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Our Spring Dining Room

Hi everyone! I’m excited to be part of a spring home tour hosted by the talented Kathleen of Lindsay Hill Interiors where every day this week, five different bloggers have been showcasing a single room in their homes all dressed up for spring. If you’re coming over from Maybe Matilda who toured us around her beautiful spring kitchen yesterday, welcome! Today is all about dining rooms so come on in – I’d love to show you around!  (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here})

Dining room in neutrals with ladderback side chairs, upholstered wingback end chairs, rope chandelier, and a statement-making plate wall!
With the nonstop work on my One Room Challenge master bedroom makeover, I didn’t have time to create an elaborate spring tablescape but I usually keep things pretty simple anyway. My last tablescape was this one for our Easter dinner that I shared as part of my full spring home tour:

Dining room with simple Easter table decorations - floral centerpieces in vases lined with lemon slices and bunny ear napkins

Obviously the bunny ear napkins needed to go so I switched them out with these beautifully colored fringed linen napkins from Terrain:

Gorgeous fringed linen napkins for a spring tablescape

For our table centerpiece, I used a scalloped wood bowl (available {here} and {here}) filled with my favorite flowers – pink and white ranunculus that that I picked up at Trader Joe’s. Some inexpensive wax flowers fill in the gaps:

A beautifully simple spring tablescape with a centerpiece of ranunculus in a scalloped wood bowl and linen napkins with single ranunculus blooms tied with twine on each plate

Each placesetting has a single ranunculus stem tied with twine:
A simple placesetting for a spring tablescape - a single ranunculus tied with twine adorns each plate
The table runner is a DIY from several years ago – I found fabric in a black and neutral ticking stripe that I used as the base and then I added macrame fringe to the ends using embroidery floss – you can find the full macrame fringe table runner tutorial {here}.
Beautiful table runner that's a DIY with macrame fringe added to ends I was planning to add a few other spring touches to my space including tying some colorful spring ribbon on a few of the plates on my plate wall:

Dining room in neutrals with a statement-making plate wall - love!

and adding some color to the inside of my built-in china cabinet:
Dining room in neutrals with a colorful spring centerpiece of pink and white ranunculus
but my neutral-loving heart felt like the small pops of color I already had were just enough. Thank you all so much for coming along on my tour! If you’d like to see the rest of my spring home, you can check out my full spring tour {here} and if you want the deets on my dining room paint color and a full shopping guide for this space you can find it at the bottom of {this dining room post}.
Dining room in neutrals with a simple spring tablescape

Be sure to take a few minutes to stop by the rest of the dining rooms on the tour today! The next stop is A House and A Dog – I know you guys will love Allison’s farmhouse style dining room as much as I do. And if you’d like to catch up on the room tours from earlier in the week, here’s the whole gang along with the rooms that they shared:

Monday, April 11th – Front Porch

Emily – Eleven Gables | Trinity – c.1934 | Courtney – The Hamby Home | Wendy – Life on the Shady Grove | Becky – This is Happiness

Tuesday, April 12th – Entryway

Sarah – Life on Virginia Street | Summer – She Leaves a Little Sparkle | Kathleen – Lindsay Hill Interiors | Shannon – Fox Hollow Cottage | Randi – Randi Garrett Design

Wednesday, April 13th – Living Room

Erin – Sunnyside Up | Alma – Almafied | Oscar – Oscar Bravo Home | Ashley – House of Five | Megan – It’s a Grandville Life

Thursday, April 14st –  Kitchen

Brittany – Dutchess of York | Annie – Zevy Joy | Marg & Liz – Fancy Farm Girls | Kelley – Kelley Nan | Rachel – Maybe Matilda

Friday, April 15th – Dining Room

Kris – Driven By Decor | Allison – A House and A Dog | Tamara – Citrine Living | Kendra – Momtique | Haneen – Haneens Haven

 
Enjoy your weekend!
KJ Signature

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  4. [email protected] Interiors says

    April 15, 2016 at 8:14 am

    It’s all beautiful! Love the runner–I’ll have to check out the tutorial. Also, I’ve been trying to talk (my first!) client into a plate wall but she says it reminds her of her grandmother 🙁 I’ll have to show her your dining room that’s anything but old lady! Would you mind telling me more about the prints on either side of the cabinet?

    P.S. I had a chuckle over your ORC rattan headboard comment. Sadly I don’t think my husband would ever go for it either although I’ve been dying for a new bed for years and I’ve seen a a couple of rattan headboards/beds that I’m in love with. Sigh, husbands….

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    • Kris Jarrett says

      April 15, 2016 at 10:27 am

      Ha! That’s funny about the plate wall – and how exciting that you’re starting to take clients – congrats!! The prints on either side of the cabinet are from Arhaus – I got them years ago as floor models when they were being discontinued but then I saw that they started carrying them a year or so ago again. Not sure if they still have them or not. And thanks for feeling my pain on the rattan headboard – I haven’t given up my battle yet – ha!

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  5. Kathleen says

    April 15, 2016 at 8:22 am

    Kris, your dining room is a beauty no matter what the season! I love the gorgeous spring touches you added – perfection! ???? Thanks so much for joining us on the tour!

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  7. Lisa @ House Cleaning Atlanta says

    April 15, 2016 at 9:16 am

    I totally agree with that no matter what is the season. Your dining room looks just amazing! What I love most is that gorgeous spring ribbons that add pops of color to the room. I will use some of your details in my dining room. Thanks for sharing your ideas!

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  15. janet says

    May 3, 2016 at 11:45 am

    Hi you said you tweeked keystone gray paint but could you tell us what you tweeked about it so we can decide if I want the regular formula or your tweeked formula. Did you lighen it or use more or less drops of a color to change the way the color looks? what was it that you were trying to change about it? Thank you!!!!

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    • Kris Jarrett says

      May 5, 2016 at 8:22 am

      Hi Janet – unfortunately I honestly don’t remember what I tweaked about the color. I did the tweaking about ten years ago in a previous home and then just used the same formula when we moved to our current home. If you take my formula to Sherwin Williams, they would be able to tell you the color difference between it and the original formula. Sorry I’m of little help!

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  16. janet says

    May 5, 2016 at 11:23 am

    Hi yes I will take your fomula in to see difference. Thanks for the info love the keystone gray on my monitor. Can you tell me does it read green at all or more orangy or more gray? It seems to go with every color you change to for your dining table. Thanks for your help.

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    • Kris Jarrett says

      September 22, 2016 at 10:41 pm

      My plates are from Juliska – the Jardins du Monde collection. The plates are pretty pricey but Juliska has a warehouse sale twice a year where they are significantly discounted – that’s when I got mine!

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