Your dining room is a great place for family meals and you need it to have a great design theme. But when your space is small, it can be an arduous task to have it looking appealing. Luckily, there are many interior design tips for decorating small dining rooms.

You should plan to be positive to decorate for the size of your space. You may also want to make sure to design in a sufficient amount of storage space so you can properly put items away as clutter will make even a large dining room look cramped.

Consider keeping your furniture in the medium to small size range. Using a table with leaves, instead of a huge dining table, might make all the difference in space, yet still allow additional seating when necessary. But you don't have to use all small pieces in your dining room, choosing some larger accessories will add interest and drama to the room, so you might use the small table but also match it with a large mirror or server, which not only adds some drama, but also gives off the feeling that the room is bigger than it actually is.

Another trick for decorating a small dining room is to take into consideration where the furniture and accessories are going to be in the space. Using the principles of Feng Shui in your dining room serves to help bring harmony to your area. Be positive your furniture is not placed near the doorways because this can truly open up the space. Plus, if you can focus the eye on the larger pieces like a server or mirror, it can help the room appear less small.

Think of elements you might add to your decorating scheme which will help to make good use of space in the dining room. Think about styles that allow for lots of baskets and shelving because these can be used as extra storage. Because this is where you will be eating lots of meals you ought to be sure to choose a room design you delight in.

One important piece of making your dining room look sizeable is the color palette. You don't have to only use lighter colored paint color when making up for the size in a room. If you prefer to look at deep or bright colors in your dining room you can get color without making the room look even smaller if you go for a monochromatic palette, or one where the colors are an equal intensity. So you might even go for all blue gray, or stick to high intensity colors in the same range such as orange, yellow and red. Painting one of the walls a deep color will make it feel further away, thus adding depth to the room. To make your walls recede, and therefore the room appearing more spacious paint them with pale hues. If gray isn't your choice of hue, you could also decorate with cool colors like greens and blues which will yield the same impression.

So there you have it, decorating a small dining room can be easy. Merely because your dining room is less spacious doesn't mean it can't possess the same fabulous interior design style you see in designer rooms - it simply involves a bit of unique creativity.