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Transitional Dining Room Ideas

Whether you realize it or not, transitional style is one the most popular interior design styles right now. This style is a blend of modern and traditional styles; it takes the class and order of traditional styles while drawing the style into the modern day by simplifying it and making it more relatable/approachable. Because of that, this style is ideal for dining rooms and other spaces where you host friends and family. To gather ideas for your dining room, here are our favorite transitional dining room ideas along with tips, tricks, and inspiration photos.

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Modern Accent Colors

In general, traditional styles use warm creams and other warm colors to establish a welcoming tone. Modern styles however can be more dramatic with stark whites and blacks to create more contrast. This dining room features the best of both worlds with the warm wood tones and whites of traditional styles paired with modern blacks and modern minimalist furniture. Allow this room to serve as an example of how these styles can be combined to create one new aesthetic.

Traditional Mid Century

Transitional style doesn't just combine traditional and modern styles; it combines traditional with modern variations like mid century modern, modern farmhouse, or modern boho. In this room, the furniture and lines are clearly more mid century while the color palette and simple layout fit a traditional scheme. Combining a traditional color scheme with modern or mid century modern furniture is a great way to showcase your one of a kind style.

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New Potential

One of the biggest elements in any dining room is the dining room rug. The rug establishes the table as a key focal point, incorporates color or pattern into the room, and balances with the size of the room. In this room, the rug clearly takes the overarching aesthetic in a more modern direction, but if you wanted, you could use a more traditional oriental rug beneath the table to transform the entire room's tone.

Making Matches

Transitional homes feel neat, tidy, and intentionally designed. This is especially true in transitional spaces that have an open concept layout or floor plan. In these scenarios, be sure that adjacent spaces complement one another with matching elements like similar wood tones, recurring accent colors, and similar furniture.

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Transitional Rugs

Depending on your preferences, transitional rugs can lean highly traditional or more modern. This rug balances the two aesthetics by featuring a traditional design in a subdued modern color palette. There is no overstating the power of a dining room rug in setting the proper tone and defining the room's grand style!

Artistic Liberties

Traditional dining rooms would never use a rug like this. The Canevas Geo Felted Area Rug from Gan Rugs is crafted to be a unique shape and pattern perfectly suited for more modern dining rooms. When you move from purely traditional style to transitional, you have more artistic freedom with including modern accents.

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Guidance

When you're designing a dining room, it can be tricky to decide where to begin. One way to start the process is by finding inspiration in the room's architecture and detailing. This room, which features brick walls all the way around, suits a more modern style, and so the furniture and rugs reflect that style. However, the wood tones and the traditional chairs draw that style back from being fully contemporary. Allow your room's architecture and unique features inspire the rest of the room's design.

Calming Blues

Blue is a popular color in transitional dining rooms. This color comes in so many different shades, works well with both warm and cool colors, and can be displayed in any pattern. If you're looking for an transitional accent color, then blue is a great option.

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A Healthy Balance

There are many ways to design a transitional dining room, but one way is to combine very modern furniture with very traditional accents (or vice versa). In this room, all the main furniture reads as very modern, but the lamps on the side table are very traditional with their ornate detailing. Balance your furniture and accents to convey a more modern or traditional style, or use equal modern and traditional pieces to create a perfect balance.

Traditional Class

Even though all the dining room table is clearly modern, the chairs are a perfect example of a transitional style. These chairs feature the minimal detailing of transitional style, but they also carry an air of class with their warm color and beautiful upholstery. As you can see, there are many ways to blend modern and transitional elements to convey your style.

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A Focus on Flooring

More classic, traditional styles often have carpet or hardwood flooring. However, transitional dining rooms can use different flooring to create more of a stylistic impact. While this room uses warm tiles, you could similarly have a brick floor, different tiles, or a unique pattern in your floor to create a style moment.

Kitchen Dining

Even if your dining space is shared with the kitchen, there's no reason you can't have an elevated transitional dining table there! A small area rug will help set your dining space apart from the rest of the kitchen and set the tone for a cozy, transitional dining area.

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Transitional Farmhouse

Transitional style is already a combination of multiple styles, but even then, this style plays well with others. This transitional farmhouse dining room has the classic, homey elements of a transitional room while also featuring the eclectic farmhouse collection of chairs. Allow this room to serve as inspiration of how you can combine styles to convey your unique aesthetic in your transitional dining room.

Wonderful Woods

Both modern and traditional styles use wood, although traditional woods are typically deeper and richer. Even so, using wood as a recurring material and accent throughout your dining room is a great way to blend modern and traditional aesthetics. Plus, using different wood tones and furniture helps you convey the exact tone you want!

Every Detail Matters

Every part of the room impacts the grand design and tone. Tables, chairs, rugs, side tables/cabinets, and every single accent piece should work together to create your ideal aesthetic and set the proper tone. Be sure that when you take a step back and view the room as a whole, every piece works towards the room's grand design.


Transitional dining rooms are beautiful spaces that combine modern and traditional elements to create a new aesthetic. With the tips, tricks, and transitional dining room ideas shown above, you can now begin designing your ideal space and convey your unique blend of styles.

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