These 17 Dining Tables Fit The Whole Family

Take inspiration from these family-style dining tables perfect for hosting relatives and friends for a special meal.

CALM, COOL AND CONTEMPORARY

This modern Houston home’s neutral dining room features a suspended chandelier, a skirted chair, and more. (Tour the home)

TOUCH OF TURQUOISE

Turquoise cut velvet enlivens the dining room’s 19th-century French host chairs, while a Christian Lacroix fabric for Designers Guild has a similar effect on the antique Dutch side chairs. The custom table is from The Willows, and the antique-iron panels are from Relics Architectural Home & Garden. (Tour the home)

SIMPLY MEDIEVAL

Holly Hunt leather covers side chairs from Empiric in Los Angeles, which, along with 19th-century throne chairs from Debenham Antiques in Suffolk, England, surround an RH table in the dining room. The rug from Driscoll Robbins Fine Carpets adds organic texture. Cathy Conner at Studio C hand-laid the gold-leaf ceiling details. Superior Manufacturing fabricated the new cabinets. (Tour the home)

PARISIAN POSH

The Fine Art Lamps chandelier from Lighting Inc. takes center stage in the dining room, with stylish storage in the form of a custom glass-front hutch. The antique dining table from Joyce Horn Antiques and chairs from The Original Round Top Antiques Fair– upholstered in linen from High Fashion Home–lend simplicity and elegance. Robert Allen fabric makes up the draperies by D&D Drapery Company. The plaster walls, which have a wax finish, are colored in Dovetail by Sherwin-Williams. (Tour the home)

ART-FULL

The dining area offers the perfect canvas for the owners’ vast collection of engravings from a book by Raymond Lafage. Interior designer Sandra Seward conceived the idea of the massive steel table, fabricated by Oest Metalworks. Existing host chairs were purchased in Europe and are covered in a striped Pierre Frey fabric. (Tour the home)

LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE

Designed to host large family gatherings, the dining area includes upholstered chairs around a JFID Custom Design table made of alderwood with gold-leaf and ebony detailing and fabricated by Cisneros Custom Furniture. The galvanized-gold-and-handblown-glass chandelier is one of a pair by Barovier & Toso from Artistic Tile. (Tour the home)

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

In the dining room, Bec Brittain brass pendant lamps from Brittain’s Shy series read like trapezoid sculptures with thin LED tubes to define the edges. The live-edge table was crafted from guanacaste–a tropical hardwood from Mexico–and seats 24; the curvy ostrich leather Voglauer Spirit chairs are from Anima Domus. (Tour the home)

CHARTREUSE PUNCH

A custom table from Rossi Antiques in San Francisco has a poured-gold finish and is the undisputed centerpiece in the dining room. The homeowners’ chairs were refreshed with green herringbone jacquard fabric from Jerry Pair, while the 1960s Italian chandelier–a composition of suspended glass balls with a brass starburst canopy–is from John Salibello. The hand-painted Porter Teleo Tangled drapery fabric is from David Sutherland. (Tour the home)

SIMPLY SLEEK

Verner Panton dining room chairs from Vitra in New York pull up to a custom table composed of reclaimed wood and painted-metal legs. The oversize light fixture is by Moooi, and the rug is from Azhar’s Oriental Rugs. (Tour the home)

HEATING UP

The interiors combine modern and natural elements in reference to the lakeside setting. (Tour the home)

MELLOW YELLOW

In the dining room, Urban designed the table with a brass-inlaid top crafted by Larrea Studio and a base made by Harris Rubin. It is surrounded by custom Kate dining chairs by Anthony Lawrence Belfair and illuminated by a Charles de Lisle chandelier from The Future Perfect in New York. A painting by Eddie Martinez from New York’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery hangs above the Harris Rubin console from Dennis Miller Associates, also in New York. (Tour the home)

BALANCING ACT

In the dining room, a custom light fixture by Bourgeois Bohème Atelier hangs above a white-oak table by Cassina and chairs designed by Charles and Ray Eames from Design Within Reach. The custom wool rug is from Azadi Fine Rugs. (Tour the home)

BRICK BEAUTY

The brick ceiling infuses the dining room with Spanish Mission-style character. An Ashore Chandeliers light fixture hangs above an Alfonso Marino table and chairs, while Formations cabinets from Dean-Warren flank the fireplace. The reclaimed-walnut floors are from Vintage Hardwoods, and the Paul Ferrante mirrors are from John Brooks Incorporated. (Tour the home)

GATHER ‘ROUND

In the dining room, a dramatic painting by Bedia contrasts the Donghia velvet on the chairs; the chairs and table are by Nuhouse Furniture + Design from Ammon Hickson, and the bowls are by Alexander Lamont. Global Views sconces and a Lindsey Adelman chandelier light the space. Phillip Jeffries’ wallpaper from Holly Hunt clads the ceiling. (Tour the home)

GILDED GLAMOUR

In the dining room, Apparatus’ Cloud 19 chandelier with frosted glass orbs provides a sense of whimsy and illumination. The custom gray-stained walnut table is by Studio Gild, and the brass dining chairs–covered in striped Maharam fabric from Knoll–are from Lawson-Fenning. The polished- lacquer console with a black matte metal frame is by Studio Gild. (Tour the home)

SUBTLE SURPRISES

Custom chairs fabricated by Fede Furniture surround the dining room table made with a top crafted by Bon Vivant Custom Woodworking and columns that were once part of the hidden wine and champagne vaults that ran under the Brooklyn Bridge. The Le Petite Pentagone chandelier is by Jonathan Browning. (Tour the home)

ILLUMINATION

The designer worked with furniture maker Jeff Newell of Newell Design to create a dining table made from solid walnut. She then covered custom Dessin Fournir chairs with a durable fabric from Joseph Noble and placed an antique carpet from Isberian Rug Company underfoot. (Tour the home)