These are my latest ideas…
The constants throughout all four designs are the ivory curtains (from Crate & Barrel, now discontinued), the lighting fixture (from west elm), the dining table and chairs (vintage, from Jubilee Furniture), and the wood trim and floors in our home. Also, I may edge the curtains with a coordinating solid to pick up on the other elements in each design.
Number One
This is the only one of the four designs that includes wallpaper. In fact, it’s one of the wallpapers I was originally considering, way back in January of last year. That’s a good sign, right? The berries in the wallpaper are raspberry colored, so I’d be able to play off of that a little. The chairs would be upholstered in some pink fabric with a subtle striped texture that I bought on ebay. The ceiling and the wall area above the picture rail would be Benjamin Moore’s “Wild Aster”, which is the same color that’s in the living room.
Number Two
This one has the ritzy stripe fabric that some of you liked and some of you didn’t. That would be on the chairs, and Moda’s Cake Rock Beach (in Leaf Honeycomb) would line back of the hutch. The walls (and probably the ceiling too) would be a simple creamy white.
Number Three
If I go with number three, I’d probably repaint the kitchen. There would be too much yellow in the house otherwise! That’s not a deterrent though – I don’t mind painting at all. The OD Zig Zag Fabric would be used to cover the chair seats, and a patterned paper tablecloth from IKEA would go in the hutch.
Number Four
Both fabrics here are from Anna Maria Horner’s upcoming Drawing Room collection. The top one would be for the chairs and the bottom fabric would cover the back of the hutch. The main walls (up to the picture rail) would probably be creamy white, and the upper portion of the walls and the ceiling would be “Wild Aster” to tie in to the living room.
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'F' for Fabric, 'W' for Wallpaper, Dining Room • 101 Comments • April 1, 2008
I really like #1 and #2. After going back and forth, I vote for #1. It’s just so…lovely.
I really love the Anna Maria Horner fabric, but I vote for #1.
I have to vote for #2. That ritzy stripe fabric speaks to me!
I like #2.
Ack! The fabric in number 3 is unavailable!
If anyone knows where I can get some, please let me know. I’d like to have it, even if I don’t use it in the dining room.
i’m voting 4. yes. 4
I really like number three because I just love that mustardy yellow right now. But I love your kitchen the way it is, so I’m voting for number two.
ONE!!!!!!
#1
#2 for sure!
The birds in #1 are so whimsical and I was drawn to it, but is that too much pink? Stupid question? I thought that I was struggling with the black in #2 but #1 also has black so that’s not it. Maybe those zig zags are just too much with the lines of the dinning set. #4 is fun but I feel like it would compete with your beloved Anthropologie chair in the living room and we can’t have that!
I think I like #3 because it reminds me of your website! YES, that’s it!
I’m voting #1 b/c the birds rock so hard. Or #4.
Actually, #2 is my most favorite, but green and blue might not be the most appetizing for a dining room. And my grandmother always said never to do a room yellow because you’ll get tired of it. I have no idea if it’s true or not, but it’s ingrained in me!
I like number 4 the best!
#1 feels like it would be too pink (and I love pink!)… I’m not sure how well that would work in a dining room.
#2 has the ritzy stripe. :/
#3 is too matchy-matchy, everything is in the warm golden tone.
#4 has just the right amount of color, contrast, and clarity. And it still has a bit of pink. :)
I would like to preface this by saying that I generally don’t like pink but I am very drawn to #1. Nothing in the other three seems to pull me in.
Other comments seem to think it’s too much pink which you might be able to remedy by changing your choice of paint color a bit. Perhaps to something like the background of the wallpaper.
But either way I’m pro-#1 for sure.
No. 1 seems most like you, and I think you won’t be satisfied until you wallpaper that dining room–which was your original plan a year ago. :)
I presume you already did a wallpaper mock up?
My only concern is the wallpaper taking away from your Amy Ruppel. Would you move the artwork out to another room?
I’d go for #3!
Actually, no mockups yet! :)
Yeah, the Ruppel painting would have to go in another room.
#3 although I’d hate to see you repaint your kitchen because I’m a HUGE fan of the way it is now!
I’m not a fan of wallpaper so #1 is out. I’m not a fan of the fabric in #2 and the fabrics in #4 compete too much.
I adore the wallpaper in #1, so that gets my vote, along with the fact I really like the pink. Otherwise, I really like #4, the #2 and #3 aren’t doing it for me today…. but it is early!
4… or 1, but I like 4 better!
I normally don’t like wallpaper, but I love the one you found! #1 is my favorite, followed by #3–it seems warm and cozy, yet decidedly funky.
