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Top Decorating Trends and Ideas for Your New Home - Dining Room
New Homes Raleigh NC Formal Dining Rooms Top Trends, Styles, and Ideas for Your New Home If you're adding decorative touches to at least one room in your new home, consider the place where you meet to eat: the formal dining room. 
A formal dining room often sets the tone for the rest of the home, as the place your family, friends and special guests gather for a while to relax while they eat.
It is also nearly always located very prominently near the front entrance of your new home, where your special touches will be noticed right away. 
 

 
Archway entrances to the formal dining room emphasize sweeping lines and open space, setting the dining room apart as a separate entertaining area.
 
Multiple color treatments and an unusual darker accent for the crown moulding and baseboard give the dining area a luxurious feel.
 
Picture frame wainscoating adds more depth and formal appeal, when it uses a deeper tone in the same color range. 
 
 
 
 

 
The arch theme works especially well when it is carried from the front entrance to the formal dining room.
Chair rail adds another layer of contrast that blends the color scheme.
The paint tones work well with the site finished hardwood flooring.
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