10 Foolproof Ways to Mix Up Your Dining Chairs

Shaking up the traditional matched dining set is a great way to personalize your dining room. The flexibility of mixing and matching can even save you some cash, since you aren’t tied to buying a full set of identical chairs — but it does take some finesse to get it right. Here are 10 dining chair combinations that strike the right balance between eclectic and pulled together.

1. High-backed bench on one side, folding chairs on the other. The casual vibe of simple café-style folding chairs is balanced here by a comfortable upholstered settee on the other side and slipcovered chairs at the ends. If you already have a stately, traditional piece (like this settee), folding café chairs can make it feel more casual — plus they are easy on the budget.

2. Different chairs, same color. Sort of like the trend in bridesmaids’ dresses to have the ladies pick their own dresses as long as they are in the same hue, mixing and matching chair shapes is easy when you match the color. It does help to choose chairs in the same general style (modern, traditional) to keep them feeling like a set.

3. Different chairs, same upholstery. Unify a group of lovely chairs, old or new, by having them re-covered in the same fabric. In the dining room featured here, three different pairs of chairs were all covered in similar fabric to create a “set.”

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10 Foolproof Ways to Mix Up Your Dining Chairs