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If you love the rustic decor style but aren’t sure about incorporating it into your current home, your dining room is a great place to start. You can combine elements of rustic charm with contemporary styling for a cohesive look that’s on trend. It’s straightforward to pull a few rustic items into your dining room and mix and match with contemporary pieces, and we’re going to show you how!
The Look: Contemporary Rustic Dining Room
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Veronika’s Blushing // A rustic pipe table with a mix of contemporary and natural bamboo chairs.
Birmingham Home and Garden // Full Chalkboard Wall accented by crown molding and an updated vintage chandelier. Squared wood stumps as stools on one side of the rustic table with a high backed bench on the other.
The Effortless Chic // Reclaimed wood plank wall with rustic gallery-style collage on the adjacent wall. Rustic pipe and wood table with mix and match metal chairs.
Fox Hollow Cottage // Rustic buffet wall with faux wood beam entry. Pair it with bright white for a classic, effortless style.
Handmade’s that will help you get the look:
Tables and Seating
Windgate Lane for Bekob // A live edge table is a vivid addition to rustic contemporary decor. Here it’s paired with acrylic chairs to really complete the contemporary look.
lemon thistle // Here’s another live edge option. This walkthrough shares the how to for sealing cracks and holes to protect from crumbs. The direct steel base is attractive and contemporary.
Our Vintage Home Love // Make a planked tabletop to update any table base you already have.
Saved By Love Creations // Here’s a farmhouse table and benches made using free plans from Ana White.
Rogue Engineer // This X-brace bench would be well fitted at a farmhouse table or for extra seating.
Over the Big Moon // A boxy entryway bench is the well fitted mix of rustic and contemporary. Picture this next to your wood plank table!
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More great options:
Rustic Faux Reclaimed Wood Countertops
straightforward Custom Farmhouse Signs
10 Magnolia Market Looks to Handmade
If you love the rustic decor style but aren’t sure about incorporating it into your current home, your dining room is a great place to start. You can combine elements of rustic charm with contemporary styling for a cohesive look that’s on trend. It’s straightforward to pull a few rustic items into your dining room and mix and match with contemporary pieces, and we’re going to show you how!
The Look: Contemporary Rustic Dining Room
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Buffets and sideboards
Shabby French for Me // Here’s a rustic wood sofa table that could easily be used as a buffet, and we have a very similar building plan right here.
Dear Lillie // This cross-beam sideboard is well fitted for a rustic dining room.
Urban Patina // Upcycle a Dresser and add a lower shelf to make a well fitted sideboard!
Chapel Cottage Chicks // This farmhouse buffet with shelves adds a ton of storage and visual interest.
Shelving
My Patch of Blue Sky // Upcycled a fence post into small display shelves.
Making it in the Mitten // Create chunky floating wood shelves like these to display dishes or china.
House of Hawthornes // These floating pipe shelves were installed in a bathroom, but they’d be well fitted over a buffet.
Making Joy and Pretty Things // Farmhouse corbel shelves use vintage corbels and reclaimed barn wood for an authentic touch.
kitchn // Live edge floating wood shelves are vivid and make a huge statement on a dining room wall.
Next up, more contemporary rustic dining room options –>
In this post:
Page 1 // Page 2 // Page 3
More great options:
Rustic Faux Reclaimed Wood Countertops
straightforward Custom Farmhouse Signs
10 Magnolia Market Looks to Handmade
If you love the rustic decor style but aren’t sure about incorporating it into your current home, your dining room is a great place to start. You can combine elements of rustic charm with contemporary styling for a cohesive look that’s on trend. It’s straightforward to pull a few rustic items into your dining room and mix and match with contemporary pieces, and we’re going to show you how!
The Look: Contemporary Rustic Dining Room
In this post:
Page 1 // Page 2 // Page 3
Lighting
Enjoying the direct Things // This stir stick drum shade is an excellent way to repurpose an old light into something wooden, rustic and fabulous on the low-cost.
Twenty8Divine // You can easily convert a recessed ceiling light into a boxed pendant feature with some wood and mason jars.
Noting Grace for Bekob // Use pallet wood to make a light box that can alter a cluster of pendant lights into the configuration you need.
The Summery Umbrella for Bekob // Turn an old vanity light from a bathroom into a mason jar chandelier with just a few materials.
Love, Create, Celebrate // With a bundle of 2×2’s you can make a striking wood frame pendant light.
Wall Treatments, etc.
Addison’s Wonderland // This Stickwood wood panel ceiling looks like you spent a ton of time nailing wood planks up, but really they are thin wood tiles that are peel and stick!
DIYFun // A Faux Reclaimed wood accent wall is a great way to add rustic charm. You don’t need old wood, because you can buy inexpensive boards and age them yourself.
Shanty2Chic // If you like the reclaimed wood look, but don’t want to commit to an entire wall, try a wood plank half wall like this one. Top if off with some molding and paint it white for a shiplap feel.
Lovely Etc. // For a wood plank wall with a twist, try staining and dry brushing different stain and paint colors. Watch that feature wall pop!
Decor
Her Tool Belt for Bekob // Make your own vintage inspired corbels – used under an island, shelf or table, or mounted in an entryway – add an old world rustic vibe.
Cozy, Stylish, Chic // Birch branch candlesticks are a warm and cozy centerpiece.
Sawdust 2 Stitches for Bekob // A wall cubby is the well fitted place to add all those little details in a completed dining room.
Angela Marie Made // Easily transfer designs and quotes onto wood plaques for homey, rustic touch.
Love Grows Wild // Make a wooden trough box to serve as a centerpiece.
What’s your go-to rustic decor element?
