Data-rich article setting out tables, charts and photo examples of the most popular dining room designs based on style, wall color and floor-type.
While you definitely want your own design stamp on your dining room, sometimes it helps to see what’s popular today to get you moving with your own inspiration.
This post is a numbers post, breaking down three key dining room design attributes: style, wall color and floor type.
The first section is a series of charts illustrating the percentage of dining rooms that incorporate the respective design elements.
The second section provides a table setting out more dining room design statistics… combining various features to provide percentages for various combinations of the more popular attributes.
What’s the point of doing this?
I’m a bit of a numbers guy so I think statistics are interesting, not only in design but many aspects of life.
I also think that while it’s super helpful to get design inspiration from photographs and galleries, it can also help to look at the data to see what people are really doing. You can look at hundreds or thousands of photos, but still not get a real sense of what are the predominant design elements. That said, you don’t necessarily want to choose your design elements based on statistics either. This type of analysis is just part of the process of putting your dining room design together.
More statistics:
- 1% of dining rooms are contemporary with white walls AND have medium hardwood floor. This is not very precise because of different totals for each attribute data set; however, even if off by a few percentage points, it does illustrate that when filtering designs to include all 3 of the most popular features, it results in a very small percentage of overall dining room designs.
- 12% of contemporary dining rooms have white walls.
- 6.5% of contemporary dining rooms have medium hardwood floors.
The most popular flooring for dining rooms is medium hardwood, followed by dark hardwood and rounding out third place is light hardwood. Hardwood is clearly the most popular floor material for dining rooms. It’s not even close.
These statistics were taken from a data set of 97,086 dining rooms.
