Avoiding white after Labor Day, “age-appropriate” dressing, less is more — so-called style rules were meant to broken. So when the design team at the Salt Lake City-based interior design firm Studio ...

Functional dining rooms are considered casual, while formal dining rooms are much fancier in nature. Furniture and lighting choices, accessories, decor and table settings define the space and ...

Tie up or replace the chandelier. Nothing screams “former dining room” more than that hanging fixture. Remove formal wallpaper and repaint the room in an updated neutral.

Kathy Renzetti is trying to carve out space in her 1962 split-level home in Vienna for a formal dining room. She recently added a sunroom, so she no longer needs the living room portion of her 14 ...