30+ Ideas for Contemporary Rustic Dining Room Inspiration
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 easy 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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Lighting
Enjoying the Simple Things // This stir stick drum shade is an excellent way to repurpose an old light into something wooden, rustic and fabulous on the cheap.
Twenty8Divine // You can easily convert a recessed ceiling light into a boxed pendant feature with some wood and mason jars.
Noting Grace for Remodelaholic // 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 Remodelaholic // 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 Remodelaholic // 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 Remodelaholic // A wall cubby is the perfect 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 favorite rustic decor element?
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Kimberly Mueller is the “me” over at bugaboo, mini, mr & me, a blog that highlights her creative endeavors. She especially likes to share kid crafts, sewing attempts, recipes, upcycled projects, photography and free printable gift tags/cards. When she’s not enjoying being married to her best friend, chasing after the natives (AKA her three kids) and attempting to keep the house in one piece, you can find her with a glue gun in one hand and spray paint in the other. Aside from DIY pursuits, she also enjoys writing, reading, music, singing (mostly in the shower) and the color yellow. Kimberly recently published a craft book entitled Modern Mod Podge. You can also find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Bloglovin’ and Instagram.
