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Bove emphasizes the importance of a dining room having multiple purposes instead of just one.

Bove explains how it’s important to choose durable materials.

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Bove explains how dining rooms are becoming opportunities to go bold with color or with statement-making furnishings.

One way to add instant color to your dining space is through art.

However, by no means does this statement mean that you have to leave your dining room walls blank.

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“I prefer when a dining room feels collected,” Bratt says.

To achieve this look, considervisiting secondhand storesin search of an array of pieces that speak to you.

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