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7 Design Styles & How to Incorporate Them into Your Dining Room
The number of design styles and furniture brands out there can be overwhelming. Refreshing your dining room can breathe new life into the space and create a more inviting atmosphere for meals and gatherings. You can feel confident choosing a trusted brand like Signature Design by Ashley to do the job with its collection of styles to choose from. Whether you lean more toward modern, coastal, or glam style, you can find a trendy Ashley Furniture dining room set to match your taste in design.
To learn more about Signature Design by Ashley and the benefits of investing in a dining room set, all you have to do is read this quick guide. Inside, we highlight seven of our favorite dining room sets and break down popular design styles, so you can find your perfect fit from Liddiard Home Furnishings.
About Signature Design by Ashley
Signature Design by Ashley is a division of Ashley Furniture, one of the leading furniture retailers in the United States. We’re proud to offer Signature Design by Ashley in our lineup of brand offerings because of what the brand stands for and offers. Signature Design by Ashley provides budget-friendly and stylish options for furniture, mattresses, appliances, and flooring.
As a brand centered on home and family, Signature Design by Ashley naturally has a wide selection of dinner tables sets for memorable mealtimes around a beautiful setting. Ashley dining room sets range from $250 for a 3-piece set to just over $2,000 for a 10-piece set, offering a wide range of buying options for all budgets.
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Benefits of a Dining Room Set
There are numerous benefits to choosing a whole dining room set rather than buying each piece individually.
Pros
✅ A cohesive look: Buying a dinner table set takes the guesswork out of designing your dining room. A complete dining room set often includes matching furniture pieces, such as a dining table, and chairs, while larger collections even come with a buffet and even a hutch. This creates a coordinated and visually appealing look that can enhance the overall ambiance of your dining space.
✅ Minimize decision fatigue: If you are furnishing your whole house or renovating several rooms at once, sometimes you need one less decision to make. Choosing a dining room set simplifies the process and allows you to cross one more item off your to do list.
✅ Finance a dinner table set: When you invest in a whole dining room set, you can explore financing options that can help you make this big purchase easier with manageable monthly payement plans.
✅ Maximize on convenience and efficiency: When you buy a full dining room set, you can have all the furniture delivered at once, reducing the time and hassle associated with multiple deliveries. It allows you to quickly set up your dining area and start enjoying your new furniture.
Cons
✖ You can’t mix and match styles or materials: Sometimes, contrasting dining chairs and a table makes a strong statement. You have less freedom to mix and match because dining room sets typically prioritize a cohesive look. Some sets come with upholstered fabric dining chairs, which can serve to create a contrast.
7 Design Styles & How to Incorporate Them into Your Dining Room
Before you settle on a Signature Design by Ashley dining set, you need to know the design direction for your room. There are dozens of design styles to choose from, and our list of seven design styles showcases the most popular choices among today’s homeowners. When choosing a dining room style, consider the nearby rooms in your home and other places where you’ll be able to see your dining room, so that you can create a cohesive look.
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Farmhouse Dining Room
Farmhouse style is charming, cozy, and inviting. It emanates a sense of warmth and family, so it’s a natural choice for a dining room. Think light colors, natural fibers, and whitewashed wood. Ashley Furniture dining room sets with bench seating fit well in a farmhouse design because a bench has a communal, family style feel. Overall, Farmhouse style gives you room for creative expression, whether you want to lean more modern and simple or rustic and natural.
✔ We Like: Signature Design by Ashley® Stonehollow 6-Piece Gray/White Dining Set with Bench
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In terms of farmhouse Ashley Furniture dining room sets, we recommend this white Signature Design by Ashley dining set from the Stonehollow collection. The two-tone white and gray finish gives you a great neutral backdrop, and this farmhouse dining room set includes a that bench invites everyone to gather around. And the faux wood tabletop is quintessential farmhouse style. We love the simple lines of this piece, and the way upholstered seats warm up the look.
Industrial Dining Room
Industrial style is inspired by the lofty factories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it’s all about prioritizing functionality and practicality. Neutral color palettes and industrial materials define this style. Think brick, metal, worn wood, concrete, and glass. This is often considered more of a “masculine”, sometimes edgy style that feels very modern.
