Ideas for an Orange Dining Room

Walled

• Start with the walls. Putting orange on all the walls is one option, but this can make the color overpowering. Use other techniques. Instead of covering all the walls in the dining room with orange, paint a few large squares of orange here and there, in different sizes. You could also paint only one accent wall orange and the rest white, or paint two walls orange and two walls a more muted color, such as cream, for balance.

Pictured

• Another way to incorporate orange on the walls is with a mural. Try it yourself if you’re artistically inclined, or hire a professional to paint any scene prominently showcasing orange. Because the mural will be in a dining room, think of something that features food: a table piled high with different kinds of cheeses, a pumpkin patch or baskets full of oranges, carrots and sweet potatoes. Put the mural on all walls or on only one accent wall.

Accented

• If you don’t want to or aren’t allowed to paint the dining room walls, bring in orange with the accents and furnishings in the space. Decorate with curtains, seat cushions, a tablecloth, place mats, napkins, plates, wall art and a rug that are orange or have orange in them. Look online and in furniture stores for an orange table and chairs. If you’re on a budget, just paint what you already have, the table, the chairs or both.

Tabled

• The table centerpiece is another creative way you can incorporate orange. The options are endless. Use a large bouquet of orange flowers: begonias, impatiens, zinnias, marigolds, daffodils or lilies. Use any plant, real or artificial, in a flower pot spray painted orange. Paint tree branches of different lengths orange, and stand them up in a tall vase with an orange ribbon tied around it. Fill a basket with a mix of plain pine cones and ones spray painted orange.