Choosing furniture for your dining room may be the most important part of settling into a new home. Families connect over food, conversations flow across islands, and friendships flourish around tables. Mountain View Furniture has a staggering diversity of beautiful, carefully crafted wood pieces for a dining room. But which ones do you need? This guide will lead you to discover the pieces that will best transform your dining room into the heart of your home.
Tables and Chairs
For a functional room, choosing the right dining room table and chairs is key. To begin with, consider how you and your family hope to use the dining room. Do you have a small room with intimate conversations of two to four people sitting at your table? Will you be hosting dinner parties, with laughter and visiting around the table for several hours? Do you serve family or cafeteria style? These are all helpful questions to think about before choosing a table and chairs.
If you love to host, you may want to consider a rectangular dining room table. Rectangular tables often have expandable leaves, allowing you to seat more people. A rectangular table and dining room chairs combine into a perfect dining room set for all those who love to host large families and large dinner parties. Upholstered dining room chairs will make it difficult to leave. Some dining room sets, like the 1869 Dining Collection, include benches, allowing for a variety of seating. Rectangular tables fit best into large rooms.
For smaller dining spaces…
If your dining room space is limited, but you still hope to maximize the space for guests or family members, consider an oval table. Oval tables often seat just as many as a comparable rectangular table, but they fit into smaller spaces with more ease. Their curved nature also turns guests’ faces to each other, creating a naturally, cozy setting for connection. The Baytown Dining Collection provides an elegant context for meals.
For many customers, however, a small, simple table fits their needs. The most popular table comes from the Oneida Room Setting, a dining room set with a circular table, a single pedestal, and an upholstered dining room chair. A small dining room table fits with ease into almost any space. It can create an inviting space for a small group of people to visit in a larger room. It can become the daily eating spot of a smaller dining room space.
Be sure to browse through the hundreds of dining room sets to see which one would be best for your home. Although the chairs are often chosen secondarily, it may be helpful to consider if you want easy-to-clean chairs, swivel stools, or even bar stools.
Storage
Serving people and preparing food can easily make the dining room and kitchen a place of disorganized chaos. While not every kitchen or dining room will need storage furniture, it may be helpful to consider all the unique dining room furniture that Mountain View Furniture has to offer.
Many homes today have built-in cupboards or pantries, but in their stead hutches, pantries, and islands provide excellent secondary storage. Pantries do well in storing dry food like baking items or snacks. Hutches provide quite a bit of space, stretching from floor to ceiling at times for out-of-sight storage of dishes and bowls. Islands can bring in much-needed counter space along with storage of all types of kitchen items, from appliances to dry goods. For pantries, islands, and hutches, Mountain View’s customizable options come in handy for those who wish to maximize small corners.
You can also explore a multitude of storage cabinets, ranging from buffets to jelly cupboards. Traditionally, many of these had specific uses, but today, you can use them for the purpose that best suits your needs. Homeowners with larger dining rooms and extensive dish collections may want to consider the buffet, made to store lots of dishware sets within easy access for hosting. But for those who wish to display special dishes, curio cabinets provide a safe, but accessible place to show off their heirlooms.
Consider a coffee bar or wine server
Of course, hosting people isn’t just about food and dishes. Beverages play an important role in hosting as well. Mountain View Furniture carries the more traditional wine servers in every size and shape but has also expanded to coffee bars. These coffee bars bring the perfect space to place an espresso machine with all the syrups and mugs to go with it. Beverage centers are perfect for secondary or basement dining areas. The Rowville Beverage Center features a small sink, space for a mini fridge and microwave, as well as perfect storage for mugs and wine bottles.
Specialty Dining Furniture
Just as many food traditions require specialized groceries, they also require specialized furniture. Here at Mountain View Furniture, the options offered are all heirloom pieces customizable to your family’s specific needs and wishes. They carry hard-to-find pieces, like the pie safe and bread box or jelly cupboard.
Pie safes come with a host of Pennsylvania Dutch traditions. They reflect a history of weekly-baked pies stored in a dry, ventilated cupboard, with legs to keep the bugs and other pests away. You may choose to put pies or other pantry items into your pie safe, but whatever you put into it, you’ll be bringing family traditions and history into your dining room.
Other storage cabinets display different ways of bringing beauty to the home. The quilt cabinet provides a place to display heirloom quilts. While the noble families of Europe displayed portraits of ancestors in their dining halls, a quilt might be a better symbol for your family’s ability to turn a simple household item into a work of art. The pottery cabinet provides a place for special hand-crafted urns. With its curved tops, the Bentley storage cabinet brings elegance to any display.
Create the Dining Space of Your Dreams
In purchasing dining room furniture, consider what kind of home you want to build. Whatever vision you have for your dining room, Mountain View Furniture is there to make your ideas come alive.