If you have a small living space and need extra space for other activities, did you know you can employ some multi-use dining room ideas? Of course, your dining room is almost always an eating space that you hardly use except when you have friends and family over. However, even after dining, you may need some space for some games or to sit and read, away from the bustle of your other relations during the holidays.
These multi-use dining room ideas will give you options that have eluded you for some time. Some of them convert your dining space into a fun space by introducing a multifunctional table that can serve as a game table and a dining table when the need arises. Others add some convenient furniture, such as sleeper sofa and armchair.
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Here are some creative multi-purpose room ideas that you can use to make your dining area function as more than just an eating area.
Creative Multi Use Dining Room Ideas
Your dedicated space for eating that is your dining room can serve more than that purpose. Using some creative design ideas, you can make that space into a multi-purpose space that can serve you and your guests, regardless of whether you’re to host a formal dining event or a family and friends get-together.
Multi-use dining room ideas you can use include:
Dining Room and Workspace Combo
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One of the ways to make your dining space more useful and multi-purpose is to use it as an office space. For example, one of the chairs surrounding your dining table will serve as your office chair while the table becomes your working table. Also, you can host a meeting right there as you have extra seating for your guests.
You can have a bookshelf installed on the dining room wall, either as built-in bookcases or a free-standing bookshelf to make the area livelier. You may prefer natural lighting for your working space, or you can install task lights over the dining table.
Home Library Dining Room
For those in the habit of snacking or sipping beverages while they read, this may be the perfect area of the house for you. Convert your seldom-used dining space into a reading area or home library. Install a sofa and let the dining tables and chairs remain in the area. You can cover the floor space with a rug.
On the wall, the closes you can get to a white wall is one or more bookshelves. They can have built-in drawers and furniture style that agrees with the already existing dining table and chairs. You should pay attention to the lighting; an overhead light over the dining table is perfect.
Dining Room With Built-in Storage and Bench Seats
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A small home does not necessarily stop you from having that square footage of eclectic style dining area, especially for special occasions. A dining table partly surrounded by single chairs and bench seats that meet at a corner of the wall will partly provide that. You can complete the setup with built-in storage on the wall for your dining wares. Because our dining area is small, the wall storage may not accommodate all your dining wares, which is why the bench seats sometimes have built-in drawers.
For visual interest and interior design, try to match the storage shelf, bench seat drawers, and the walls to the same color tones on the color palettes.
Living Room – Dining Room Combo
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Your dining area does not have to be extravagant in style; it can share from the style you have infused in your living room. So while you enjoy a good meal, you can easily see and hear the entertainment in the living room, meaning you’re not left out when you’re eating, and your family and friends are having fun in the living room.
With armchairs made of quality material around a circular dining table, your long living room will serve as dining and living rooms. With a bookcase that also serves as a TV console, sofas that have a similar color tone to the walls, and the same rug on the floor space of the living and dining area, you have a space that serves multi-purposes – dining and living.
Dining Room or Reading Area
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The dining room in some homes is close to the living room and the kitchen, but many have their meals in the kitchen, and the dining room and its furniture rarely see any use. You can make the dining room a place you use by making it function as a reading room. While you may not install large bookcases, simple bookshelves that hold some books will do.
With the dining table, round and deep-colored, and the chairs around it bearing the same color as the walls and the bookshelf, you have successfully made your dining area serve as a reading area when it is not being used for serving sumptuous meals. Overhead lighting and art walls also make the setup complete and pleasing to the eyes, complementing the general home décor.
Dining Room and Bedroom Combo
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Why will anyone want to sleep in the dining room? No one ever plans to, but it can be the only available space in the house when an overnight visitor comes around. Since you want to be a good host, your visitor must pass the night comfortably. If you’re short on bed space in your home, having a sleeping sofa that can double as a bench seat, probably without built-in storage, will be efficient.
While the sofa provides extra seating space at the dining table, it is a comfortable sleeping space when it’s time to call it a night. Also, the sofa may function as an open book chair, where you can store and retrieve some books when the dining room is not being used for hosting dinners.
Dining Room to Fun and Games Space
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Sometimes, after dining with friends and family, you begin to wonder what fun activity you can all do to pass the time, probably till the next meal, but you only settle for activities you have always done and have lost its fun. With a convertible dining table, you can have fun games right where you just had food.
Converting your dining table to a ping pong table is one of the many ways you can turn your dining area into a game room. Install the demarcating net, bring out the bat and plastic ball, and let the games begin.
Also, you can have a 3-in-1 multigame table as your dining table. You can dine and play table games such as pool, ping pong, and table soccer with it. You can easily swivel the top of the table to serve your desired purpose.
Dining Room and Free Area Combo
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There is always that part of the house where you can pass the time. When not used for dining, your dining area must have sometimes served that purpose. The free area of your home does not need more than the essential furniture such as chairs and a table. However, it is common to find a wall mirror and some books in this part of the house.
Your dining area can function as the free area of the house when you have these pieces of furniture there. When there’s no feast happening there, anyone can sit at the table, pick a book from the shelf, and read, or get a good look at their face in the mirror. Using the dining area for this purpose removes the otherwise strict and limited use of that part of the house for having meals.
Dining Room and Shelf Combo
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You may find no dining room in some homes, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a dedicated space for dining. It is economical, space-wise, to have a multifunctional dining table. Some dining tables can double as a shelf and are conveniently placed next to the wall, where they carry some art for home décors, such as a painting or house plant.
The dining table can be extricated from the shelf when the need arises, and otherwise, free chairs are placed around the table for dining. After use, the extension is returned to the shelf, and the space is free once again.
Final Thought
The dining room is one of the least used parts in many homes. Dining furniture accumulates dust and is redundant, but they don’t have to be. Your dining room can be revitalized if you make them serve other purposes in the house, such as a reading room, game room, office space, and many more. However, note that you need to use the right furniture for the purpose you have for your dining room.
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