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[KentuckyWoman]

Love the color scheme.  Very pretty. The tables and accessories are a bit too busy or fussy for my personal taste.  However,  I will take a home with a formal dining room over an open concept house any day.  I despise walking in the front or back door and see the entire first floor or living and dining spaces as one huge room.  Give me some rooms with walls that flow easily from one space to another. 

[Regal Bee]

This space is lovely.....very refined and elegant.

[BirkiLady]

Lovely dining room. I still enjoy having family and friends for dinner in my formal dining room. Using my chrystal, china and sterling is how I was brought up to serve Sunday meals. Although I no longer do it that frequently, it such a gracious way to entertain. 

In this particular dining room, I would remove the brass barometer and replace the chandelier. Everything else works very well for serving wonderful meals. 

[CelticCrafter]

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@kitcat51 wrote:

Not my style but it's pretty except I'd throw those always crooked dust collecting dated candle shades out...there are lots of different bulbs available now for candle chandeliers from primitive to formal.

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The first thing my eyes went to!  

I have this thing about stuff being crooked.  A picture hanging on the wall could be an eighth of an inch tilted, I will notice it and have to fix it.

[Sooner]

It's a beautiful room.  We have a dining room and use it all the time.  We serve burgers and bbq there, roast chicken, brought in sub sandwiches, holiday meals, steaks, roasts, soups and anything else we are eating.

Just use it if you have one.  People are fine eating there is. you are!  If you chairs are uncomfortable, hit garage sales until. you find some you love.  Dining rooms are wonderful and the place to have many many good times. 

[Venezia]

I love the colors in the room and the furniture, the fresh flowers and the china display units.  I'd certanly use the room, even if only for holiday family dinners.  Other than that I'd put a comfortable armchair in there and read.  I find the colors very calming.

[jannabelle1]

Elegant and ultra-formal.....way too formal for my lifestyle! I still enjoy  looking though!

[Drythe]

I have a formal dining room, really, really enjoy and use it often.

This one is beautiful, lovely to look at, but a bit too formal for my taste.  Totally reminds me of my MIL’s DR.  We inherited many of her things including DH’s Grand Father’s Grand Father clock - in FR, not DR. 

The table lamp looks off to me, and the glass shelving doesn’t seem right.

Thanks for sharing @stevieb.

[Mominohio]

It's a very pretty room, and my change would be the wall color. Nothing wrong at all with it, but just not my dream color. I especially love the wood work that you just don't find in homes today, and the built in as well. 

I will say that whenever the topic of this 'old way' of formal style and dining comes up here and other places I post, I'm amazed at the people who aren't comfortable with such a setting. 

I can see it not being one's style, and I can see one being in a place where they don't want the upkeep of such fancy things that they may use infrequently or not at all. And I can even see this not being the style of dining you would choose to do on any particular occasion. But I always wanted to make sure in raising my son, that he would be 'comfortable' in any setting, regardless how formal or simple, and everything in between. 

I find it sad that formality is seen as uncomfortable, a thing of the past, not worth the effort and not liked anymore. It certainly isn't something I want to deal with every single meal, but I do find it very reminiscent of days gone by, and a pleasant and enjoyable experience for all the senses, to enjoy fine things like this on occasion. 

[Snicks1]

I love the room, we are much too casual to ever use it, but it's lovely.