The dining room is the space where special occasions happen. It is the place to entertain with your family and friends. To make it special, inviting and cozy, you don’t have to invest in expensive decorations and designer pieces. Instead, you can DIY part of the decor and thus fill the air with character and uniqueness.
Let’s take a look at 18 DIY Dining Room Decorating Ideas: Inspiring Visuals to Spark Creativity.
1. Spring Dining Room
An easy way to decorate your dining room with items that cost no money and can give it a fresh look is seasonal flowers. You can gather them from your garden or go to the forest and cut them from a field.
In this farmhouse dining room decor, the spring lilac blooms are more than perfect, making the ambiance welcoming and elegant.
2. Fall Dining Room Decor
You can source an easy DIY dining room decor idea from here for the fall season. No need for any expensive store decorations, simply go to the forest or take a look at the trees and shrubs in your garden. Can you find a branch with leaves touched by autumn?
Cut it and place it in a beautiful vase or why not a farmhouse pitcher? This easy DIY centerpiece can be complemented by two candles, two pumpkins, etc.
3. Greenery In The Dining Room
Connect your home with nature by adding more greenery to your dining room decor. Pots with small plants on the windowsill, hanging baskets, and a centerpiece including branches or cut flowers are all great to welcome nature inside your home.
Natural decorations pair well with all interior styles, especially rustic and farmhouse where natural materials and textures are predominant.
4. Rattan Accents
Are rattan chandeliers too expensive for you? Well, you can skip buying and simply make your unique chandelier, why not a set of three?
You need three medium-sized rattan baskets, three black cord lengths and three bulbs. Cut a hole in the bottom of each basket to put through the cord. Pair with rattan flower pots and serving mats.
5. Farmhouse Galore
Trash of people can be someone’s treasure! This saying is valid in this dining room deco inspiration. The old buffet can accommodate old and unique porcelain tableware and set the farmhouse style in the room.
Decorate the top of the buffet with seasonal decorations or antique items that reflect your personal touch.
6. Accentuate With A Bold Color
The bold cobalt color is not everyone’s cup of tea but if you decide to turn it into the accent in your dining room, it will create a glamorous and unforgettable interior. And since we are speaking about DIY dining room decorating ideas, we suggest easy and affordable ways to include it in the decor.
Change the upholstery of an ottoman, an armchair or a sofa with a fabric in this color. Change the lampshades with metal cobalt lights. Now, let’s focus on the smaller accents. A piece of wall art should also hint at the color accent. That can be a painting, a framed print or a collection of vintage dishes with this color in their patterns.
7. Easy DIY Halloween Decor
If you want to add a pinch of spooky to your dining room fall decor, check out this DIY idea. Make paper bats and suspend them from the ceiling with a transparent cord.
Another place you can add this papercraft is the mantel.
8. Black And White Dining Room Decor
The classic black-and-white color combo is represented through the prism of the modern farmhouse style in this dining room. The furniture is old but refreshed with new coats of paint.
The accent wall anchors the black and white color combination with wallpaper.
9. Repurposed Galvanized Buckets
Small galvanized buckets can be repurposed into cute planters.
They can be displayed on an industrial farmhouse shelf unit on the wall in the dining room or directly on the table as part of a nature-inspired centerpiece.
10. Utilize The Mantel
The mantel is not only part of the fireplace. Nowadays, it is one of the most used places for themed decorations. In this modern farmhouse dining room, the mantel accommodates rustic pieces that enhance the interior style.
You can find wooden candle sticks at the thrift shop. Pair them with a pile of books supported by corbels or placed into a farmhouse container and vintage flower pots.
11. Scrubble With Your Names
Make a significant personal touch to your dining room decor with a lovely Scrabble set on the wall with your family members’ names.
To make these Scrabble pieces, cut slices at equal width from a wooden post. Paint them white and then write on each the desired letter. The easiest way to install the blocks on the wall is to use suitable glue.
12. A Scroll Inspired By The Bible
What is the first thing you see when taking a look at the image? Most people will notice the scroll- a gorgeous handmade wall decoration with a meaningful and inspiring quote from the Bible.
The scroll is a simple brown craft paper. You can get it in the size you want so that the final piece fits the wall space. You can use a Cricut for the inscription or print the saying and then transfer it to the brown paper. When your scroll is ready and hung on the wall, you can think of suitable ornaments that will enhance its vintage look and will draw the eye to it.
13. Decorate With Buffalo Plaid
Once winter strikes, it is time to make the home more welcoming, warm and cozy.
In the homely atmosphere of the farmhouse dining room, a runner, napkins and pillows can provide the winter mood, the festiveness of the holidays and the warmth of the rustic pattern.
14. DIY Cutlery Wall Hanging
Decorate the wall of your traditional rustic dining room with a handmade cutlery sign. The wall hanging consists of three signs picturing a fork, a knife and a spoon. The idea can be upgraded by adding an EAT sign.
This wall decoration can complement a wooden shelf unit with vintage pieces like lanterns with candles, metal letter signs, a vintage vase with flowers.
15. DIY Farmhouse Wooden Clock
This appealing farmhouse atmosphere is achieved by decorating with refurbished antique pieces. The distressed table is paired with retro metal chairs painted black to add contrast. The centerpiece is an old glass bottle repurposed into a vase for seasonal twigs and flower cuts.
The rustic console table repeats the style of the dining table and enhances the rustic flair with a DIY wooden box that holds glass bottles decorated with twine and twigs. The focal point is a handmade oversized clock. Its simple design features a large wooden circle with sprayed digits.
16. A Black Buffet
Add a bold piece to the dining room interior that can hold universal decor pieces. In this farmhouse setting, the masterpiece is a vintage buffet painted black to attract attention. The glass doors reveal what is inside the buffet- sets of glasses and dishes that are used on special occasions.
The black color of the buffet is complemented by smaller decor accents in the same color that make it feel like belonging to the room.
17. Utilize Space Cleverly
Small dining rooms have their charm although they can be a challenge to decorate. In this dining room decor idea, the rustic table is put right next to a wall with simple white shelves. The vintage items displayed on the shelves enhance the farmhouse style of the room and focus on a certain seasonal holiday.
An easy-to-make free-standing shelf unit holds heavier decorations and useful items. The color palette is neutral which ensures an airy feel for the room and a universal backdrop where smaller accents can stand out.
18. Modern Boho Dining Room
The eclectic boho style has made this dining room unique and inviting. A bold dove-gray wall unites the kitchen and the dining space and sets the perfect backdrop for a mix of accents with different textures and styles.
Natural decorations are an obligatory part of the boho style and in this idea, they are represented by a terra-cotta bowl with succulents in the center of the table and a potted vine on the floating wooden shelf next to the window.
