, greys, and black.
52. Breakfast Booth
A small breakfast nook that would be fit for a country manor.
It has wide windows to accommodate wonderful views, comfortable banquette seating, reed window shades for a pastoral touch, and a vintage candle chandelier for that unmistakable opulent vibe.
53. Mix of Sand Colours
This is another modern Scandinavian designed dining room. The thin picture frames on the wall, the round pendant lights, and the neutral rug are all modern, subdued, and graceful.
A touch of charming quaintness is injected with Danish bucket chairs in a lovely mix of different sand hues.
54. Modern Shaker
Sparse and functional. You can keep the good old charm of Shaker interiors with spindled Windsor chairs, a mid-century modern table, a Shaker rug, and period portraits.
Just add clean white walls and modern pendant lights for that contemporary touch.
55. Golden Magnificence
This dining room is fierce, bold, and so colorful. It just bursts with bright colors, rich furnishings, and strong character. Gold-footed table and chairs!
The attention-grabbing pen chandelier is magnificently designed. To lighten the impact, you could opt for more subdued carpet tones and wall features.
56. Mismatched Chairs
This dining room has a lot of character! An ordinary kitchen and dining combo is turned into something fairy-tale whimsical. It’s quirky and charming. Unconventional and colorful.
I love the shabby chic table and mismatched chairs.
57. Moody Navies
Dramatic dark colors can also work for dining rooms. The somber navy walls and neutral floors and ceilings set the stage for the warm mahogany tones of the table and chairs.
A bunch of bright foliage, flowers, or a bowl of fruits can easily brighten up the room.
58. Cape Cod Charm
Keep it classy and timeless with one of the top modern dining room ideas and designs, the charming Cape Cod style.
The round wooden table, white cushioned chairs, bare hardwood flooring, and white walls bring in that comforting bucolic vibe.
59. Play up the Lights
Ample lighting always perks up a room. You can install multiple strategic lighting fixtures to a windowless room, but take care not to overwhelm with bright lights.
This room’s lighting includes diffused lights from the chandelier, accent wall lamps, and ceiling spotlights.
60. Square Table
A square dining table is always a surprising element in dining rooms. When everyone is fixated on a rectangular table, get off the customary path and be unique!
It is also an easy and sensible way of getting people to dine closer to each other.
61. Statement Rugs
Give your own dining room your personality stamp by updating the rug. The rug is highly visible and very individual.
This is a great example of a modern minimalist room that focuses all its color and style on its statement rug.
62. Rustic Benches
Farmhouse benches are making their way into modern, elegant dining rooms. Accompanied by a matching wood slab table, the glossy rustic benches bring a serious dose of rustic charm to the space.
The candelabra lighting and diamond-patterned rug really warm up the room.
63. Warm Neutrals
Neutral colors can also be warm, hypnotic, energizing, and inviting. The features of this dining room are mostly warm wood tones, strategic lighting, and bright greens.
That is a lot of Zen in a modern room.
64. Crisp and White
So sparkling, refreshing, and clean. This classic glass, white, and metal kitchen and dining room combo is made even sleeker and more modern by the glass divider, low-back chrome and white chairs, and chrome kitchen walls.
