The upstairs meeting room has its first big debut on the internet, which is a lot of pressure for a lady so old and sweet. But with the help of some solid modern furniture and decor, it went from just being old and sweet to being such a pulled-together, cool dining room. With fall around the corner, and – dare I speak the words so soon – the holidays right around that corner, we set it up for a dinner party with casual and elevated fall vibes. If you are readying your house for hosting family, dinner parties, and wanting cozy vibes, today is for you. Get ready for some pretty beautiful fall dining room ideas.

Once we got all the furniture in here, the room just came alive. The deeper tones of the walnut furniture and the creamy oatmeal upholstery were all part of the plan, but it wasn’t til it was all in there that we congratulated ourselves. It looked so good.

Chandelier | Dining Table | Upholstered Dining Chairs | Side Dining Chairs | Rattan Planter

We leaned into fall colors with the darker reds (remember those dishes from the holiday shoot last year at The Carly?). While I don’t usually gravitate so much towards dark red dinnerware, I swear this set has so much power and the shapes are so simple. I used them for Christmas last year, but here you can see they can lean fall so easily too (or Thanksgiving, obviously). I think if they were red and glossy, they would be garish, but the tone is actually really soft, and the finish is muted so it balances really well.

Dining Table | Upholstered Dining Chairs | Side Dining Chairs | Table Lamp

The table is part of the Jacobsen line, which I had eyed at AllModern a lot for the river house (I love the coffee table version), so I was excited to see it in person. It’s so solid, classic, streamlined, but the grain has a lot of integrity. Instead of getting 8 matching chairs, we ordered 6 dining chairs (that are really generous in size) and two upholstered end chairs.

The two cream upholstery fabrics don’t match, which we knew, but I was thrilled to see that they looked really great together. Same with the wood tones – that’s always a bit scary. But once we got it all together, the lack of matching really helped it feel more homey and natural.

The head chairs have wheels and are really comfortable. So are the chairs – they have a generous surface space for your bum and the curve of the chair really cradles your back.

Placemats | Dinnerware | Napkins | Flatware | Wine Glasses | Water Glasses | Candlesticks (similar) | Candlestick Holders | Vase

In this room, all the pinks, mustards, reds, and woods just look so warm and inviting. We were all so delighted with how it came together.

Now this isn’t necessarily the reveal of this room. My job isn’t typical, and we often need to transform rooms into a set to feature furniture and decor, so we try to integrate it into what we will obviously use long term, but this room will function more as a meeting room than a dinner party 🙂

Burgundy Fluted Vase

We ordered two credenzas to go along the back. Now technically these are media units, so they are lower, which we knew. That wall is pretty low, so we didn’t want two massive pieces.

Media Units | Wood Bowl | Glass Bubble Candle | Lamp | Striped Handled Vase

We shoved two together, and it just looked really pulled together. We don’t have a ton of storage needs up here right now. But our plan is to keep the materials that we are currently playing with for very specific projects up here while the rest of the materials and all our props remain in the prop garage. This room is more of a meeting room and a set for shoots like this. But I also wanted Gretchen and Marlee to have a place to put personal items, so we joke that these are their “lockers” and they can keep their things in here. They have shelves and holes for outlets through the back. Super high quality and beautiful, with that super simple lip on the cabinets that gives dimension and keeps it from looking too flat.

We propped it with a lot of AllModern pieces to feature in the shoot (technically they only sponsored a reel but we loved everything so much that we wanted to shoot and post it here, obviously).

Art (vintage) | Mirror (vintage)

Shout out to my bentwood vintage mirror and that gorgeous still-life oil painting that I’ve been hoarding for a while. It finally got its debut 🙂

The first shoot in the guest house is in the books. It was so fun and easy, and we are really excited to start meeting up here and see how this room continues to transform. We love all this dining furniture so much, and we figure in the next few months we’ll work up here when we are together and see how the function of the room shifts as we furnish and decorate the landing and downstairs. More to come, and a huge thanks to AllModern for being a fantastic resource and partner. xx

*Photos by Kaitlin Green