The dining room is a room where guests tend to spend a lot of time. When having company over for dinner, the dining room needs to convey a sense of elegance without being overdone. Columns are a great way to add definition to a while adding a touch of elegance and class. Decorative columns can be permanent or temporary, so using them is feasible whether the residence is owned or rented.
Instructions
1. Make a grand entrance. Use columns only at entry points.
2. Stick with the basics. Decorative columns used to define the dining room should match the ceiling molding and baseboards in the dining area. Due to this fact, decorative columns are almost always white. The paint finish on the columns should be a gloss or semi-gloss. Don't decorate the columns for everyday use, the columns themselves are enough decoration on their own.
3. Keep columns out of the room. Stay on the perimeter of the dining room only. If the decorative columns invade the space of the dining room, the definition of the room becomes less concrete. When the columns come into the dining room, the shape of the room changes and looks uneven.
4. Arrange the columns in twos. Columns look best when used simply. Keep their use symmetrical, one on each side of a doorway. Using more columns than two looks cluttered and overdone. Less than two columns makes the room appear unbalanced.
5. Make it seem permanent. Flimsy columns do not look elegant. The placement of columns can lend a look of permanence to them. Keep columns that aren't permanent close to permanent fixtures, such as walls.
6. Line it up. Alignment is the most important part of decorating with columns. Measure to make sure the columns are perfectly aligned with each other. Measure spacing between columns to ensure they match up. Spacing is another important measurement that has to match, both spacing between the columns themselves and between columns and walls or other objects. When the columns aren't perfectly placed, they look tacky and clumsy.
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