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Even though mid century modern style is over 70 years old, this style is still prominent in today's design landscape. While MCM can be used in any room of the home, it can be especially impactful in the dining room where you gather with friends and family. In order to create the best mid century modern dining room for your room's layout and use, consider these mid century modern dining room ideas along with tips, tricks, and guidelines on how to execute this iconic style.
Mid century modern dining rooms can lean into different aspects of the style. In this case, the dining room is clearly more vintage with the tiled walls, floor, and even the table top. Details like these aren't as common in today's interior design landscape, so when they're used in a MCM dining room, you can expect a more vintage aesthetic to emerge.
Warm woods are prominent in mid century modern homes. In dining rooms, you can use wood for the tables and chairs along with consoles, book shelves, floating shelves, and even artwork. By using wood in multiple areas of the room, you can cement the room's overarching style and create a cohesive scheme throughout the entire space.
Brown and beige tones are prominent in mid century modern dining rooms. These warm tones can be introduced into your dining room through various areas, such as the wall color, chairs, flooring, rugs, and accents. The use of different shades and materials will help diversify the room's grand design and create a visually interesting room.
Open concept and floor plans are common in modern homes. If your dining room is a part of a larger space or connects to another area, it is important to tie the dining space to that adjacent space through similar accents, materials, and/or colors. This room uses the coral tones of the rug to tie back to a nearby coffee table and accent chair, but you can design your space according to its functionality and specific aesthetic.
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While mid century modern style is fairly minimalist in its design philosophy, this aesthetic still has a deep appreciation for artistic details and patterns, Unconventional rugs like the one shown here are aptly suited for mid century modern dining rooms, since they serve as a point of visual interest and feature an unconventional design.
Mid century modern style plays with lines and different shapes in the room's architecture, furniture, and key accents. The rug displayed here is a great fit for a mid century modern dining room since it features shapes and lines that create a unique design. Whether you choose this rug or another, you will find rugs with geometric shapes or patterns work well in mid century modern dining rooms.
Bookcases are wonderful accents for any dining room, but they can be especially effective in mid century modern dining rooms. These shelves can act as a wall between rooms and highlight classic MCM accents. Plus, the color of the bookshelves can complement other dining room accents like the table, light, or rug.
Mid century modern style is known for some highly iconic furniture, especially chairs. Your dining room chairs can feature classic MCM shapes, materials, and finishes to highlight your personal aesthetic. Plus, the chairs can be used with different style tables, so you can easily combine aesthetics to create your ideal look.
No matter what style your dining room features, it is important to create visual balance with the scale of all the furniture, artwork, rugs, and the size of the room itself. In general, the rug should extend one to two feet past the backs of the chairs when they're fully pushed in. Choosing the proper rug size will help you strike the proper balance and ensure that your rug's design isn't too overwhelming or too minimal for the room.
Even though mid century modern style is fairly streamlined, there is some space for artistic expression and eclectic design. By using different dining chairs at your table, you can highlight different shapes, materials, and finishes to create a more eclectic design. When you feature eclectic details like this, it can be beneficial to have a simple rug under the table so that it does not compete with these unusual details.
Whether your home is open concept or not, you should have unified designs present in all areas of the home. In the case of this space, the mid century modern dining room furniture features neutral colors and clean-cut lines, which complements the room's architecture and the living room furniture. When it comes time to design your dining room, look at adjacent spaces to see how the designs complement one another.
Mid century modern style is both focused and artistic. This small mid century modern dining room features many bold elements, such as the dark table and chairs, long curtains, detailed rug, and of course all the wall art. Don't be afraid to lean into the style's artistic side to create a bold, glamorous dining room.
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Vintage mid century modern style often uses earth tones like brown, clay, and earthy reds as the base of the style. However, you can alter the color palette to suit your room's tone and aesthetic. The use of bold vintage colors like the blues and yellows helps reinforce the mid century modern style of the space even if the colors aren't as popular with the original aesthetic.
Bold, contrasting colors are frequently used to create dynamic contemporary dining rooms. In the case of this space, the dark black dining chairs stand out against the white walls and cabinetry. While you could similarly choose a rug that contrasts the blacks or whites of the room, you can also follow this room's example and use a rug to introduce a new color or draw attention to a secondary accent elsewhere in the room.
This dining room shows just how versatile MCM style truly is. While the chairs are clearly inspired by the style, the rest of the room incorporates more contemporary and traditional elements in the table, side tables, accents, and rug respectively. Allow this room to serve as inspiration of how you can blend MCM furniture with other aesthetics to highlight your favorite interior design styles.
Mid century modern style can be highlighted in the dining room in so many different ways. Through iconic MCM chairs and side bars, lighting fixtures, artwork, and rugs, you can lean into the style as much as you choose. With the MCM dining room ideas shown and explained above, you now have the knowledge and inspiration to create your own version of this iconic, timeless style.
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