9 Great Ideas For Separating Living And Dining Rooms

You don't always want to use the open living and dining room as such. Fortunately, there are numerous cool ideas and ways to separate your dining room—at least temporarily and if desired. Today we would like to give you a few ideas for inspiration because you can elegantly separate the living room and dining room. Do you prefer a living room with a dining table or a dining room with a sofa or do you want to separate the living room from the dining room? If you want to visually separate your living and dining room, you should read on now. So it's best to take a look now and let our room dividers convince you.

By the way, the kitchen and living room can also be cleverly separated from each other. In this idea book you will learn how to do it: How can I separate the kitchen from the living room?

Of course: the living room is a place for peace and relaxation. But many of us can also relax with television, radio or Blu-ray. We just don't always want to see all the multimedia devices. In our first example, a beautiful piece of furniture made of high-quality wood divides the space between the dining room and the lounge. But this cupboard does not offer any storage space for anything. Because here there is space for video and audio devices, receivers and game consoles, which are discreetly hidden. Only the large flat screen indicates that there is more behind the wooden facade.

To divide a room into two different areas, we don't always need a physical element such as a wall, a shelf or a massive cupboard. Our second example clearly shows that separation can also be created with the help of different designs. The dining room has a more rounded look in subtle colours. In the living area, however, we notice dark, stylish lounge furniture with straight lines and edges. Shapes, colours and decoration are common elements used to structure rooms. This look can also be created with different wall wallpapers. Try!

Admittedly, an idea like this cannot be implemented overnight. Because this requires a bit of spatial planning activity. And there should also be an appropriate height in the room. Nevertheless: The brick and then plastered arches come into their own in this room. While the kitchen bar and dining table are located on one side, the living area peeks through the arches—and all of this on a uniform, dreamy tiled floor that brings everything together again into a unit.

Those of us who can look forward to a cosy spot next to a roaring fire in winter can count ourselves lucky. Such a fireplace is even more effective if it is located in the middle of the open living room and separates the dining and living rooms. In our opinion, an effective and decorative border was set here. The Victorian table and chairs go great with the fireplace. Stately!

When we talk about open-plan living areas, we often mean a room or hall that is on one floor. But that doesn't always have to be the case. A room on the ground floor can also be wonderfully located with a gallery on the next floor up—provided that the different floors are connected in height.

For us, curtains belong on windows, if at all, so that we can protect ourselves from prying eyes in the evening. But curtains are also an interesting solution for subtly separating two rooms from each other—without completely closing the border. The advantage of this rather cost-effective solution is that the curtain can be easily opened for a large common room or discreetly closed as soon as more privacy is desired.

Sometimes we don't need a lot of separation to accentuate two living areas. A simple sculpture, a collection of pictures, or a musical instrument can help highlight different corners of the room. Our seventh example is very elegant. Here, a black high-gloss sash supports the spatial separation. With a little imagination, we all probably have something in the house that can perform such a function, right?

Especially in modern households, people make life very easy and use a piece of furniture as a room divider. Depending on how open or closed the look should be in the end, chests of drawers, cupboards, sofas or bookshelves can be integrated. Advantage: If we get creative and want to redecorate, the room dividers can be easily moved, removed or rearranged.

Finally, we researched a classic. Kitchen islands or counters are always a special highlight in open living areas. While they usually separate the kitchen and dining room, our experts have placed the counter so vertically to the kitchen that it also divides dining and living. We can hardly decide whether we want to sit at the bar, at the chic café table or on the elegant Chippendale sofa in the background.