Love 1,3 and 4. I think you’re heading in the right direction. It’s more focused now.
I really like 4. Just to throw some more wallpapers into the mix that are really pretty:
http://www.wallcollection.com/gallery/item/14
http://www.wallcollection.com/gallery/item/13
http://www.bobbyberkhome.com/show_product/10031/?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_term=10031
They’re all lovely! My order is 2, 3, 4 and 1.
I vote for #1, although all of 3 schemes are nicely done!
Oops, I mean all 4 schemes are nicely done.
My favourites are #1 and #4. I find that ziggy green fabric very unsoothing because of all the jagged lines. I love the colour combination of the pink with the grey bird wallpaper. I’m not sure how big an area I’d personally want of such wallpaper, but on a “mood board” it sure looks great.
I’m for #1 all the way. I adore that wallpaper, and also the paint colour. Plus, you already have the chair fabric. Number 3 is my LEAST favourite. It’s too much yellow with very little other colour.
you are so absurdly talented. it seems somewhat unfair that you get all of those talents wrapped up in a lovely self… but thank you for sharing it all.
(and i am no help with decisions – i like them all)
I like them all, but I think I’m kind of in love with #1.
i love them all, but i mostly love #3. #4 is my second choice.
1 or 3 is my vote
I LOVE #1!
I think I have to defer my opinion until I see the mock-ups, if you do them.
Because I know the yellow fabric will be very hard to find, I guess 1 or 4, but neither really thrills me (sorry).
I really like bits and pieces of each, but I love 4…if it were me, I might reverse the fabrics, put the smaller print on the chair and the larger in the hutch.
I think the birds in 1 will get old quick, the zig zag fabric in 2 doesn’t really scream dining room to me…3 is my second favorite.
I think I like 4 the best, or maybe 3. The pink fabric in 1 doesn’t do the wallpaper justice and I don’t care for the zig zag fabric in 2 for a dining room.
My personal preferance is #4, but that’s for my style. I think #1 is best suited for your home. However, with that being said have you ever heard that birds in the house are bad luck? My Nana (Grandma in Aussie English) always said that, so if a calendar had just 1 bird in it she would have to throw it out.
Have you considered the other color version of the clacket lane? I like elements of both 1 and 2, and if you might be able to combine the quirky birds with that nifty stripe if you went with the other color of the clacket lane. You could always add a table runner with the bright green, and then change it out with the seasons.
Three is too mustard, and I fear it will look dated in under a year and make your food appear unappetizing.
Four doesn’t seem “dining room” to me. I think it would be great in a reading room, though I’d never talk my housemate into it.
I like #3 the best.
I like #1, but I’d do the chairs in red rather than pink …
Choice 4 is absolutely the best. That fabric you’re looking for in 3 reminds me a lot of this duvet from Pottery Barn:
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p10986/index.cfm?pkey=cbabdvtptn
I don’t know if that helps any(?) Just remember, my vote is for 4.
I have to go with number 2. I think the Cake Rock beach fabric swayed me.
No. 4 is my favorite, and red in the dining room is spot on. But, I also really like No. 1.
I truly love number 4! The red will be a nice splash of color & not overwhelming, I think, since it is only going to cover the chairs & back of the hutch. I think it will fit nicely with your home without being too much like anything else in your home. I like #1 2nd best.
My vote is #4!
1 is my second choice.
I like all of these as combos. It’s hard to picture without the mock-ups, and other details like other rooms you can see from it, and pets, and whatever rug you put in. If we’re going by hutch fabric, the green one and the gold one don’t seem like good choices because they show too much white in themselves. If almost everything in your hutch is white, the shapes won’t stand out well against the white areas of the background. The #4 is, for all its boldness, essentially a solid in that capacity. It is pretty in its own right, but won’t compete with the white items. I think the first one is nicest overall, but I like all the color ways actually, hutch fabric and all, if you found another way to use them in the dining room instead.
#2 – absolutely! The gorgeous sage-y greens will go so beautifully with the rest of the house and be noticeably different from everything else. LOVE!
numero uno
#4 isn’t getting much love, but I love it!It isn’t as mod and geo-focused as the others, but I love the Indian-vibe it has. Both bsy patterns, but they’d be in small amounts and far enough from each other not to compete.
I also really like #1, those birds are so sweet, and the fabric looks very lush – I love textured fabric, anything that makes me want to touch it is great! :D
I love number 1.
I love love love number four! It is beautiful! I was initially concerned, like others, about the clash with Anthropologie chair, but I think it might tie the two rooms together.
Whatever you choose, I am sure will be ‘lovely.’