✔ We Like: Signature Design by Ashley® Odium 5-Piece Rustic Brown Counter Height Dining Table Set
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This bold number from the Odium collection is perfect for an industrial style dining room. The combination of metal and wood are undeniably industrial, and the intricate metal bases add to the overall effect. Both the chairs and table are adjustable, which draws on industrial’s focus on functionality. This is a great choice if you’re searching “Ashley Furniture small dining room sets,” but character and impact are also high on you list. This set would also be great for an eat-in kitchen or breakfast nook, with its small footprint and counter height style.
Featured Ashley Odium table set review: “This table fits my small area perfectly. My daughter loves adjusting the height on the stools as well. Love this!”
Modern Dining Room
Modern style is streamlined, sleek, and simple. Hallmarks of modern design include neutral colors, and natural materials. Modern overlaps quite a bit with industrial style, as it also prioritizes functionality. If you hate clutter, modern is all about keeping things simple and skipping past everything ornate and traditional. Modern style does not have to be cold or stark, though. You can include various textiles, rugs, and pops of color.
✔ We Like: Signature Design by Ashley® Skempton 5-Piece White/Light Brown Counter Height Dining Set
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If you’re searching for a modern dining room set, here’s a light and airy pick that’s a great option for brightening up dining spaces. Modern functionality is having extra storage in the table is very functional, with space to store up to eight wine selections, plus cookbooks, cookware, or other supplies. Like other modern Ashley Furniture dining room sets, this one is all about neutral colors and simple lines. We love the natural feel of the seat covers and the contrast between wood and white. This would also be a great choice for a modern farmhouse dining room or a small dining room.
Featured Skempton dining table review: “I love this table. It is so cute, warm, and inviting. It works perfectly in my smaller dining room and adds such a cozy feel to my home. The table itself is very sturdy and solid and was so easy to assemble. I am very pleased with the quality and look of the table. I love it!”
Traditional Dining Room
Traditional design is no stranger to dining rooms because of its elegant and formal feel. Traditional style may have taken a backseat to more casual styles over the last several years, but it’s still a classic choice for a dining room. Chandeliers, dark wood, and hutches to display china and crystal are staples for a traditional dining room. You can embrace existing architectural details like crown molding, wainscoting, and a tray ceiling. Traditional dining rooms have an established, timeless feel, and they can handle the drama of dark stains and moody wall colors.
✔ We Like: Signature Design by Ashley® Haddigan 7 Piece Dark Brown Dining Set
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If you are looking for a traditional Ashley Furniture dining set, we recommend this handsome number from the Haddigan collection. This set features a dark stain that is a timeless finish with chairs crafted with slatted backs and upholstered black seats. This 7-piece dining set is a great option if you have a larger dining space, and when you don’t need extra seating, you can remove the leaf for a more intimate dining experience with your close ones.
Featured Haddigan dining table review: “It's amazing, beautiful, sturdy. Easy to assemble the legs and you can easily flip the leaf in and out with only one person…Very happy with this purchase!”
Coastal Dining Room
Coastal style is a refined style with a nod to nautical design, but modern iterations have matured past kitschy lighthouses or anchors. Instead, imagine the calm, serene feeling of being by the sea and channel that into your eating space. Lightness, brightness, and natural tones like white, sand, light blue, and green are signatures of this style. You’ll see a lot of wood and whitewashed or distressed finishes. Soft, airy materials, like cotton, are also a big element of the design. If your dining room has a lot of natural light, or if you simply want to create an oasis-like dining room, coastal style might be for you.
✔ We Like: Signature Design by Ashley® Skempton 5-Piece White/Light Brown Dining Set
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This white 5-piece dining room set marries whitewashed wood, natural wood, and natural-feeling fabric upholstery together to make a beautiful coastal dining set. This set has an airy, casual feeling and would pair well with the classic coastal color palette. While this set comes with four chairs, two more can be added to make room for more guests during a cozy mealtime gathering.
Contemporary Dining Room
Contemporary style is always evolving to the pulse of what is on-trend. It is often sleek and uncluttered like modern style, but be sure not to confuse the two. Contemporary style blends classic, timeless elements with very current pieces and focuses on minimalism and simplicity. You’ll see a lot of contrasting black and white, but you can incorporate pops of color if you’d like.
✔ We Like: Signature Design by Ashley® Garvine 5-Piece Two-Tone Rectangular Table Set
